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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
...José Antonio Mazzotti Abstract This article presents some results of a long-term research project on the Iskonawa, a Peruvian Amazon community that until recently many specialists considered gone. The few living speakers hold a world of knowledge and oral tradition that a team of Peruvian...
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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
..., whether told in film, social media, or oral tradition. As a particularly salient example, the essay considers Mohawk director Karahkwenhawi Zoe Hopkins’s adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope in Star Wars Tsyorì:wat IV—Yonhská:neks (2013) in a comparative analysis with both the Navajo-language Star Wars...
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The Global Far North: Planning Indigenization Efforts in Medieval Studies
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 October 2020
... cultural contact in the defined period, particularly the oral traditional evidence of Indigenous communities. The project’s investigations will apply the emerging protocols for research ethics and for reciprocity with Indigenous communities, and they will aim to historicize and challenge settler notions...
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Ghostly Consciousness in The Book of Margery Kempe
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2020
... . Piquemal Nathalie . “ From Native North American Oral Traditions to Western Literacy: Storytelling in Education .” Alberta Journal of Educational Research 49 , no. 2 ( 2003 ): 113 – 22 . Porete Marguerite . The Mirror of Simple Souls , edited by Babinsky Ellen . Mahwah, NJ...
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Translating and Retranslating “Fallen Star”: An Ohų’kaką Tale
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 178–185.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... As an ethnologist and linguist, Riggs transformed the rich and complex Dakota oral storytelling tradition into a static cultural artifact. This article examines how Deloria corrected Riggs’s work to incorporate tribally specific beliefs, values, and worldviews into a new interpretation of “Fallen Star.” Copyright...
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Rethinking Hygelac's Raid
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 9–16.
Published: 01 June 2001
... understanding of the authors different points of view. The earliest narrative, and the progenitor of the confinen- 12 English Language Notes DIAGRAM A: MAGOUN S TWO-SOURCE THEORY The Battle Geat-English Oral Tradition I 1Beowulf Liber Monstrorum Frankish Tradition I Gregory of Tours 1 Liber Historiae tal...
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A Central Sierra Miwok Origins Story: The Theft of the Sun
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 132–144.
Published: 01 April 2020
... developed poetics of Lena Cox, of the Central Sierra Miwok language, and of the oral tradition emergent in this narrative. Rather than just look for common regional themes, plots, and motifs in English translations of myths, we must give the stories and their tellers their utmost due through a careful...
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Latin Pedagogical Plays and the Rape Scene in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 18–32.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Wisdom? Oral Tradition, Literary Tradition: A Symposium, eds. Hans Bekker-Nielson, et al. (Odense: Odense UP, 1977) 31. 17 Shippey 33. 18 Fred C. Robinson, Beowulf and the Appositive Style (Knoxville: U of Ten nessee P, 1985) 5. 19 Kemp Malone, Words of Wisdom in Beowulf," Humanoria: Essays in Lit...
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Two Riddles by Sir Philip Sidney and Their Solutions
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 32–36.
Published: 01 December 2003
... to Chemistry within the Human Brain, Journal of American Folklore 109 (1996): 440-49; Dante s Cato and the Disticha Catonis," Deutsches Dante-JahrbuchTo (2000): 125-32; and Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format? Chaucer s Tale ofMelibee as a Proverb Collection, Oral Tradition, 17 (2002): 169-207. I...
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A Burke Source for the Opening of Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 68–70.
Published: 01 March 2001
... attention. BROWNING S BEATRICE SIGNORINI AND EMERSON S EXPERIENCE Despite certain affinities in sensibility and perspective e.g., their intuitionism, their radical individualism, their interroga tion of religious and m oral traditions contact between Em erson and Browning was surprisingly meager...
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Borders Be Damned!
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the month! Rather, what I will do here, in my own pseudocritical fashion, is set up some four areas to keep in mind as we examine just what ’Skin literature has been/is about. To wit: Pre-Columbian to the 1770s. The days of the oral tradition. 1772 to 1968. Early groundbreaking works...
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Huck's Rattlers and Narrative Sucker Bait in Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., one to which Jim and Huck would have to have been exposed while living at the edge of civilization n ear the Mississippi River. Perhaps such inform a tion was theirs to learn as p art o f an oral tradition am ong set tlers establishing their households on or near the frontier in the 1840s. W hether...
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Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 90–94.
Published: 01 June 2000
... of the ideological importance of metrics. Choosing a four-beat over a five-beat line, or identi fying o n e s work as a ballad, song, or ch an t is never simply an aesthetic decision. Composing with the four stress line associ ates an author with an oral tradition which is fu rth er linked in the dialectical...
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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
... meanings not in isolation but in resonance with an abundance of colonial remembrances that have coalesced across a thick terrain of historical societies and museums, stone and metal markers and memorials, old houses, family heirlooms, oral traditions, manuscript and printed records, and formations...
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Delimiting “Mediterranean Religion”
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 253–257.
Published: 01 April 2018
... exist with respect to this fluidity. So far this discussion has focused on mining texts written in Arabic to determine the utility and parameters of Mediterranean religion. Yet there are numerous other types of texts (i.e., visual, oral traditions) that such a consideration leaves out. For example...
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Browning's “Beatrice Signorini” and Emerson's “Experience”
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 70–73.
Published: 01 March 2001
... AND EMERSON S EXPERIENCE Despite certain affinities in sensibility and perspective e.g., their intuitionism, their radical individualism, their interroga tion of religious and m oral traditions contact between Em erson and Browning was surprisingly meager. Several inci sive references to Brow ning s...
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Exodus (3.14) as the Source and Target of Shakespeare's Variations on “I AM THAT I AM”
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 33–36.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and Riddles, Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Litera ture, Myth, and Society (Bloom ington: In d ian a UP, 1976) 123-47. 21All o f the early m o d ern riddles given h ere are ind ex ed a n d /o r q u o ted in English Riddles from Oral Tradition, ed. A rcher Taylor (Berkeley: U o f Cali fo rnia P, 1951). 22For B...
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Stories, Language, and the Land
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 April 2020
... voice going forward. “Out of the desires to express memory and experience individually in each generation, another voice is given to it, a voice both inclusive and exclusive of oral tradition, one that picks up after the pause of oral tradition and carries on the story of particular tribes and what...
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Mooring Aslima: Afro-Orientalist Diaspora in Claude McKay’s Pan-Atlantic Mediterranean Modernism
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Developing from the mixed orality of peninsular Spain’s soundscapes, particularly the multilingual code-switching of poetic muwashshah and zajal, the traumatic migration of this sonic repertoire to North Africa froze into what has popularly become known as the Andalusian musical tradition ( al-mūsīqā al...
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Introduction
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the endangered communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Since 2010 Mazzotti and a team of researchers have been collecting Iskonawa oral tradition. In this article he analyzes two narratives of origin and survival that explain the Iskonawa’s relationship with nature and its fundamental role in shaping their social...
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