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Iron Man's Heart
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 197–206.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in that setting? For whom and to whom is medical narrative written? Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 W illia m K ü s k in 19 7 Iron Man's Heart W il l ia m K u s k in I'm zip p in g th ro u g h the days at lig h tn in g speed. Plug in, flu sh out, and fire the fu c k in ' feed...
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The Ironic Hercules Reference in Death of a Salesman
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 73–77.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... 42 Ibid., 42. 43See fo r instance th e to u r in France in July 1841, Letters, 1.37-45, w here Dr. A rnold was accom panied bo th by M atthew an d T hom as A rn o ld the younger. 44 MS ARNOLD 1, f.2. 45 Ibid. THE IRONIC HERCULES REFERENCE IN DEATH OFA SALESMAN A lthough n o t an educated, erudite...
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Maritime Optics in Sea-War Fiction between the Wars
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., Hanley’s text ironizes the literary trope and geopolitical concept of the “free sea” from an interwar perspective. The novel’s particular mode of hydro-criticism manifests in its formal challenges to both the war optics of the British state and the optics of a major modernist writer of the seas, Joseph...
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Owen's Antiphonal Response to Tradition: Etymology and Genre in “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 166–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
... anthem is structured antiphonally. There are two andphonal voices in Decem ber 2005 167 Anthem for Doomed Youth : the consolatory voice of conven tional pieties and ceremonies, and an ironic voice mocking con vention. Both the octave and the sestet are structured antiphonally: each opens...
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The Significance of the Sotherton Episode in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 57–66.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and say more than they mean. The words spoken by the members of the novel s main families, the Bertrams and the Crawfords, are full of double meanings and unknown significance. Austen uses the two main scenes at Sotherton, in the chapel and at the iron gate of the ha-ha, to illustrate certain character...
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The Oceanic South
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
...— Foe (1986) and Age of Iron (1990)—imagine drifting “southward” to the “bleak winter-waters of the most neglected of oceans.” 13 Cast as inhuman and ahistorical, the Southern Ocean appears to offer a retreat from the tyranny of the times. But in these works, as well as in the more extended...
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From Social Consciousness to Cosmic Awareness: Superhero Comic Books and the Culture of Self-Interrogation, 1968–1974
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 155–174.
Published: 01 September 2008
...? I've spent a lifetim e defending the flag . . . and the law. Perhaps . . . I should have battled less . . . and questioned more."12 Iron Man too went through a post-1968 political conversion. As Marvel's m ost hawkish superhero, literally forged in the jungle battlefields ofVietnam , Iron Man (a.k.a...
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On Ideal Suggestions and the Paintings of Matthias Grünewald
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 96–100.
Published: 01 November 2024
... be clarified through the medium of the outer eye engraving a secret on the tablet. Gravitation is this vast atmosphere in which we live, where the earth, saturated with iron oxide, is red. Let us say thought messages sent in any direction come back. They are like light in mirrors. Opposites vanish. Lower forms...
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The Death of d'Artagnan: Dumas' Realistic Musketeers
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 41–50.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The consolation will not work: Raoul willjoin a suicide mission in Algeria, and Athos, deprived of his beloved son, will wither away and die. But meanwhile a blame game will be played. In The King and Nobility (The Iron Mask), Athos gets himself arrested for majestically denouncing Louis conduct with Louise...
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Gone with the Wind in Flannery O'Connor's “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”: An Anagogical Biblical Allusion
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 73–76.
Published: 01 June 2001
... these and all other explicators of this scene have failed to note is that the original source o f the phrase gone with the w ind is a passage from the Book of Psalms and th at the g ran d m o th er s unwitting allusion to this biblical passage not only augments the story s com plex of ironic foreshadowing b u...
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More Renaissance Woman than Romantic: The Revision of Pastoral Ideal in the Poetry and in a Devoir of Emily Brontë
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 51–70.
Published: 01 September 2001
... discussing the influences of this genre in sufficient depth. In Some Versions of Pastoral, William Em pson links Wuthering Heights to the genre through the novel s use of double-plots. Nancy Armstrong notes that WutheringHeights plays ironically on readers expectations of pastoral elements in rural novels...
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In Praise of the Fake Memoir
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 119–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
... these areas, though we share much the same sense o f ironic humor, and at tim es they can be brutally sarcastic. But the parameters of our relationships are earnest and transparent. This transparency is something we hear a lot about, and it's supposed to be a good thing. I suppose it is good in certain...
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A Burke Source for the Opening of Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 68–70.
Published: 01 March 2001
... this d om inant strain in Austen studies which M arch 2001 69 makes Miss Austen merely a jewel in E dm und B urke s crown. 1 The latter view tends to em phasize the subversively ironic na ture of A usten s social observation, the form er its chastening. The novel about which the two views are m ost...
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The Etymology of Tinker , with a Note on Tinker's Dam
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 10–12.
Published: 01 December 2001
... into proverb, usually involving the wrong spell ing of the otherwise in n o cen t word dam 9 But dam certainly has legitim ate antecedents in this context: Dam . . . the wall of refractory material, forming the front of the forehearth of a blast furnace. It is built on the inside of a supporting iron plate...
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Reconsidering the Tragic Aspects of Leontes: Death and Laughter in The Winter's Tale
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 43–57.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., but why? he continues; Satisfy? T h entreaties of your mistress? Satisfy? Leontes concludes (I. ii. 230-235). The ironic mania 46 English Language Notes comes to a point when an emotional Leontes implores his ser vant to insult his wife by admitting she is a hobby-horse. H a not you seen, Camillo...
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Beyond the Confederacy: Who Remembers What When in Berlin and Richmond?
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
.../index.html . Brevis Melanie . “ Sally Bruce Kinsolving Collection MS 17 .” June 5 , 2015 . www.prattlibrary.org/uploadedFiles/www/locations/central/special_collections/MS%2017%20Sally%20Bruce%20Kinsolving%20Collection(1).pdf . Bruce Kathleen . Virginia Iron Manufacture in the Slave...
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Life and Death by the Book: A Dramatic Reading of Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 183–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., no difference between them, and no distinction. Also violently transformative is Marguerite’s language of fire, which acts as both the mirror and the mirroring, except in a much more radical fashion. In one metaphor of transformative union, iron, one of the more resilient metals, melts in a fire so fierce...
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The Romance of the Rose as a Possible Source for Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter”
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 48–58.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of French literature and knowledge of the French language. It is thus the contention o f this essay th at H aw thorne may have used key iconographical and them atic elem ents from The Romance of the Rose as an ironic subtext to his tale. These ele m ents include: the symbolic linkage of girl and flower...
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After the Bathhouse; or, In Praise of Awkwardness
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 49–62.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Camus's ironic pose, therefore, can be approached as an ethical impulse to take difference seriously, however inconclusive or indefinite the resultant text m ight be. The book's often tedious repetitions reveal the m icroscopic differences in these samey encounters w hile steadfastly refusing to silence...
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The Autonomous Female Self and the Death of Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin's “Story of an Hour”
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 48–55.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of it grants (354). A fresh understanding of just how ironic that statement is and of how that irony applies to Louise as well as to the other characters it is usually limited to shows that Chopin s story is much more radical than is usually claimed. The Story of an H our emerges n otjust as another...
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