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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 83–95.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Miriam Chirico A History of African American Theatre . Edited by Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . Pp. 608. hc. $130.00 0-521-62443-6. African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader . Edited by Harry...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Kwame Holmes Christina B. Hanhardt , Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence ( Chapel Hill : Duke University Press , 2014 ). Copyright © 2015 Regents of the University of Colorado 2015 B o o k R e v ie w : C h r i s t i n a B. H anhardt, S a fe S pa c e...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of historical trauma? How might they function as prosthetic memories, at once disturbing and informative to readers who might otherwise not be exposed to those histories at all? What are the ethical implications of horror elicited by fictional representations of historical suffering? This article engages...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
... thematization of uncanny spatial violations as indexing a minimally acknowledged guilt over the war in Iraq. The novel’s slippages in self-awareness not only point to an avoidance of its own scotomized history but also foreground the shifting boundaries and dispersed locations of textual self-consciousness...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Steve Sussman; Erika Wright Abstract This essay seeks to illuminate the shifting definitions of addiction over time by providing a brief, anecdotal history of addiction as well as a review of how it has been conceptualized by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM classification system. While...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 40–50.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Kelly L. Bezio Abstract This essay explores the potential for literary history to be useful as a part of epidemiological sleuthing. It considers how an imperative to employ social determinants of health frameworks incites movement away from epidemiological plots, particularly the forward trajectory...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 September 2007
... from self evident. It is neither "o ur history," nor is it a recovery o f the hidden lives o f those w ho eventu­ ally came to be "us," tw o themes that marked much of the early days o f gay and lesbian his­ tory. First, because in the rich w orld o f homosex London during the forty years that follow...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 5–13.
Published: 01 September 2008
... (1799-1846), a Genovese schoolmaster and university lecturer w ho wrote seven complete illustrated books, as "re inve ntin g" Hogarth's tableaus in term s of sequential narrative, and thus as the father of the graphic novel.3This history parallels the second m ajor theme, term inology, which begins w...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (2): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Village History, Native Village of Afognak (2004), httpwww.afognak.org/education/history_chapter1.php (Accessed May 16, 2016). 19 Nancy Yaw Davis, The Effects o f the 1964 Alaska Earthquake, Tsunami, and Resettlement on Two Koniag Eskimo Villages, Doctoral Dissertation (Seattle: University of W ashington...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... This inaugural volum e of the new ELN takes on the so-called ReligiousTurn over the last decade in the study o f literary history. As Stanley Fish remarked in a widely-cited piece published early in 2005 in the Chronicle o f Higher Education, the academic study o f reli­ gion is now "w here the action...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 65–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
... in a vexed relatio n to history. A sse rtin g its claim s on m od e rn ity and the present, the colony on the verge o f not being one m ust bear th e b u rd e n so m e w e ig h t o f th e past, th e p o w e r o f its o w n cu rre n cy as to ke n o f a p rim itiv e , archaic prehistory.The African colony...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Joan Lord Hall Shakespeare's Serial History Plays . By Nicholas Grene . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . Pp. 278. hc. $60.00 . 0-521-77341-5. Copyright © 2003 Regents of the University of Colorado 2003 September 2003 83 BOOK REVIEWS Shakespeare s Serial History...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 27–50.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Diego Saglia Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 June 2004 27 TELLING ROMANTIC TALES: HISTORY AND ROMANTICPERIOD ICONS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY If the past is generally a n o th e r country in th e Englishlanguage literary tradition, it features as a distinctly...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 79.
Published: 01 March 2005
... on the s o -c a lled R e ligio u s Turn in the study of literary history over the last decade, from the preoccupation among medievalists with vernacular th e o lo g y to the fascination with the topoi of conversion in p ostcolonial studies. Position papers, notes, essays, and pro v o c a tio n s...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 104.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... T h e in au g ural volume of the new ELN (44.1, March 2006) will ta ke on the s o - c a l l e d R e l i g i o u s Turn in the study of literary history over the last decade, from the preoccupation among m edievalists with ve rn a cu la r th eology" to the fa s cin a t io n with the topoi of c o n v...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 92.
Published: 01 September 2005
...) will ta ke on the s o -c alle d R e ligio u s Turn in the study of literary history over the last decade, from the preoccupation among medievalists with v ernacular th e o lo g y to the fascination with the topoi of conversion in p ostcolonial studies. Position papers, notes, essays, and p ro v o c...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Matthew Steggle Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 30 English Language Notes WALTER SCOT S TRUE H ISTORY AND JO H N TAYLOR THE WATER-POET Captain Walter Scot of Satchells (b. 1613, d. in or after 1688) wrote a single volume of poetry, A True History ofSeveral...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 283–290.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Jean Gallagher Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 E p is o d e s in t h e H ist o ry of P h o t o g r a p h y J ean G a lla g h e r The Early History o f Photography The firs t photographer's sister spent the sum m er watching the leaf-im prints disappear. Just like...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 259–265.
Published: 01 September 2006
... that W atten poses in the text of Bad History, a little explication o f the photo is apposite. During the first G ulf War, Rovner used a Polaroid camera to take photographs of news reports on a te le visio n she w atched in her a p a rtm e n t in M an h a tta n .T h e re su ltin g sh o ts are am orphous...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 140–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Maxwell Uphaus Abstract This essay proposes, through an analysis of T. S. Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages,” a model for the study of the sea in modernism based on British modernism’s relationship with the contemporaneous idea that the sea was the essence of British history. “The Dry Salvages” rejects...