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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
... the famed anthropologist Franz Boas, who hired 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
.... While haunted technologies represent a cornerstone of J-horror, however, the uncanny quality of many such narratives is equally indebted to a more primitive source of anxiety: the fear that via emergent modes of representation, communication, and consumption, the repressed of culture might make...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 April 2020
... successor in his post at the BAE, offers a brief comparison of these versions’ plot points in “This Island, the World on Turtle’s Back” (1962). Joseph Campbell retells the story with an accompanying meta-analysis of its place in the mythology of other “primitive planters” in Mythologies of the Primitive...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 123–142.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., not to the people or communities. I was an ethnographer. I was interested in telling stories; I was interested in thinking about power. I started to think a lot about how Tibetan people were racialized as primitive because they were religious. Whereas Native people were racialized as primitive because they were...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 83–100.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to a Eurocentric and settler-colonial framework. Other relevant comparative approaches—Watkins et al.’s references to Chinese and Indian medicines and Van Arsdall’s comparison to curanderismo —do not rely on the connection of supposedly shared primitiveness of the subjects to justify the comparisons. Instead...
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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
... but is a conventional Western trope. For a fuller examination of the modern/primitive dichotomy, see Torgovnick, Gone Primitive ; and McClintock, Imperial Leather . 31 Welters and Lillethun, Fashion History , 34 . [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022...
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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
... that “fishermen wore them as a religious garment.” The video amasses assertions of the sacred meanings, simultaneously mystifying and romanticizing both the sweater and the islands it claims for the sweater’s origin, even evoking the “primitive” nature of the islands with its hand-knitters and exaggerating...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
... into the circulation of global goods under the tag of primitive authentic events. I can mention different examples, such as the pet food that makes dogs become wolves; the Paleo diet, which helps you lose weight but is inspired by the diet of the people of the Paleolithic; the ceremony of Ayahuasca that takes place...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 21–36.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... 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. In The Spectacular Modern Woman Liz Conor discusses a cartoon by B. E. Minns: In the 1928 cartoon from the Bulletin...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 October 2020
... 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 of capitalist exploitation (as it was for Marx) but rather instantiates how dispossession has...
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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
... Riggs’s point of view, “Fallen Star ” (and the Dakota 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...
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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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