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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 20–34.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... The rendering of fascism as monstrous is less interesting than the connection of insensitivity to the Pacto del Olvido (Pact of Forgetting) and its suppression of painful memory. The fact that the children speak Catalan is a significant overlooked aspect, because Catalonia was the last region to succumb...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 61–73.
Published: 01 September 2009
..." seems striking, at first, for its overt contradictions, but it is in fact a fairly typical text in its genre, exemplary fo r revealing tw o persistent tropes w ithin midVictorian pseudoscientific handbooks. After marketing their usefulness as reasonably scien­ tific solutions for social confusion...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 95–107.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of pseudoscience comes to light only when one understands that it is not science; similarly, the meaning of art emerges from our understanding that it is not life, but the criticism or negation of life. The truth o f art is in its denial or rejection of facts. In Herbert Marcuse's words, "Fiction calls the facts...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 189–195.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to revive the so-called (or Sokal-ed) science wars.The aim o f that m om ent falsely pitted social construc­ tionism against science. Social constructionism is self-limited and inaccurate if it implies that social facts may be entirely dissociated from biological facts. We seek instead, for their mutual...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 March 2013
... ideas about factuality and objective reporting. In the late 1840s, only a few years after facts and stories transm itted by telegraph first began appear­ ing in the British and American press, a telegraphic dateline in a newspaper could already convey a sense o f "authenticity" and truth even when...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 December 2002
... o k s four practical jokes because of the obvious transformative effect it has on H uck s thinking and atti­ tude toward both Jim and civilization.1 But it is also one o f the most m em orable because of one of its principal features the 48 English Language Notes unusual herpetological fact...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 79–87.
Published: 01 March 2002
... their thoughts with hum orous whimsy (McGinley 22). This interaction, the rhetoric itself rath e r than its content, is what attracts the interlocutors to Roarty s, night after night. They take pleasure in the fact th a t no one knew the answ ers (McGinley 43), that the rhetoric is em pty rhetoric...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 23–28.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., some of the things once thought to be sources have been challenged Goran Stanivukovic, for instance, argues that Dream was in fact not in­ fluenced by Golding.2 What does remain undeniable is the in­ fluence of Thomas Mouffet s Of the Silkeworms, and their Flies', indeed Muir argued that Shakespeare...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 82–85.
Published: 01 June 2001
... (81 ). O ne can quibble with a couple of points in the Othello chapter. A dding to growing critical opinion that D esdem ona is exasperating (168), Kerrigan muses th at she might have asked Emilia about the handkerchief (170); in fact she does, at the beginning o f Act 3, scene four. And K errigan...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 9–14.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Today, conflicts law has become largely a matter of private international transactions.5 Dicta. Literally, things said; and, in law, reported and later remembered, despite their osten­ sibly being tangential or extraneous to the determ ination o f the matter at hand. Fact and law. A way o f dividing up...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 March 2010
... yth in g h appening on the screen. In fact, m uch critica l ink has been sp ille d d is­ cussing h o rro r film fa n do m and its social o rg a n iza tio n around co m p e te n ce and expertise in know ing the rules o f the genre, and thus in accounting fo r pre d icta b ility in a variety o f ways...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 93–96.
Published: 01 December 2005
... as the Master and Commander series. Although O Brian s novels principally deal with relation­ ships between men aboard ship, many critics have noticed the similarities between O Brian s work and Jane Austen s. This is based not only upon the fact that O Brian s novels principally take place during...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2002
... is founded; and the water represents the fluid, femi­ nin e elem ent against which th a t m asculinity always needs redefining. The symbol is in fact so m em orable th at it is often ap propriated by athletic teams an d military recruiters as an expression of what in keeping with the image of the hand par­...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 53–61.
Published: 01 September 2003
... would raise in view of the fact that Allegra was illegitimate. In fact, there was a strict social protocol regarding the burial of those from different classes. The fact that Allegra was illegiti­ mate decreased her rank. Joshua Scodel discusses eighteenthcentury social distinctions in The English...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 71–83.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Tourgée, was a staunch supporter of Teddy Roosevelt and his argum ent for increased power for the federal government. In fact, also unlike most Southerners, Dixon was an ardent im perialist, and his Reconstruction trilo gy was written in part to support Roosevelt's im perialist policies, policies...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 59–70.
Published: 01 March 2009
... literature, there is no reason to assume that the material we look at should be exclusively defined by the juris­ dictional borders o f that nation. It makes sense to tease apart the two, in fact, to make the form er not parasitic on the latter, and not coinciding w ith it. The syllabus even for, say...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 149–166.
Published: 01 September 2009
... a quaint nomenclature cobbled together out of eastern mysticism and Freud, Osman w ill claim that the "cathexis" is channeling outward energy that needs to be turned inward, "to be enlisted in the forces of healing." But the fact is that he and the old woman, his mother, dislike emotional display, being...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2013
... lim p Our title fo r this special issue is a pun. We announce this fact because so many people w ith whom we have corresponded or to whom we have spoken did not get it. The fault is no doubt ours. Good puns do not require explanation. Nonetheless, this failure is surprising, given that our...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the organizers of Dickens’s reading tour that it was in fact “a stupid forgery.” All these events—the letter itself, the letter denying its authenticity, and responses to the denial—became fodder for more press reports, discussing among other issues Dickens’s consistent support for printers...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 167–187.
Published: 01 September 2014
... centre o f the African coast.12 Historical and m em orial claim s coexist uneasily. The UNESCO heritage narrative is am b iva­ lent about facts: factual claim s are essential to W orld Heritage site status, yet the substance o f those claim s are im pervious to the m arshalling of factual evidence...