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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 35–52.
Published: 01 September 2014
... as Cities o f Salt (1987). This novel charts the dispossession o f a nom adic Bedouin co m m u n ity at the onset of oil m odernization in the fiction al G ulf state, o r Sultanate, o f M ooran, w hich closely resem bles M unif's native Saudi Arabia. W hile carefully narrating the violent and traum atic...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (2): 41–48.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and nonhum an natures in to the m ore w e ll-tra ve le d areas o f fina n cia l, g e o p o litica l, and, on th e w hole , hum an secu rity. T his essay tu rn s to a sin g le e x tra c tio n zone, th e oil and gas rich B akken shale fo rm a tio n in N o rth D akota, M o n ta n a , and S a s k a tc h e w a n...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1. Picasso, The Absinthe Drinker: Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903). Oil on canvas, 70.3 × 55.3 cm (27.67 × 21.75 in). Private collection.
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 91–108.
Published: 01 October 2021
... University Press , 1996 . Denchak Melissa . “ How Deep Were the Impacts of the BP Oil Disaster? ” Natural Resources Defense Council, April 8 , 2020 . www.nrdc.org/stories/how-deep-were-impacts-bp-oil-spill . Doane Bethany . “ Planetary Ecohorror and Sublime Annihilation .” Modern...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 21–36.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of Chicago Press , 2016 . Ghosh Amitav . “ Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel .” New Republic , no. 206 ( 1992 ): 29 – 34 . Haraway Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Hau‘ofa Epeli...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
... this pleasure cruise. When Costello recognizes that the seething mass of life she contemplates from the deck is composed of a raft of penguins, she recalls that Macquarie Island was a nineteenth-century hub of the penguin-oil industry and that thousands of penguins were clubbed to death and boiled down...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 82–95.
Published: 01 April 2019
... services such as trains and electricity. The novel follows Caddy, barely holding things together two years after her husband and cat died when oil tanks exploded near their house. In the opening pages we are told that a “dirty river” caught fire in a hot wind and that water cannons failed to protect...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 2. Hieronymus Bosch, Triptych of the Temptation of Saint Anthony (ca. 1501), detail. Oil on panel, 131 × 228 cm. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Photograph by Werner Forman.
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
... perilous because this violation is a transgression that threatens the distinction between the nation’s own safe, private spaces and an alien, oil-saturated elsewhere. The terror of difference is represented in the novel through the image of oil that mediates descriptions of the explorers’ disastrous...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and/as Disconnection.” 8 Cendrars, Le Panama , n.p. See also Cendrars, Panama . 9 Bochner, Blaise Cendrars , 16 . 10 Cendrars, Le Panama , n.p. 11 Cendrars, Complete Poems , 34 . 12 DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay , 31 . 13 Whalan, “‘Oil Was Trumps’” ; LeMenager...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 123–129.
Published: 01 March 2012
... corrupt political leaders w ere happy to see S aw o-W iw a dispatched with, Okom e notes, as his hum an rights and environm entalist activism on behalf of the Ogoni peoples w ere considered annoying distractions in Shell's oil exportation and the neo-colo nial chiefs' bribery-based enterprise. Saro-W iw...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 149–159.
Published: 01 March 2007
... to grease. Blacks o f the region around this tim e swore off the consum ption o f castor oil. According to W illiam Sidney Drewry, a late twentieth-century historian, " [t]he famous remedy of doctors o f antebellum days castor o il was long dreaded for fear It was 'old Nat grease7 Drewry and others have...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 113–120.
Published: 01 March 2017
... form s of life amid chaotic clim ate changes. Far from a tim eless, neatly bounded island of exoticized indigenous culture, W ohlfo rth 's Barrow is a dynamic, porous, and thoroughly globalized place. Thanks to centuries of contact w ith colonial powers and recent oil w ealth, its indigenous residents...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Figure 2. Hieronymus Bosch, Triptych of the Temptation of Saint Anthony (ca. 1501), detail. Oil on panel, 131 × 228 cm. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Photograph by Werner Forman. ...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 49–58.
Published: 01 March 2003
...: Containing Practical Directions for Painting in Fresco, Secco, Oil, and Distemper, with the Art of Gild ing and Illuminating Manuscripts Adopted by the Old Italian Mas ters.1 Both C ennini s Treatisem á M errifíeld s editorial parapher- 50 English Language Notes nalia (which include Giuseppi Tam broni s...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 42–43.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Black Spirits. The song, which is inserted in Shakespeare s Macbeth at 4.1.43, lists a variety of demonic ingredients, includ ing blood of a bat and libbard s bane, juice of a toad and oil of adder, and lastly, three ounces of the red-haired wench. Apprehending that the first four...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (2): 25–32.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in s titu tio n a l ra cism , even if o n ly la te n t." In v o k in g an O rie n ta lis t "o th e rin g " p ro ce ss in v o lv e d in d is p la c in g and p o llu tin g c o m m u n itie s fo r th e e x tra c tio n and processing o f coal and oil, Klein no tes th a t p ro p o rtio n ally "th e se...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 71–74.
Published: 01 December 2000
... aking ap proaches of love to Valentine in the faded khaki he is wearing 74 English Language Notes because Sylvia has splattered his best uniform with salad oil, echoes Shakespeare s m uch-troubled king. W hen Ford gave an account of the writing o f Parade s End, he said: H um an tribula tions...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 99–114.
Published: 01 September 2008
... through space in the graphic novel. Space is both a concrete location (region, neighborhood, home) and an abstract concept (nation, belong ing, identity). The protagonists rebel against civic turm oil and racist Interment while their graphic representations (the deliberate use o f space) expose a deep...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Indian, oil and gas barons, Iñupiat and Inuit residents of Alaska, and academic humanists. The range of intentions of these various constituencies in making the case for an Arctic America reflects their diverse interests and investments. For even if hydro-critical scholars do not politicize the ocean...
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