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“ Of the NATURALL CONDITION of Mankind ”: Reflections on the Ontology of “The State of Nature” in Chapter XIII of Hobbes's Leviathan
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 13–28.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Charles D. Tarlton Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 D ecem ber 2001 13 OF THF. NATURATI. CONDITION OFMANKIND REFLECTIONS ON THE ONTOLOGY OF THE STATE OF NATURE IN CHAPTER XIII OF HOBBES S LEVIATHAN 1 . . . thepains left another, will be onely to consider, if he...
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A Pilgrim in Sheep's Clothing? The Nature of Wandering in Piers Plowman
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Dee Dyas Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 English Language Notes Volume XXXIX N um ber 4 June 2002 A PILGRIM IN SHEEP S CLOTHING? THE NATURE OF WANDERING IN PIERS PLOWMAN1 In a som er seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were...
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Navigating Nature in the Anthropocene
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as we do so in a more "ecologically responsible" way. On the other horizon looms the familiar shore of the traditional environm entalist narrative: if we cease to seek mastery over the Earth and preserve w hat is le ft of the natural w orld untouched by hum anity, we can reverse the damage we have done...
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Natural Education in Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Woman and Rousseau’s Emile
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 43–57.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Catherine Engh Abstract This essay places Wollstonecraft’s late novel Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) in conversation with Rousseau’s thought on natural education in Emile (1762). In both texts, aesthetic sensibility is a foundation of religious belief and a crucial feature of a program...
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Sweet-and-Sour Soup for the Psyche: Horror’s Ecophobic Leanings
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Simon C. Estok Abstract Excess signals uncontrolled natural agency and thus provides a key ingredient in horror and ecohorror. Because excess ultimately threatens our agency over matter and meaning, nature comes to threaten the fall and dissolution of humanity, offer an erasure of what it means...
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Tales of (De)colonization in the Peruvian Amazon: The Case of the Iskonawa
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 186–199.
Published: 01 April 2020
... researchers has been collecting since 2010. Some Iskonawa myths of origin and survival tell us about their relationship with nature, their use of animals and plants, and a bleak future of deforestation, contamination, drug trafficking, and other crimes. In some of these narratives, it is possible to find...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 April 2024
... dispossession and the effects of environmental racism while “naturalizing” Black and Indigenous peoples as closer to the natural environment. The contributions to this issue draw on convergences between environmental inequality, sonic ecologies, and the legacies of colonialism to shape ongoing conversations...
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The Oceanic South
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
... South and engage its troubled surfaces and lively depths. Thinking through the roiling and hostile, fecund, and unbounded nature of this ocean, the essay follows “the lives of whales” in novels by Witi Ihimaera and Zakes Mda. Sounding the ocean’s imaginative depths, these fictions offer illuminating...
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Materialities of Memory: Traces of Trauma and Resilience in Native and Colonial North America
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 7–21.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and future. Physical objects interact with both mainstream and marginalized narratives in vital ways, opening pathways for profoundly interdisciplinary, multimedia accountings of the nature and changing forms of “memory” in early America. The essay reassesses a wooden pegboard from an Anglo-American dwelling...
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World(build)ing in Mohawk- and Seneca-Language Films
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 214–225.
Published: 01 April 2020
...; highlights the constructed, fallible, and ephemeral nature of these technologies; and potentiates other technologies and ecologies based in Mohawk ontologies. Works Cited Cabot Zayin . Ecologies of Participation: Agents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners . Boulder, CO : Lexington , 2018...
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Consorting with Stone: Lithic Sovereignty and Anticolonial Futurity in King Horn and Marie de France’s “Yonec”
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 101–120.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., facilitated by the very stone that had seemed to entrap her. Drawing on critical Indigenous studies, legal studies, and ecomaterialism, this essay concludes that both King Horn and “Yonec” offer a medieval British imaginary of lithic relational sovereignty that runs counter to teleological, naturalizing...
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The Addicted Self: Habit and Addiction in Early Modern Minds
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
... vulnerable to all addictions, virtuous and sinful. The image of addiction that emerges from this examination is one not of a disease or a disorder, but of a natural function of the body that could on occasion be led astray. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado...
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Future’s Moving Terrains: Land, Language, and a Poetics of Congregation
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 October 2023
... milieu of Kashmir (Urdu, Persian, and Kashmiri) in the first half of the twentieth century, offering an inaugural analysis of the itinerant nature of Persian, Urdu, and Kashmiri poetry in relation to the form of ghazal and its consequences for future making. Kashmiri poets and critics, in poetry as well...
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On Robert Fitterman's “Replacing References to Photography with References to the Web in Vilém Flusser's ‘Towards a Philosophy of Photography’ (1983)”
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 217–222.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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Words on the Tip of the Tongue: A Response to Marcia Douglas's ‘The Rastalogy of I&I: Writing into I-finity’
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with community, nature, and the divine to become a reinforced first person singular or, first person plural, I&I.” At once an examination of Rasta ideology as well as a writerly journey into what it means to create in dialogue with that ideology, Douglas concludes with a fresh look at the Rasta woman...
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Mystical Reflections on the Primordial Torah
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., prior to all the labeling and processing of our conceptual mind. The contemporary mystical path of Kedumah is interested in accessing and including this primordial nature as an integral part of our everyday experience. Kedumah thus calls for a more integrative appreciation of all reality—including...
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What Shape?
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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Next to Nothing: Poetic Information in Robert Fitterman and Vilém Flusser
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 227–230.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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Intertwinings: Rethinking Environmental Ethics through Aesthetics with Merleau-Ponty
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Joe Balay Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 IN T E R T W IN IN G S : Rethinking E nvironm ental Ethics th ro u gh A esth etics w ith M erleau-Ponty Joe Balay F rom the 1916 Organic A c t's e ffo rt "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects" of U.S...
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“A Spirit in the Woods”: Hegelian Aesthetics and Wordsworth's “Nutting”
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 102–115.
Published: 01 December 2005
... an and poetic nature as theoretical speculations worth pondering, we run the risk of overlooking the interesting fact that Decem ber 2005 103 m etaphor forms the basis of each. The appearance of m etaphor in a philosophical text need not be taken as a mere sign of rhetor ical finesse. As Max Black argued, m...
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