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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 131–132.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Nan Goodman [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Regents of the University of Colorado 2024 In his State of the Union speech on March 7, 2024, President Joe Biden put the plight of Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia front and center. Just minutes after beginning his speech...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to certify Joe Biden’s victory as the forty-sixth president. Americans still do not agree on what they saw that day or what it means. Two articles exploring literature of liberation point toward the long history of insurrection as a pathway to freedom, albeit pursued by those in different positions from...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 124–142.
Published: 01 October 2018
... by this president of a favorite tourist paradise for his US readers. However, the money generated by these grandiose projects was “distributed” very unevenly and better served the interests of Cuban investors and American interests, which set off a dramatic increase in protests by workers, trade unionists...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 51–62.
Published: 01 September 2010
... hoped: a new president, Franklin Pierce, was in office and attention was turning towards the domes­ tic problem s that would eventually result in the Civil War; furtherm ore, m any members of the press, when they finally gave com m ent on the treaty of Kanagawa, criticized its lack of trade rig hts...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
... (Palgrave M acm illan, 2002), and he is a past president and Executive Board m em b e r of the International Gothic Association, K elly H u rley is an associate professor o f English at the U n ive rsity o f Colorado at Boulder. She is the a u tho r o f The G othic Body: Sexuality, M aterialism...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 249–251.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Walkowitz is second vice president o f the Modernist Studies Association and co-founder of the NYNJ Modernism Seminar. M ark W ollaeger is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Joseph Conrad and the Fictions o f Skepticism (1990) and Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 71–83.
Published: 01 September 2010
... provinces" (43), Dixon appeals to President Lincoln's belief that the Union had never been split asunder because, lacking the right to secede, no "state" had left the nation. Thus, his fictional Lincoln proclaims, "These states must be im mediately restored to their rights, or we shall betray the blood we...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
....” Cardenal was therefore uniquely equipped, in 2014, to emerge from retirement for a withering editorial against President Daniel Ortega’s concession of a no-bid Nicaraguan canal project to the Chinese Telecom magnate Wang Jing—part of a new “connectography” that makes our age of capricious interoceanic cuts...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2009
... a r is W. M. Keck Professor and chair of the Department of English at Pomona College. He Is past president of the Modernist Studies Association, series editor of Modernist Literature & Culture for Oxford University Press, and the author or editor of a wide range of books and articles on modernism...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
... dictatorship, his people had elected him president for three consecutive terms—in a nascent democracy erected by US imperialism, no less. Practitioners of memory studies must shift from focusing on any one or three atrocities as epitomic measures for evil. Instead, it is time to focus on how the same divisive...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 63–69.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the following summer it seemed as if there would be no “if.” Even as the death toll soared and the president of the United States was suggesting that people could defeat the virus by injecting themselves with bleach, even as Penn State lost a student (Juan Garcia) to the disease, we plowed ahead with plans...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is the President of the Church, who, when he does, w ill declare it as revelation from God, and it w ill be so accepted by the Council o f theTwelve and sustained by the body of the Church."2This process has taken place each tim e new m ateri­ al has been added to the M orm on canon. W hile there is a process...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 48–50.
Published: 01 October 2018
... movement and transatlantic print-culture processes, the letters were drafted at first by Vicente Rocafuerte, a roving intellectual who later became Ecuador’s president. Rocafuerte took the letters to London and handed them to José Canga Argüelles, a Spanish economist and government minister who had gone...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 169–170.
Published: 01 March 2009
... nated. I recently published a President's Column in the MLA Newsletter (2008) pointing out the existence o f a split among college teachers of literature between those who assign only pri­ mary literary works and discourage students from consulting literary criticism and those w ho assign both...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 April 2024
... McLeod (1936–), the daughter of Johann Ferrier, the first president of Suriname, has written a number of historical novels—many from the perspective of Black women, freed and enslaved, in the colonial period. The Cost of Sugar became a bestseller and was turned into a film. While the novel centers...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 83–86.
Published: 01 December 2003
... such as Benjonson (who published his plays as Works and presided over the literary imagi­ 84 English Language Notes nations of the Sons of Ben John Dryden (who published Of Dramatic Poesy in 1668 and planned a second volume on epic and lyric poetry), Michael Drayton (who surveyed English po­ etry in To Henry...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 225–228.
Published: 01 April 2021
... numerical data. Newman’s microhistories stand alongside Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught : a book-length exegesis of a runaway ad tracing the enslavement and liberty of Ona Judge, who absconded from the household of President George Washington. 12 Dunbar relies on the written documentation...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 October 2018
... .” Cultural Dynamics 29 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 214 – 30 . Our current political climate calls for the affirmation of Latinx lives and the insistence on Latinx peoplehood, regardless of point of origin. It demands the rejection of the abject racism emanating from the US presidency, its pundits, media...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2023
... for now-President Biden.” “In October,” they continue, “the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth.” 3 State-specific policies regarding mandatory vaccinations, masking, and lockdowns are partly responsible for these figures. The more immediate...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 March 2006
... ith a m other who was a granddaughter o f the first President ofTaiwan, and a father who was once the personal physician o f Mao Zedong, serving later as a Presbyterian m inister in a small church in western Pennsylvania, are attested to both in the w ritings themselves and in biographical sketches...