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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and literature, discussion of medieval music, historiography about the period, and so on have assessed the Middle Ages as a time of naïveté, superstition, and violence by individuals who were not fully formed. To this day, the term medieval carries the derogatory connotation of “primitive.” This language...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of “strategic primitivism.” Tracing the development of McKay’s primitivism from Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo (1929) to his most recently published novel, this essay suggests an evolution along philosophical, political, and stylistic lines. Romance in Marseille deconstructs the primitive/civilized binary...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 102–115.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of the aesthetic impulse. Though I read the event depicted in Wordsworth s poem Nutting as an example of primitive art in Hegelian terms, I wish to emphasize the resistance that the poetic text poses to the philosophical. I also suggest that Wordsworth finally subverts Hegel s account of the end of the aesthetic...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 75–79.
Published: 01 June 2005
... novel The Inheritors (1955) has righdy received attention primarily for its narrative technique. Its attem pt to ren der the primeval consciousness and primitive understanding of the world through the portrayal of Neanderthal man has drawn admiration and criticism;6 like Lord of the Flies it conveys...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 158–177.
Published: 01 April 2020
... her in 1927 to correct and retranslate Dakota and Lakota texts collected by early nineteenth-century missionaries and ethnologists who desperately wanted to preserve traditional oral stories as a record of a primitive people rapidly nearing extinction. ...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to occult American fiction, he parallels to the ancient ruins of H. P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness . Lovecraft imagines a place that predates geological time and that evokes in his characters “a sheer primitive anxiety to see all we could.” 10 He also describes various...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 April 2020
... (accessed December 2 , 2019 ). Campbell Joseph . “ The Iroquois .” In Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas . Part 2 of The Way of the Seeded Earth . Vol. 2 of Historical Atlas of World Mythology , 131 – 63 . New York : Harper and Row , 1989 . Campbell...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 83–100.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in between orality and literacy. However, Davis ultimately sees the Old English medical corpus as “primitive” and compares it, in two notes, to Cherokee medicine. Davis problematically conflates orality and primitiveness, even claiming that only literate cultures are capable of effective medical practice...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 92–102.
Published: 01 April 2020
... accounts of various writers—from Jean de Léry to Alexander von Humboldt, about how uncivilized and unconvertible to Christian faith those “primitive” Indians were—that they acquired the admiration and dignity of many voyagers, both religious and, in most cases, “scientific.” Those first “uncivilized...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
...-called primitive and tribal peoples was considered “outside of fashion,” and the dress practices of the West were regarded as superior to those of all other cultures. 31 Welters and Lillethun argue that such intractable ideas about the conceptual policing of borders shaped fashion theory until...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 33–47.
Published: 01 September 2007
...-1933, Cinema and Modernism , ed. James Donald, Anne Friedberg, and Laura Marcus (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998); Jean W alton, "W hite Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer M atrix o f Borderline" OutTakes: Essays on Q ueerTheory and Film, ed. Ellis Hanson (Durham: Duke UP, 1999). 6Ellis vetted...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 23–26.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., leaping momentarily ahead of other revolutions. D eclining Chic thoughts of m odernist androgyny aside, these semi primitive demi-yawps are remarkable in a very eighteenth-century fellow not easily (as Forster says) aroused who had turned his portly young back to a w om an s passion, who had coldly...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 144–155.
Published: 01 October 2022
... for the sweater’s origin, even evoking the “primitive” nature of the islands with its hand-knitters and exaggerating the difficulty of Aran knitting. 23 This flagrant exaggeration illustrates a phenomenon of Irish postcolonialism in its use of playful, even archly disingenuous, oral practices...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., evangelized by the missionaries who saved children from rubber slavery but who punished them for speaking their own languages or practicing their rituals, both of which are considered barbaric and primitive by the Catholic Church. The objective of the priests was to force the children to succumb...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 21–36.
Published: 01 October 2022
... representations of technology and their role in expanding opportunities for women’s engagement with modern society. Australian media from the 1920s, for example, consistently relegated aboriginal women to primitive others by denying them access to the modern technologies used by white women...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and documents. 31 One direction for such work is suggested by Coulthard’s revisions to Marx’s narrative of “primitive accumulation” from the first volume of Capital . 32 Coulthard argues that the alienation of peasant labor in fifteenth-century England was not in fact a temporally bounded precondition...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 March 2006
...-obsession of subject and model excluded from further consideration the contested object of desire. La violence et le sacré (1972) found this m im etic rivalry represented covertly but every where in myth and ritual, and Girard expanded his theory to provide a genetic model for all cultural forms. Primitive...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 178–185.
Published: 01 April 2020
... oral storytelling tradition in general) is a quaint story from a primitive people rapidly nearing extinction. Riggs’s goal was to document and record “the Dakota race” before “they passed away, as their own buffalo of the prairie.” He and his colleagues wanted to “retain an adequate memorial of them...
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 52–61.
Published: 01 June 2000
...] helpless ( The O ld Cum berland Beggar 23 and 25), and no m atter how he may actually depend on the charitable deeds of others for his primitive survival, W ordsworth forcefully contends th at he is n o t ju s t a recipient o f assistance and should n o t be treated so. T hough consistent with his life...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 21–42.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., was still bound to the Carmelite community. After all, monastic reform presumes devotion to, not disavowal of, an order. It was no different for the reform movement of Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, who called for a stricter adherence to the primitive Carmelite regula vitae , or “rule of life...
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