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Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 1. The knight’s campaigns in Chaucer’s General Prologue. © 2019, Mappa Mundi Cartography.
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 26–38.
Published: 01 March 2003
... for th e assessm ent o f G alland s translation. 14H awari 153. 15W eitzman 1843. 16W eitzman 1846. I GENERALLY FLY MYSELF ; THE DELICATE EGO OF LAURENCE STERNE S SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY? Wallace Stevens defined sentimentality as a failure o f em o tion, 1 and though his p o in t of reference...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 74–77.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Dennis Sobolev Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 74 English Language Notes QUIDDITAS: GENERIC IDENTITY IN HOPKINS S POETRY T he first quatrain o f the famous octave o f H opkins s sonnet As kingfishers catch fire sketches o u t a fragm entary picture...
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 6. The Pandemic: art by Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn, text generated collectively, edited by Mimi Khúc and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis. This tarot card was collectively created in the culminating event of the UCI Center for Medical Humanities’s 2020–21 Open in Emergency Series curated by Mimi Khúc
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 114–126.
Published: 01 October 2019
...-century representations convey the passing on of Holocaust memory to the next generation. These individuals, in the role of offspring or carers, act as the investigators and inheritors of a history that either has vanished from the survivor’s memory or appears in the present as if it were still taking...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2019
... down . . . from generation to generation” and tarry in the present. Burney frames the trace as an afterlife of an event that cannot be quite integrated into the broader scope of “history” as such but which leaves behind profound formal remainders. Burney’s dedication thus theorizes how to read Romantic...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 132–144.
Published: 01 April 2020
... California’s Sierra Nevada several thousand years ago. The article also provides a general contextualization of the themes of the text in relation to California and western North American coyote stories and origins stories more generally. Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020...
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in The Past Embedded in Everyday Life: The Meseta del Collao as an Illustrative Case
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Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 2. Central bas-relief of the monolith door of the sun gate at Tiwanaku, designed by Charles Wiener, as it appears in Puerta del Sol, located in the present-day Bolivian municipality of Tiwanaku. There are many controversies about the date of this work, but the general consensus is circa
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 167–171.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Noah Eli Gordon Abstract In Praise of the Fake Memoir: Delusion and deception are not generally considered admirable qualities for memoirists, but should a memoir be considered without literary value simply because the author is delusional or a fraud? Can we separate moral assessments of an author...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Kerry Reilly Abstract In Praise of the Fake Memoir: Delusion and deception are not generally considered admirable qualities for memoirists, but should a memoir be considered without literary value simply because the author is delusional or a fraud? Can we separate moral assessments of an author...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... This article argues that the ascent is accomplished through pressing on the eyeball to generate phosphenes and associated entoptic phenomena. The stimulation of the eye’s inner light has been associated with shamanic practices and mystical experience as well as commented on by such thinkers as Plotinus, Albert...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... these questions through the reading of Mo Hayder’s 2004 novel The Devil of Nanking . Hayder exploits horror’s appeal and also—by foregrounding the acts of representation, reading, and spectatorship that generate this response—opens that process to critique. The novel may productively be understood as a work...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the Calvinist John Downame to the regicide John Cook deployed the category of the drunkard to critique not only English drinking habits but also social and economic practices more generally. In pushing the concept so hard, however, reformers inevitably rubbed against more conventional notions of “civil society...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Abstract In Praise of the Fake Memoir: Delusion and deception are not generally considered admirable qualities for memoirists, but should a memoir be considered without literary value simply because the author is delusional or a fraud? Can we separate moral assessments...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
... seafaring literature and broaden our understandings of modernism generally. By way of illustration the essay examines the British author James Hanley’s 1938 novel Hollow Sea , which centers on a merchant ship turned troopship during World War I. In its staging of maritime technologies and infrastructures...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 143–150.
Published: 01 October 2019
... reduction, of different histories of oppression. The national signifier of caste appropriates the global form of the graphic narrative. The spatial rhetorics of the graphic page enable Dalit memories to locate themselves in the global memory landscape. Together, these generate a “concentrationary imaginary...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a generative tension between the imperial national forms the author encountered in North Africa and the Black nationalist vision of Marcus Garvey’s Back-to-Africa campaign. Reading the dialectics of bad nationalisms and Black internationalisms, the article explores how the utopian promise for Black liberation...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 36–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
...) and tā moko (face), for Māori “wearing ink” is about memory, as it “claims dominion and understanding across generations, across time, across space. Across lives.” As visual representations of life, life journey, kinship, and death, moko has been described as a “technology of memory” and taonga tuku iho...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 124–142.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., the coffeehouse, and the theater (also homes and the union hall). These Cuban (and Spanish and Italian) cultural and social values were passed on from one generation to the next within the community, and even to non-Cubans, via reverse assimilation. The outcome was an ethnic American social identity whose impact...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... against Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo (1929), offers one of the most sustained, nuanced representations of queer life in McKay’s archive and in early twentieth-century LGBT literature more generally, one in which same-sex-oriented characters are rendered as normal, integral figures in urban life rather...
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