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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 December 2005
... ORIGIN OF OE AFOL / ME AFELL: IS EVIDENCE STRONG ENOUGH? In his study of the Norse-derived vocabulary in Middle English, Björkman includes ME afeli (also ãvel) strength in a group of words the Scandinavian origin of which is tolerably cer tain, 1and explains that the attestation of the form...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the nation: through her fiction, she tells how original Argentine peoples adopted Sarmiento’s proposal. In speaking of her inspiration for the film, Martel refers to both her work and Sarmiento’s as bold texts that fall within the genre of science fiction. The present essay considers the reasons...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Enrique Bernales Albites Abstract In Ciro Guerra’s film Embrace of the Serpent (2015), cultural exchanges between the central characters reveal the origin narratives and the curative power of plants valued by Indigenous cultures of the Amazon. This article analyzes how Embrace of the Serpent...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 231–236.
Published: 01 March 2012
... praxis. Outsourcing the origins of the I D ar r en To fts A ll m en w h o repeat a line from Shakespeare are W illiam Shakespeare - Borges1 W illia m Peter Blatty's 1971 novel The E xorcist begins w ith an epigram taken fro m the G ospel A cco rd in g to St. Luke (8: 27-30). C o n fro n te d w ith a m...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 19–23.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Concordance to Shakespeare, ed. Marvin Spevack (Cam bridge, Mass.: Belknap Press o f H arvard UP, 1973), 1073-74. ANTEDATING THE OED: ORIGINS OF THE THEATRICAL STAR In a sportive m ood and capitalizing on widespread public interest in cu rren t astronom ical m atters (im provem ents by Sir William Herschel...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 132–144.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Andrew Cowell Abstract This article examines an Indigenous origins narrative from central California. The text is an oral narrative about the theft of the sun by Coyote, recorded in the Central Sierra Miwok language. The article presents a formal analysis of the structure, language, and poetics...
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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 (2020) 58 (2): 101–120.
Published: 01 October 2020
... narratives of Euro-Western origins. Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . State of Exception . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2005 . Barker Joanne . “ For Whom Sovereignty Matters .” In Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Afrodesia McCannon Abstract For many European nations, the Middle Ages became the site of their national origins. However, in scholarship of the same era, the period has been subject to infantilizing defamation and dismissal, even by those who claimed to be medievalists. Studies of medieval art...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... together with original synthesizer pieces that resemble those used in horror-film scores, vaporwave is an undead, artificial soundscape that floats somewhere between music and sound. Its fake nostalgia for an alternative yet ossified past aims to confront our contemporary social paralysis in the face...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 49–68.
Published: 01 October 2022
... ranging from advertisements to fashion columns to fiction, but as often as not, the modifier India is emptied of its meaning and extrapolated, by association, to shawls made in Europe and elsewhere. The shawl’s true site of origin in Kashmir is thus obscured by the process through which India comes...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
... owned slaves enjoyed roles as public figures by working to keep the memory of the Confederacy alive, including by championing the erection of statues like these. This activism helped enable subsequent female family members to become public intellectuals and scholars. Scholarship on the origins...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 April 2020
... fruitful comparisons of theoretical frameworks and case studies across regions to find commonalities and specificities that shed light on hemispheric Indigenous studies in North and South America today. This special issue is devoted to studying narratives of creation and territorial origin...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 38–49.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and people have de scended from a com m on origin. In turn, he transposes his observations that the life of the natural world em anates from a com m on origin to his study of Native Americans and their ori gins. Through his study of the natural world and of Native Ameri cans, Bartram attempts to trace...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 September 2008
... past stories are repeated and rewritten, neces sitating both a sense of memory and, by extension, of repression.This dynamic of mem o ry and repression, in superhero comics, is best understood in term s of its organization around the superhero's origin story generally the m ost frequently retold...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and represents the first of the Four Noble Truths. The word dukkha in its original context refers to a wheel that is off axis, an apt description of the contracted mode of experience in which we feel as if something in us is off center or not quite right. See Sargeant, Bhagavad Gita , 303 . ▪ ▪ ▪...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 59–62.
Published: 01 September 2005
... on Analogy and Existence (St. Louis: Herder, 1949) 266nl3. 6 D. W. Odell, T he A rgum ent of Young s Conjectures on Original Com position, Studies in Philology 78:1 (1981): 87-101. 7 Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition, ed. E. J. Morley (Man chester: The UP, 1918) 16-17. 8 D. W. Odell...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 144–155.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and increasingly a twentieth-century fashion commodity, the Aran sweater is shrouded in legends and fabrications that link it to the mythologized islands. Paradoxically, this garment now claims high-fashion and luxury appeal as a result of the mystique that its purveyors claim lies in its ancient origins...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 9–16.
Published: 01 June 2001
... n t the raid.2T he diverse origins and dates of these texts speak for its effect on contem- 10 English Language Notes poraries and successive generations. In Saxon England, the Beowulf-p oet s audiences already knew the story of King Hygelac s death, either from history whatever that m eant...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 15–25.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of three of its member-writers as arbitrators to review all the drafts o f the script in comparison to the final shooting script and to decide which writer(s) contributed the m ost in terms of "dram atic construction," "original and different scenes," "characterization or character relationships...
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