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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... Inserting naturalist echoes into this modern scene of "infow helm ," or inform ation overload, "Unnam ed" inspires my study of how aesthetic works have made environm ental data their them e in order to interrogate and supplem ent foundational environm ental epistem ologies. Though poetry leads...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 9–24.
Published: 01 September 2006
... is, sh o u ld have rem a in e d unseen. In a re v ie w o f th e 2005 N ational G allery e x h ib itio n , art h isto ria n Ian Je ffre y argues that Caravaggio's developm ent o f a naturalist idiom represented a tu rn in g p o in t in the history o f W estern painting and W estern culture generally...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 95–103.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as a village historian, W hite the naturalist also considers: the depths of wells, the parish's fossils and soils, the hunting of pheasants and hares, a neat echo in one area, the severe frost of January 1768, the frugal Hampshire prac tice o f dipping rushes in fat and using them in lieu of candles, as well...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 219–222.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Literature," which includes chapters on Thomas De Quincey, Tennyson, George Eliot, and Hardy. Her next project w ill explore representations of the inner lives of tiny creatures in Victorian poetry, novels, and naturalist writings. Brian Henry has published five books of poetry, most recently The Stripping...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 73–79.
Published: 01 September 2000
...: Nineteen Eighty-Fouris a projection o f th e fu tu re th at is based on a concrete and naturalistic portrayal o f the p resen t a n d th e past. Its originality is ro o ted in a realistic synthesis an d arran g em en t o f fam iliar materials rather than in prophetic and imaginary speculations (135). 4G...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 41–50.
Published: 01 March 2004
... popular heroes has an almost naturalistic, existentialist aura which shows that idealism can not always prevail against society or against self-interest and the striving for security that seems to advance with age. Yet the later Musketeer novels are not entirely a surrender to cynicism. Be sides flashes...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2017
... ourselves. In her essay, "S catterplots and Designer Ecosystems: Visualizing Loss in New Naturalist Media," Heather Houser similarly brackets the Anthropocene narrative to consider the ways in w hich artists working w ith new media draw on the categories of 19th century natural science and history...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
...” of such a “complexion.” Excess (and eventually rot), then, is the problem, and it is defined through naturalistic imagery. 5 What is particularly interesting here are the ways in which Jack Halberstam’s comments about “gothic monstrosity” relate with Hamlet ’s excesses and how excess ultimately threatens our agency...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 27–39.
Published: 01 March 2010
... reportage, plus Zola-esque or naturalistic experim ents w ith the effect o f enviro n m ent and heredity on identity (Jos, fo llo w in g his father, has a weakness fo r drink), and a M arxia n u n d e rsta n d in g o f th e u b iq u ity o f class war. In one scene, Jos m eets a "free-thinker," a dockw...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 97–112.
Published: 01 September 2014
... entrapm ent becomes integral to Irish short stories that continue the Bartleby meme. W ithin Joyce's and McGahern's works, the protagonists are portrayed broadly through a naturalistic m ode that, in op po sition to Irish Revivalism, emphasizes the inanition and m arginalization of Irish experience...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
... progressively legible and navigable during the previous half century, as hydrographers began to chart the oceans’ depths and naturalists to analyze its inhabitants, undersea cables were laid across ocean floors, the hydrophone came into use, and the steamship accelerated and exponentially increased leisure...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
... rso n a l" tone sanctioned by socialist realism, Harkness com bines m elodram atic plotting and sentim ental interludes w ith naturalistic reportage in order to v iv ify the p lig h t o f the m ost destitute and dispossessed, w h o retain su b je c tiv e c o m p le x ity and in sp ire readerly s y m p...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in Spanish-language fiction about the Philippines, was a bit old-fashioned in the m etrop olitan culture o f Spain itself.18 From the 1860s on, novelists such as Benito Pérez Galdós and Emilia Pardo Bazán had been develop ing realist and naturalist tendencies in the Iberian Peninsula, w hich, though...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 50–63.
Published: 01 June 2004
... or a Wordsworthian naturalist. 58 English Language Notes As with the title o f Le M onocle de Mon O ncle, however, choosing a reading o f Sea Surface Full of Clouds is, for our purposes, secondary to recognizing the linguistic dynamic at work. For in both the interpretations I have ju st sketched, the status...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 175–186.
Published: 01 March 2014
... , even the natural w o rld seems to be presented In and through the past, as the present landscape dissolves into simulacra o f past nature and the spectral traces o f naturalists, writers, and their texts. W estphal refers to the Idea o f pilgrim age to places which either d o n 't exist or only p...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2014
... For exam ple,Terry Tem pest W illiam s's Refuge (1991) a stark m em oir linking the author's naturalist observations around the Great Salt Lake w ith her m other's long struggle w ith breast cancer slo w ly builds towards an epiphany linking the disproportionate cases o f breast cancer suffered by wom en...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 March 2014
... it and representing it" by m aking his w ritin g a cartographic mark that filled in other wise unm apped locales in the Pacific.7 DenlseTanyol locates this desire for truth in M elville's skepticism fo r Darwin's naturalist classifications on the Galapagos Islands. By challenging the "su b je ctivity and ultim...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 April 2019
... challenges for naturalistic scenery, as it required power from “bothersome cables streaming down from surface vessels or shore” that would “encumber the scene.” 45 The iconic figures of The Silent World ’s opening appealed to the audience’s imaginative repertoire by masking aspects of undersea work...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., or a set of confectionary drinks made primarily of milk and boiled cannabis leaf that were differentiated by culinary combinations of nuts, spices, and cream. The European encounter with bhang before the nineteenth century was limited to the interests of naturalists and collectors of tropical drugs...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 151–165.
Published: 01 September 2014
... es of a social tota lity in both Adam M ore's m anuscript and its interpretations by the fo u r diegetic readers. Rather than lauding the te xt fo r its success in naturalizing im perial and Eurocentric values through an authoritative geographic realism and naturalistic narrative detail (which...
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