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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 87–100.
Published: 01 September 2006
... other than hum an forces are alw ays at w o rk on us. W h ile I w rite th is th e lig h t g low s; an apple becom es a v ivid green; I respond all th ro u g h me; but how?Then a lit­ tle ow l [chatters] under m y w indow . Again I respond. Figuratively I could snap­ shot w h a t I mean by som e im age...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 73–86.
Published: 01 September 2006
... a dozen scie n tific papers on lig h t. His research on lig h t's p ro p ­ erties and behavior was o f a piece w ith his experim ents on photogenic draw ing, ye t in both his private and public w riting,T albot emphasizes the im portance o f darkness to the m edium as m uch as he does lig h t. In "S o m e...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 307–309.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Or the beauty o f innuendos. . .. -W allace Stevens Photographers som etim es scraped the plates clean to start over, and m any o f the negatives o f the C ivil War were recycled into greenhouse plates w ith o u t being scraped, th e ir im ages o f the harvest o f death g radually fading aw ay to let m ore lig...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 135–142.
Published: 01 September 2006
... a l l / W i n t e r 2 0 0 6 Let's look. In "U n title d (E-28 a n early g e o m e tric p a ttern in g o f blue w ash, w ith lig h te r blue and a lm ost w h ite streaks. Layered again, not spatially (im pasto), but by a varied translucency (tint). Letting lig h t in. A sim ultaneous see(k)ing through...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Roberto Tejada Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 Vanishing Acts R o b e r t o T e ja d a A m ulets that share a secret kinship in the history o f lig h t and language, w ith w ords like g lim m e r o r d e ste llo sparks o f in te n s ity fade; s p lin te rs o f d u...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 March 2001
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2010
... s w ould turn out "excessively dram atic" and too em otionally m oving, did not fo rce th e ir v ie w e rs "to rea lly suffer, laugh, be d e lig h te d o r hate12 A rticle s by the period's m ost renowned cultural producers directly addressed the need to rehabilitate m elodram a's unfavorable...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 September 2006
... head o f Scofield Thayer . . . m ounted on glass g litte rin g ly co m p licate d fro m any a n g le " (362). Her 1957 fo rw a rd to a b ook o f Lynes's im ages o f the NewYork City Ballet praises "[h is ] understanding o f lig h t and im patience w ith retouching as a substitute fo r fo cu s" (655...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 45–59.
Published: 01 September 2015
... ation one can com pare the cro w n in Bayeux to oth er co n te m p o ra ry (or s lig h tly later) ob je cts14: the crow n o f Hildesheim Cathedral (1054-1079); the crow n o f St. M axim in A bb ey in Trier (dated around 1100); the crow n o f lig h t in Aachen (dated betw een 1156 and 1184); and the crow...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 March 2010
... before he know s w h a t it is. A t a d is tin c t m o m e n t in the flashback, the ch ild -n a rra to r internalizes the darkness, initializing a reiterative hailing process: "[a ]n d when the lig h t fills the room , the child is filled w ith darkness. He kn o w s th a t every tim e th is happens he's...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 283–290.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., sacred toys fo r us, but up here I'm slick as platinum paper. The roo f tiles cook like little stoves at noon and you lay me out on th e ir perfect lig h t w ith a silver chloride blanket. It leaves a mark, a darkish sun: that's me, leaving already fo r the big future. W h o is taking w h a t, th e p...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 41–47.
Published: 01 March 2010
... bequests actually h ig h lig h t the need o f m arginal types, such as penniless drunks and those unable to secure credit, to be recognized as social categories in th e ir ow n rig ht.T h e laugh­ te r that punctuates the official fo rm o f the testam ent in turn d isrupts established social hier­ archies...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 9–14.
Published: 01 March 2012
... L a n g u a g e N o t e s 50.1 S p r in g / S u m m e r 2 0 1 2 there was no Athena to stop the action, no being from a supram undane sphere of existence to explain the consequences o f violence, and to establish a new set of bonds and o b lig a ­ tions that w o u ld stop the fu ry o f war. W hat...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 231–236.
Published: 01 March 2012
... , "y o u r nam e is Jo rg e Luis Borges. I to o am J o rg e Luis Borges. We are in T969, in the c ity o f C a m bridge." "N o ," he a n sw e re d in m y ow n, s lig h tly d ista n t voice, "I am here in Geneva, on a bench, a few steps from the Rhone." Then after a m o m e n t he w ent on: "It is o d d...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 197–206.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Charlotte Kent Copyright © 2014 Regents of the University of Colorado 2014 Remapping th e V ie w e r s Experience w ith A lig h ie r o e B o e tti s M appa d el M o n do C harlotte K ent A M U S E U M PROVIDES captions to help spectators navigate the visual quality of each work, and offers...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 195–202.
Published: 01 September 2006
... selves not w ith the lig h t o f day (photography as "lig h t w ritin g but w ith its artificial extension into the night, the revelation o f that which, shroud­ ed in darkness, lies beyond w h a t w e assum e w e can see. Delano's "S tree t scene near a bus sta tio n " brings in to focus...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 91.
Published: 01 September 2005
...-ranging English periodicals o f the eigh­ teenth an d early n in eteen th centuries. Carefully designed an d m eticu­ lously docum ented, these databases also serve as paradigm s for future electronic research in bibliography. T h e Bibliographical Society o f UVa is d e lig h te d to b e th e first in th...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 189–194.
Published: 01 September 2006
... between them selves and the im m ig ra n t Riis as neg lig ib le in contrast to the m ore visible differences between those o f light and dark com plexions (Jacobson and R o g in ).1 Riis's fam ous representations o f New York City's im poverished confirm ed the privileged position o f his "n a tiv e...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 92.
Published: 01 September 2005
... (for example, papers and responses presented at the MLA or other conferences, provided they have been reformatted for publication). ' ^jT'sj'Vr* T.C.. P le a s e send c o n trib u tio n s a n d / o r p r o p o s a ls to: S p e c ia l Issue Editor: The R e lig io u s T u r n English Langu age Notes...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 101–109.
Published: 01 March 2010
... d her there. Like any uncannily abject space, the house "beseeches" Laurey at the same tim e that it threat­ ens to "p u lve rize " her,9 an am bivalence w e saw in the passage on Indian Territory I quoted above. In lig h t o f Riggs's o rig in a l concerns in Lilacs, the dre a m house is also th e...