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Yotsi’tsishon and the Language of the Seed in the Haudenosaunee Story of Earth’s Creation

Amber Meadow Adams
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 111–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237454
Published: 01 April 2020
... remain areas of healthy debate among proficient speakers of Kanyen’keha and other Haudenosaunee languages. I offer Wa’kerahkats:teh’s interpretation here with the caveat that some speakers may parse the verb root - ’nihstenh - in other ways. 43 Sagard, Le grand voyage au pays des Hurons...
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Stories, Language, and the Land

Cheryl Savageau
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 21–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237388
Published: 01 April 2020
.... Why did this story wake up now, at the same time when the Language is reawakening, and during a great gathering-in of the People? How does it help us in this particular time? What is it we need to know? The poem continues: In this world out of balance, Ktsi Amiskw dreams a hard dream: a world...
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World(build)ing in Mohawk- and Seneca-Language Films

Penelope Kelsey
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 214–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237531
Published: 01 April 2020
...Penelope Kelsey Abstract This essay brings Zayin Cabot’s concept of “ecologies of participation” into conversation with contemporary Mohawk- and Seneca-language films and language revitalization movements. For Indigenous peoples, these participatory events are often interactive storying of worlds...
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Future’s Moving Terrains: Land, Language, and a Poetics of Congregation

Abdul Manan Bhat
English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 23–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-10782054
Published: 01 October 2023
... jān mīkunīm mā] —Ghani Kashmiri When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish noted, “The earth is closing in on us. . . . Where do the birds fly after the last sky?,” he captured a crucial condition in occupation. Where do birds of an occupied sky fly to, and how? As the habitat of land, language...
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King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance

Arthur F. Kinney
English Language Notes (2000) 37 (3): 79–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-37.3.79
Published: 01 March 2000
...Arthur F. Kinney King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance . By Judy Kronenfeld . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 1998 . Pp. 383. $64.95 . 0-8223-2027-4. Copyright © 2000 Regents of the University of Colorado 2000 March 2000...
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Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England

Donald C. Baker
English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 80–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-38.1.80
Published: 01 September 2000
...Donald C. Baker Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England . By Janette Dillon . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . Pp. xiii + 272. $59.95 0-521-5933-44 Copyright © 2000 Regents of the University of Colorado 2000 80 English Language Notes BOOK REVIEWS...
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Beyond Language: Metaphor and Metonymy in Comics Storytelling

Karin Kukkonen
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 89–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-46.2.89
Published: 01 September 2008
...Karin Kukkonen Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 B eyo n d La n g u a g e : M e t a p h o r a n d M e t o n y m y in C om ics S to ry tellin g K a r in K u k k o n e n Considering comics as language is a com m on approach in comics studies. Comics as we know them...
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Speaking the Language of Law: A Juris-dictional Primer

Marianne Constable
English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 9–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-48.2.9
Published: 01 September 2010
... its speaking. Legal words offer insight not only into legal ju ris­ diction, but also into the workings of language. Likewise, literary words and figures name ways that law speaks. One argues and reasons, one interprets and judges, in both language and law. One transgresses against law and against...
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Why Transnational Modernism Can't Be All in One Language

Rebecca L. Walkowitz
English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 157–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-49.1.157
Published: 01 March 2011
... us to e xa m in e in g re a te r detail and w ith greater sop histication the circula tion o f E nglish-language w rite rs th ro u g h o u t the w o rld .T h ird , it has a llo w e d us to no tice th a t m ig ra tio n and g lo b a liza tio n are engines o f lit­ erary in n o v a tio n as w e ll as c...
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The Crusonian Alphabet: Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language

Robert W. Rix
English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 69–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-43.2.69
Published: 01 December 2005
...Robert W. Rix Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 Decem ber 2005 69 THE CRUSONIAN ALPHABET: THOMAS SPENCE S GRAND REPOSITORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE In terms of mapping the progress of print culture in the eigh­ teenth century, the significance of spelling books...
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The Languages of The Passion

Anne Morey
English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 241–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-44.1.241
Published: 01 March 2006
... emerges as a brilliant institutional critic. For the potential perversity o f the choice of languages confers all m anner of hidden advantages, addressing variously concerns about ways of breathing new life into the Christ film , seiz­ ing the high ground of "authenticity," and addressing foreign...
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Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions

Wai Chee Dimock
English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 59–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.59
Published: 01 March 2009
... be teaching and w riting in just one language, there should be no autom atic assumption that this one lan­ guage w ould suffice, that it could encompass the full range of pertinent material. On the contrary, it seems reasonable to assume that many linguistic w indow s would open up in any given field o f...
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A Central Sierra Miwok Origins Story: The Theft of the Sun

Andrew Cowell
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 132–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237465
Published: 01 April 2020
...Andrew Cowell Abstract This article examines an Indigenous origins narrative from central California. The text is an oral narrative about the theft of the sun by Coyote, recorded in the Central Sierra Miwok language. The article presents a formal analysis of the structure, language, and poetics...
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Horror, Trauma, and George A. Romero’s Martin (1978)

Adam Lowenstein
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277227
Published: 01 October 2021
...Adam Lowenstein Abstract This essay analyzes how George A. Romero, in his underrated psychological vampire film Martin , translates individual trauma (slow, process-based, unrecognized) into collective trauma (sudden, event-based, recognized) through a vocabulary of horror. The language of trauma...
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Life and Death by the Book: A Dramatic Reading of Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls

Manuela Ceballos
English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 183–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-4337516
Published: 01 April 2018
... in Valenciennes, with Marguerite as a witness. Her use of fire as a metaphor to describe union with God foreshadows her death. Furthermore, The Mirror ’s emphasis on the insufficiency of language to describe the divine echoes Marguerite’s silence during her inquisitorial trial. However, these complaints against...
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Before Latinx: X and Cartas de un Americano

Rodrigo Lazo
English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 48–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-6960724
Published: 01 October 2018
...Rodrigo Lazo Abstract The article suggests that the fashionable use of the term Latinx overlooks the historical context of Spanish-language publications in which the gender distinction Latina/o is important. Focusing on the anonymously published Cartas de un Americano (London, 1826), a collection...
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American Indians Encounter the Bible: Reception, Resistance, and Reinterpretation

Christopher Vecsey
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 145–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237476
Published: 01 April 2020
... served their catechetical purposes, and in time they began to translate the Bible—in whole and in part—into American Indian languages. Therefore this article illustrates that to the present day Native Americans continue to receive the Bible actively and variously, attempting to fit it to their unfolding...
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Translating and Retranslating “Fallen Star”: An Ohų’kaką Tale

Sarah Hernandez
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 178–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237498
Published: 01 April 2020
... tradition, Riggs is often viewed as the expert on Dakota culture, language, and literature. The impulse to privilege Riggs is problematic, because it is a new iteration of settler colonialism and patriarchy that further oppresses the Dakota nation and delegitimizes its rich and complex literary traditions...
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Émile Mâle and Premodern Pleasures: Beauty, Colonial Discourse, and the Middle Ages

Afrodesia McCannon
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8557923
Published: 01 October 2020
... and literature, discussion of medieval music, historiography about the period, and so on have assessed the Middle Ages as a time of naïveté, superstition, and violence by individuals who were not fully formed. To this day, the term medieval carries the derogatory connotation of “primitive.” This language...
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Spanish Civil War Horror and Regional Trauma: The Politics of Painful Remembrance in Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles ( Painless , 2012)

Xavier Aldana Reyes
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 20–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277238
Published: 01 October 2021
... and act as an artistic response to centralist ideas of a unified and stable nation-state. Such a rethinking demonstrates that the horror genre continues to offer a language of anxiety capable of negotiating and contributing to debates around the importance of national accountability, war reparations...
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