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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 71–82.
Published: 01 March 2015
... aginatively) a w o rld revolution attendant to the needs of m in o rity and non-W estern peoples. And third , both Hughes and Eisenstein m ade gender and sexuality central to these e ffo rts to rethink tim e and revolution. I w o u ld like to sug g est th a t these sim ila ritie s p o in t to a p re v io u s...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... However, she in part confirm s the narrative of a sexually liberated East. "In some cases," she argues, "changes in East German sexual behavior were m ore radical than those that took place in West G erm any and elsewhere in the developed w o rld " (9). W h a t was the basis o f this revolution...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Shelby Johnson Abstract Juliet Granville, the protagonist of Frances Burney’s novel The Wanderer (1814), enters the novel fleeing the French Revolution and disguised in blackface. This article argues that Juliet’s act of racial counterfeiting implicitly gestures toward the Haitian Revolution...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 107–120.
Published: 01 October 2018
... maintain their proximity to power. 8 In the final chapter of his book, titled “The City Revolutionized,” Rama argues that the cycle of revolutions that took place throughout Latin America in the early twentieth century—including the Mexican Revolution—“unleashed truly transformative forces in successive...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Securitization became necessary in such a globe, because no site could be le ft alone or, more im portantly, remain autonomous from the reach of empire. First, an 1802 Edinburgh Review o f Crisis o f the Sugar Colonies, a book treating w hat we today call the Haitian Revolution, warned against the "contagion...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution .” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 61 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 373 – 90 . King Martin Luther Jr. “ Letter from Birmingham Jail .” Published under the headline “The Negro Is Your Brother.” Atlantic , August 1963 , 77 – 88 . Ritchie...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of territorial and national wealth. Nueva Argirópolis is one part of a cinematographic project that brought together twenty-five directors for the occasion of the bicentennial of the Argentine revolution. Martel’s eight-minute story takes as its point of departure the ideas of Sarmiento, one of the founders...
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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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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
... . Johnson Shelby . “ ‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution .” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 61 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 373 – 90 . Kazanjian David . The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 April 2023
... they remain pure potential?—suggest at the very least that there will always be more questions to ask about insurrections. In this and other observations, Mazzaferro, Plasencia, and Smith identify another preoccupation of the three pieces under consideration: how insurrection and revolution, which...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2005
... TO THE DETESTED SHORE OF IRELAND IN FRANKENSTEIN It has become a critical commonplace to associate Franken­ stein s m onster with the promise and excesses of revolution. Ronald Paulson argues that Frankenstein can be read [as] an alle­ gory of the French Revolution, the attem pt to recreate m...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 170–179.
Published: 01 December 2005
... is the hum an body, which reinterprets the them e of the body as a temple. However, that argum ent is not as simple as it would seem at first. This is because many different cities figure prominently in the poem. In particular, Auden presents various cities and revolutions in part II of Memorial...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 123–139.
Published: 01 March 2015
... csta sy o f th e A n g e ls (T e n sh i no k o k o ts u 1972 5 The sexual revolutions that circulated within the new left uprisings mounted a significant challenge to repressive social institutions and prom pted a wide-scale shift in cinem atic engagements with sexuality. Wakamatsu's controversial...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 April 2024
... question of the influence of the Chinese state on leftist revolution in places like Borneo during the Cold War. Instead of answering this question through the perspective of foreign policy or history, Chang’s novel offers a tracing of ecological inheritances that precedes the Cold War, scaling to the level...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., and Christians. In particular, I focus on what I call the economics of spiritual exchange. To show what I mean, I center on the Renaissance of the twelfth century, a period of highly active spiritual exchange and comparison, a period also defined by the commercial revolution. 1 The mystical experience...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 143–150.
Published: 01 October 2019
... achieve a fascinating effect. The French Revolution and its motivational ideals survive only in memories. The ideational impetus for the Revolution exists as the artifact of the Paine book (in the diegetic space of the Natarajan-Ninan narrative). Paine’s animation—I mean it in the sense of being animated...
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 52–61.
Published: 01 June 2000
... that m an is d ear to m a n and that we have all of us one hum an h e a rt ( T he O ld C um berland Beggar 140 and June 2000 55 146). Since any other form of social activism would simply lead him to repeat what had already proved to be a failure in the French Revolution, any self-righteous condem...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and so on. Tools are thus "empirical simulations." W ith the Industrial Revolution, however, tools were no longer lim ited to empirical simulations; they grasped English Language Notes 49.2 Fall / W inter 2011 162 E n g l i s h L a n g u a g e N o t e s 4 9 . 2 (1) F a l l / W i n t e r 2 0 1 1 hold...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Is This Happening? (podcast), January 7 , 2021 . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-attack-on-the-capitol-with-ta-nehisi-coates/id1382983397?i=1000506688231 . Johnson Shelby . “ ‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution .” Eighteenth Century: Theory...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 51–61.
Published: 01 June 2003
... passages in Desmond read like pro-revolutionary propaganda, and E dm und B urke s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is vehem ently attacked by the title-character.4 Smith soon learned, however, that she would have to m oderate or disguise the political rhetoric in h er writ­ ings or pay a very...