Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 575
Search Results for reader
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
A History of African American Theatre African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 83–95.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Miriam Chirico A History of African American Theatre . Edited by Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . Pp. 608. hc. $130.00 0-521-62443-6. African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader . Edited by Harry...
View articletitled, A History of African American Theatre African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical <span class="search-highlight">Reader</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, A History of African American Theatre African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical <span class="search-highlight">Reader</span>
Journal Article
All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Ellen Lansky Abstract This essay situates Ernest Hemingway’s iconic “Hills Like White Elephants” as a short story about drinking. From this perspective, Hemingway’s story enables readers to experience a personal and deeply felt emotional engagement with the characters, the scene, and the situation...
Journal Article
Refusing Historical Amnesia: Emily Raboteau, Danzy Senna, and the American South
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Americans, Raboteau and Senna show readers how memorialization of black southern experience connects with communal or inherited familial memories. Their considerations of memory, and the attendant concerns about subjectivity and forgetting, demonstrate the central place of testimony to mnemonic restitution...
Journal Article
Borders Be Damned!
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Geary Hobson Abstract This article provides a summary of Canadian First Nations writing and publishing within the context of Native American literature, with references to the entire area of Western Hemisphere Native writing. Admittedly, some readers and scholars will notice the omission of certain...
Journal Article
Bound by Sovereignty: The Problem of Reciprocity and the “Indigenous Turn” in Medieval Studies
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 136–150.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Coulthard—in Dante’s Monarchia (and Paradiso ) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony provides an analytic example of this comparative framework, since both authors challenge readers to question the imposition of authority and the logics that legitimate and justify dominant forms of governance. Yet Dante...
Journal Article
“No Man’s Ocean Ever Did Get the Best of Me”: The Oceanic Journeys and Maritime Modernism of Romance in Marseille
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 April 2021
... as a revision of the narrative of liberating and luxurious ocean travel promoted by the shipping lines and argues that Romance in Marseille offers novel possibilities and implications for maritime and oceanic studies because it asks readers to recognize overlaps between different forms of mobility...
Journal Article
Queer Trauma in Caitlín R. Kiernan’s The Red Tree
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 50–65.
Published: 01 October 2021
... form and its use of dream sequences and unconsciously produced narratives, the novel invites readers to witness and consume Sarah Crowe’s trauma while loosely theorizing the relationship between trauma and queer temporality and spatiality. Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021...
Journal Article
Ghost Meat: Horror, Trauma, and Visceral History
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of historical trauma? How might they function as prosthetic memories, at once disturbing and informative to readers who might otherwise not be exposed to those histories at all? What are the ethical implications of horror elicited by fictional representations of historical suffering? This article engages...
Journal Article
Marketing Masks and Makeup in Mollie Panter-Downes’s “Letter from London”
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 37–48.
Published: 01 October 2022
... women, but also how a domestic purchase (like lipstick) became a weapon of war. The second and purposely camouflaged result of Panter-Downes’s descriptions of wartime capitalism was to market the war to New Yorker readers to garner American sympathy for, and support of, Britain’s ongoing struggle...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
The Self-Fashioned Writer’s “Confession”: Margery Kempe, Sylvia Plath, and Me
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 114–130.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and Kempe as women who dared to “[think their] own story might be meaningful” by actively shaping themselves with the texts they were reading; this not only invites devoted readers to do the same but also suggests that a more confessional mode of criticism may actually be a more ethical way of encountering...
Journal Article
Telephonic Modernismo : Latinidad and Hemispheric Print Culture in the Age of Electricity
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 90–103.
Published: 01 October 2018
...—and by envisioning a two-way flow of ideas between writers and readers. As US-based English-language newspapers developed emerging mass cultural forms that starkly divided producers and consumers, La Habana Elegante tapped into notions of simultaneity inspired by the telegraph and, especially, the telephone...
Journal Article
Bleak House in Real Time
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 March 2008
... what serial publication of Dickens's novel obligated readers to do by drawing out its reception over a span of one and a half years. If we begin the novel as spectators to the ongoing Chancery suit, by the novel's final instalm ent we are in a position resembling Miss Flite's caged birds to be released...
Journal Article
Introduction
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 91–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
... confusion has, ironically enough, likely seemed to many readers to describe the experience o f reading Bleak House. Reading the novel can be a dizzying process o f addition, if not m ultiplication, as over tim e there come to be tw o and three of everything, from Bleak Houses to Mrs. Bayham Badger's...
Journal Article
Hardy's Cliffhanger and Narrative Time
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 127–134.
Published: 01 March 2008
... being seen as homogeneous, atomistic, and irreversible to being seen as hetero geneous, fluid, and reversible.8 These changes made themselves felt in literary texts by experimental w riters such as James Joyce and Marcel Proust. In asking his readers to attend to the radically different ways in which...
Journal Article
The “I” as Engagement; Text as a Site of Contact
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2012
... riv ile g e those w h o are w h ite , w ealthy, stra ig h t, m ale, and able. In a poem, the self can claim autho rity usually reserved fo r the privileged and the self can speak. Situated to engage differing perspectives of the poem's readers, especially those born from m ainstream th o u g h t...
Journal Article
The Ear of the Eye, or, Do Drawings Make Sounds?
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 193–209.
Published: 01 September 2008
... bande dessinée) are, despite outward appear ances, constructed as a form o f correspondence, offering the illusion of a private com m u niqué between artist(s) and reader(s), like a child w ho draws som ething and then shows it to a friend.This illusion, in which the subjectivity o f the reader...
Journal Article
Visual Provocations: Using GIS Mapping to Explore Witi Ihimaera's Dear Miss Mansfield
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., their Eurocentrlsm. A clear signal o f this disruption comes in the prefatory letter to the volum e, addressed to Mansfield, in which Ihimaera characterizes the book as a "token of aroha and respect."6 Such linguistic code-switching acts as a rem inder to non-M ãori readers especially those outside New Zealand...
Journal Article
Dead Letters and Circulating Texts: On the Limits of Literary Archiving
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 March 2007
... a period of original production and reception. Scholarship itself becomes archival insofar as it circumscribes textual meaning in the distant past rather than exploring the text's ongoing circulation, its interpretation by new readers and its potential impact on them. Just as the physical object of study...
Journal Article
On Reading Ukrainian Literature in the 1920s and Now
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 137–139.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and global security. The article reads like a poetry translation workshop, with Ivashkiv comparing interlinear and published translations, as well as proposing new versions. He reassures his readers that “poetry is translatable,” 5 which should be seen as an invitation to translate more, although...
Journal Article
News and Novel, Pulse and Sprawl
Available to Purchase
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with the tim ings meted out by the playwright and performers. Novel tim e is different.The lengthiness of the text precludes the possibility of a playhousestyle contract between author and audience (a fixed duration, signed over all at once), and ensures delay o f the plainest practical kind: the reader's...
1
