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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Isabel Hofmeyr Abstract This article discusses the meanings and applications of the rubric hydrocolonialism . Starting with a South African poem as an example, the piece sets out a definition of the term before outlining the existing literary scholarship that could fall under its umbrella...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 127–132.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Andrea Haslanger Abstract This short piece reads two of Phillis Wheatley’s elegies to children to reflect on how they represent the dead as speaking rather than silent. It considers how the deceased’s speech invokes different categories of the child, overlaying political and theological ideas about...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 15–18.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Ather Zia Abstract In this short piece of dystopian speculative fiction, Kashmiris are forbidden to dream. At home, Haleema had thrown the guavas out of the window. “Never bring this damned fruit close to me,” she yelled. She said the guavas smelled like a zoo. Even though neither she nor Rosy...
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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): 37–48.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Melissa Dinsman Abstract Over the span of almost fifty years the British author Mollie Panter-Downes contributed 852 pieces to the New Yorker ; this included 153 London Letters during World War II alone. In these Panter-Downes reported on the “everyday” aspects of the British home front experience...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2017
... naturalist media precisely because managing environm ental data is today so frequently a project in managing loss. Interpreting 104 ËNGLiSH LANGUAGE NOTES 55. 1-2 FALL 20 1 7 the Audubon group's 2013 annual report and Bryan Jam es's In Pieces (201 , I furthe r argue that This intim acy inflects the very...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 70–76.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and negotiating with performers’ unions about how to conceptualize the new form they were pioneering. Sweet Land cut short its run and offered a filmed version online, which emboldened me to undertake a review of a piece I had found all too fleeting when I was lucky enough to see it in person. In recent...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 April 2023
... on the Capitol with Ta-Nehisi Coates,” January 7, 2021), as well as two recent pieces on insurrectionary activity, “‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution” ( The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , Fall 2020), by Shelby Johnson, and “Provocation: Phillis...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 March 2012
... tych o f sh o rt pieces co lle ctive ly title d "C ropper."3 Quite Intentionally, the firs t section, exactly one page, is p rin t ed on a recto and as a bare o u tline o f text its w o rds are grainy, crossed out, and illegible. As a unit, it backs up to the text on the first page of "Croup," which...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 105–111.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to be exploited) by any poet w orking during the long age in which English poet ry, fo r all that it may remember an origin in speech or song, has been prim arily a written m edium .6 Yopie Prins, for example, reminds us in a num ber of recent pieces that the rela tionship between poetry and voice is a m...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Conny Cassity Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 REFRACT ED ARTIFACTS: T h e H o n o u r s o f S c o t l a n d s Il l u s i o n o f S e c u r it y CONNY CASSITY A s other pieces in this issue propose, "secure sites" reflect im penetrability, imperial control...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2009
... on all it has to feed on, such scraps."5 In keeping w ith this, I give my students fragments from Sappho to study fo r themselves. Here is an example from Anne Carson's If Not, Winter. 1 jm ight accomplish ] ]l want ]to hold jsaid ]6 This piece thwarts any stable or conclusive reading, but opens...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2009
... fessed that this book about narrative and science which, in a fashion atypical for his work, is dense w ith scholarly references was a piece o f bullshit: "I made up stories, I referred to a quantity of books I'd never read, apparently it impressed people, it's all a bit o f parody. .. . It's sim ply...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 March 2007
... hostility Lateesha experienced as a BlackTino resembles the conflicting relationship between West Indians and African Africans during the development of the New Negro M ovement.The recovery of these archival pieces demonstrates the existence of com peting ethnic identities of blackness in the United States...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 197–204.
Published: 01 March 2009
... contemporary, or near-contemporary, poetry. (The m ost contem porary poet whom Arnold is w illing to assay in the piece is Robert Burns.) One m ight say then, based on Arnold's essay, that every anthology requires a prior anthology against which or along whose lines it is form ed. New poetry is tested...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., a long haul cross-country truck driver w ho died when I was young. Based on road maps, routes m y father often traveled, and an Invented conglom eration and fragm entation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know. These mixed media...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 41–54.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., the graveyard poem. Familiar to Austen also, from h er knowledge of Clarissa and Elegant Extracts, would have been Eliza C arter s prototypical N ight Piece and O de to W isdom, both of which develop ro u n d a clear-cut opposition between n ight an d day, darkness bringing mentalSight and a quiet elation...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 193–197.
Published: 01 December 2005
... is the second of two volumes devoted to papers delivered at the Lancastrian Shakespeare conference held at Lancaster University and H oghton Tower, Lancashire, in 1999. Five of the volume s twelve pieces have already been published, three of them in book form. Caveat emptor: forty percent of this rather...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 241–246.
Published: 01 March 2012
... evident.The cap tio n to th e piece reads: "D e p icts tw o m illio n p la stic beverage bottles, the n u m b e r used in the United States every five m inutes." The effect o f this and other images of hum an con su m p tio n on view ers occurs as follow s: I w as at an e x h ib itio n in Boulder, C olorado...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., more or less since receiving an invitation that had read, pis w rite a piece in Norwegian. Can I do this, distanced for many years absented. Very gradually I reach the conclusion that a bissextile year w its intersticial day mite prove propitious to, as they say, emptying ones bak, taking a long hard...
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