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Shakespeare's Promises
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 80–82.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Joan Lord Hall Shakespeare's Promises . By William Kerrigan . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1999 . Pp. Xviii + 243. $38.50 . 0-8018-6163-2. Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 80 English Language Notes Shakespeare s Promises...
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Claude McKay’s Bad Nationalists: Colonial Passport Controls and Shipping Damages in Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a generative tension between the imperial national forms the author encountered in North Africa and the Black nationalist vision of Marcus Garvey’s Back-to-Africa campaign. Reading the dialectics of bad nationalisms and Black internationalisms, the article explores how the utopian promise for Black liberation...
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“Broken Bits of Color in the Dirt”: The Afterlives of Slavery and the Futures Past of a Black Intersectional International in Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 12–37.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., the Bolshevik Revolution and the burgeoning of its stiflingly bureaucratic Thermidor under Stalin, the various theoretical and programmatic complications that issues of race and gender posed for international socialism alongside the promises and disappointments of emancipatory politics writ large. However...
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Why I Still Believe in Chicanx Studies
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 104–106.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of Chicano in her first book to her academic press editors, the author meditates on the politics of Latinx versus Chicanx, the pitfalls and promises of nationalist discourse, and the need to nurture and cultivate a vibrant Chicanx studies as a counter to the neocolonial tendencies of academic...
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“No Man’s Ocean Ever Did Get the Best of Me”: The Oceanic Journeys and Maritime Modernism of Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., promised potential passengers cabins that were “roomy, airy, and all outside,” while promoting their ships’ “refined environment, cleanliness in all departments on board, fine French cuisine and pleasing service of the officers and crew.” 1 A year before, Claude McKay, inspired in part by an incident...
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Preserving Aesthetic Ecstasy: Bohrer's Suddenness and the Moment of the Modern
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 209–218.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., they anticipate one or the other w ith o u t knowing which can satisfy this anticipa tion. In this respect, their anticipation does not disappear w ith their appearance. Rather, the ir appearance is maintained as w hat always remains w ith o u t determined meaning even though the promise o fth a t meaning...
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On Insurrections
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 April 2023
... an impossibility. What if “land back” were not a slogan but a promise? The radical assuredness of the activism of Wedderburn and Wheatley reminds me of literal—not symbolic—Indigenous land back movements, which intersect in important ways with global civil rights and antislavery movements. Wedderburn warns...
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Shakespeare's Romances and the Politics of Counter-Reformation
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 82–85.
Published: 01 June 2001
... complexity (206); it invites the audience to question the very code of promising that can allow Othello, after basely m urder ing Desdemona, to justify his action as an honorable m urderer. K errigan s readings are vigorous, often laced with humor. T here is his earthy no tin g o f how P ortia sacrifices...
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Afropessimism, Liminal Hotspots, and Claude McKay’s Aesthetic of Sovereign Rejection in Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... McKay reckons with this “anti-Blackness,” in direct challenge to Marxist analytic traditions, it is worth turning to new work in the growing field of “Afropessimism.” In particular, it is worth beginning with work that attends to the repeated rejection of people of color from a form of the promise...
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Fake You!
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 142–144.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a letter purportedly written by Charles Dickens in November 1868 that promised to donate all his earnings from an upcoming reading to the Printers’ Almshouses. The letter, with its strikingly generous offer, was quickly reprinted by newspapers. But Dickens never wrote it, and within days his publisher...
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Living Memory, Embodied Experience, and What Gets Lost in the Story of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 October 2019
... no longer seems so sure of the poem’s outcome—a promised artistic recovery—or so certain what this story means in relation to the human body. Bodily vulnerability may not be so easily rectified. Certainly, when his heroine ventures into the underworld—another of the changes Pope makes when he returns...
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Casting Lots, Cannibalism, and Contracts in William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 September 2010
... American culture. Sim ply put, classical contract theory pre sumes that autonomous agents exchange promises, which signify their consent to the term s of the agreement and their intention to act a certain way in the future.22 In this sense, the ability to enter a contract is itself a marker of freedom .23...
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Clearings and Transmissions: Mysticism, Repetition, and Critique
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
... as old as Plato. 21 Reduced to tropes of unveiling and unmasking, the revelatory promise of critique is one of liberation from the putatively restrictive and unreflective habits of imitation. 22 Critical interpretation is, in this view, a therapeutics, an escape from the shadows of the cave...
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The Religious Turn: Exegesis against and the Theological Imaginary
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 157–162.
Published: 01 March 2006
... reference is to Exodus 32, where Moses is on Mount Sinai speaking w ith God, when God notices the people w orshipping the golden calf. God then promises to kill all o f the people, but Moses intercedes and God repents. Im mediately thereafter, in an act which goes unexplained, Moses him self does what he...
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Archival Excess in Latinx Print Culture: US National Latinx Literature
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 67–70.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., indexical of cultural life and alternative histories that redefine intellectual history in more inclusive terms. At least that is the promise of an unstable, contingent, and porous national archive. An unstable archive reflects the movement or even the tenuousness that so often characterizes...
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The Rhetoric of Poverty and the Poverty of Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Jack Cade and the Early Modern Rhetoric Manual
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 September 2003
... But social mobility, or what Wayne A. Rebhorn terms the fantasy of social mobil ity created by the rhetoric manuals,5 constituted a threat to an aristocracy whose wealth was declining.6 As such, the rhetorical manuals typically disclose an inherent ambivalence: while at once promising the means...
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The Ironic Hercules Reference in Death of a Salesman
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 73–77.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Language Notes tined for future greatness in professional sports, politics, busi ness, anything and everything he chose to tackle after high school. In praise o f Biff s youthful promise, Willy offers an im portant if brief mythological allusion to one of the most beloved of all Greek heroes, but, like...
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Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Pandemic Times
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 51–62.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Bloch Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege. The promise, if not ideals, of democracy are receding as twenty-first-century authoritarians breathe new life...
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Serial Killing Serial Children: Dexter's Counterfeit Families
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 51–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to Scott: ARTHUR: Don't you understand? Father drinks, and m other pays the price. I'm just trying to protect you, Arthur. SCOTT: M y name is Scott! ARTHUR: You're a dear boy, A rth u r . . . so innocent, kind-hearted. Promise me you'll always stay this way.13 This replacement or "co un te rfe it" Arthur...
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Reconstructing the Sacred: Latina Feminist Theology in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 191–197.
Published: 01 March 2006
... is not personal and sexual, but corporate, reflected in the neglect, violence, and sexism o f both the church and secular society. In "One Holy Night," sim ilarly, Cisneros rejects the identification of emerging female sex uality w ith sin. The narrator, a young girl seduced by a man w ho promises to love her...
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