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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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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
... origin myths ethnopoetics coyote stories Native American oral narrative Miwok people 22 Cowell, Naming the World . 23 Sarris, Keeping Slug Woman Alive , 21, 23, 47. 24 Gifford and Block, Californian Indian Nights , 16–17. 25 See Nevin, introduction, 128 . Works...
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Toward an Oceanic “Becoming With”
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 30–47.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Cited Best Elsdon . Maori Agriculture: The Cultivated Food Plants of the Natives of New Zealand with Some Account of Native Methods of Agriculture, Its Ritual and Origin Myths . Wellington : Whitcombe and Tombs , 1925 . Connery Christopher L. “ The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional...
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The Modem Construction of Myth
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 283–301.
Published: 01 March 2006
... theories o f myth can be divided into three broad groups, folkloristic, Ideological, and constitutive, and that they all derive from an original, romantic, construct.The survey is organized diachronically, w ith some attention to taxonomy and axiology. I find the author's thesis entirely persuasive: what...
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Convoluted Yarns: The Aran Sweater’s Legends and Modernity’s Fashioning of a Mythology
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 144–155.
Published: 01 October 2022
... production. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 Aran Islands postcolonialism knitted sweaters 18 Starmore observes that “the myth of the distant Celtic origin of the Aran sweater is largely the work of Heinx Edgar Kiewe (1906–1986), who...
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Indigenous Narratives of Creation and Origin in Embrace of the Serpent , by Ciro Guerra
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
... with the story of Chiricaspi, such as the concept of the gift and the importance of transmitting knowledge through oral stories. Finally, the myth is the vehicle that leads to more practical benefits. Therefore the film not only represents the origin narratives of the Amazon cultures but, through an exercise...
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The Religious Turn: René Girard
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 March 2006
... mes recherches m 'ont amené à penser ce que je pense, que je suis devenue chrétien. (Les origins de la culture, 58) T rend spotters like Terry Eagleton and Stanley Fish are not w ro n g the signs of criticism's religious turn are everywhere, accumulating force over the last ten years. This summer...
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Fashion in Așǫs : Tradition and Modernity in the Dress of Candomblé Terreiros
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 121–143.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., divination, and healing ceremonies were called calundus . Candomblé has adapted the cult of different African deities to the Brazilian context since the slave trade and since African and Indigenous slavery in Brazil. The origin of the enslaved Africans and the period when they came to Brazil strongly...
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Jesmyn Ward’s Post-Katrina Black Feminism: Memory and Myth through Salvaging
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 71–85.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and rememories involving Rose. Hamilton introduces each myth with an origin story that explains the myth’s transformations across centuries, languages, and traditions to account for the weaving of various plots into a unified myth. The myths Esch and Ward read, then, exemplify the salvaging required...
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Urizen as Ceres in Blake's The Four Zoas , Night the Ninth
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 50–58.
Published: 01 September 2000
... happy, said he, my beloved Girl, in your Style an d Expressions ; an d p. 255: [what an] easy an d happy M anner of N arration this excellent Girl has! 13 The Barnhart Dictionary ofEtymology (Bronx: H.W. Wilson, 1988) defines the Latin w ord textus as style or texture o f a work; originally, th in g...
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The Past Embedded in Everyday Life: The Meseta del Collao as an Illustrative Case
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 92–102.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Alexandre Belmonte Abstract The Andean experience of the everyday is affected markedly by respect and reverence for tradition, for teachings of the past, and for myths that explain and simplify reality. This article reflects on the uses of ancient rituals in Bolivia today, in the context...
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Dick Whittington, Stow's Survey , and “Catte Streete”
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 33–39.
Published: 01 September 2005
... hittington s own lifetime, the fictional narrative relates also to L ondon s growth as a metropolitan city, a phenom enal growth involving 34 English Language Notes some two hundred years of development. In the fullest biograph ical account titled Richard Whittington: The Man Behind the Myth, Caroline M...
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Prometheus the Modern Matricide: Justice and the Furies in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 41–50.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., as the novel suggests we do, Victor follows the archetype of the m atri cide, in particular through the myth of Orestes, contradicting his perceived role of fate and underlining his overall tragedy of character. Aside from the creation of the m onster itself, the most sig nificant event within Frankenstein...
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St. Petersburg
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 129–130.
Published: 01 March 2014
... adding and expounding upon the them e.The Peters burg myth started w ith its very creation, in 1703, by Peter the Great. It is em blem atic o f the force and w ill of the state over the individual, created as it was at the edge of the Baltic Sea. The draining of the marshes and subsequent building cost...
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Lot's Daughters and the Mothers of Davidic Dynasty in the Zohar: The Enigma of the Term “Tiqla”
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2012
...; Jonathan Benarroch, 'Yanuqa'and 'Sabba' TwoThatAre One:Allegory, Symbol and Myth in Zoharic Literature (Ph.D. diss., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2011). 12 Ruth 3:7. On this scene and its origins, see Harold Fisch, "Ruth and the structure of the Covenant History," VetusTestament 32 (1982): 425-37; A rthu...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 21–35.
Published: 01 November 2024
... for recognition are also dares, invocations, and provocations. I dare you to say the name of a victim murdered by the state. I dare you to say the name of a victim of mob violence. I dare you to remember them and recognize their humanity. As such, by using Émile Durkheim’s myth-ritual theory of the sacred...
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Restitution of Human Remains and Landscape Resignification: The Case of Chapal-có Hill (La Pampa, Argentina) and the Rankülche Nation
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 63–74.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... Figure 1. Historical territory of the Rankülche nation and current communities. Whereas the ethnic origins and ancestral territories of the Rankülche appear potentially rather diverse, their cosmology presents greater uniformity. In particular, their creation myth shares many aspects with other...
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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
... Riggs and Deloria provided different interpretations of “Fallen Star,” the basic plot of this myth remains the same. In both versions, a young woman marries a star, becomes pregnant, falls through a hole in the sky, and plummets to the earth, where she gives birth to a baby boy, who ages quickly...
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From Monmouth to Madoc to Māori: The Myth of Medieval Colonization and an Indigenous Alternative
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 21–34.
Published: 01 October 2020
... productive and generative. Land acknowledgments, for instance, are almost entirely symbolic. I’ve yet to see one given that also ended with the actual return of land. Yet, as the rest of this essay argues, metaphor and myth, particularly when taken literally and embodied in practice, can have profound...
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Costume Jewry: South Park' s Holocaust of the Passion
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 253–257.
Published: 01 March 2006
... by the fact of the film 's visual "accuracy." Special effects In Bible epics obfuscate histor ical contradiction w ith the assurance that im agining the sim ulacrum guarantees the his toricity of the original. Special effects thus reinforce as gospel truth TPOTChrisfs most Interesting revision of the Christ...
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