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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jillian Heydt-Stevenson Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 THE LAST RUINS OF PALMYRA JILLIAN HEYDT-STEVENSON "Whoever saw Palmyra remains forever marked by the memory of the city which embodies the dignity of the entire Syrian people and humanity's loftiest...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 11–20.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of Art, to open the book of the grave, and to live there, however posthumously—such are the impossible sight lines ruins invite. Ruins alert to the eye to the double room of the past-as-future, an impossible shelter, a catastrophized nextness, abundant and pinched and splendid and toxic and eventful...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 April 2024
... narratives of place. It does so by staging a transformation of the settler Sinophone subject in Borneo, manifesting encounters in the Borneo rainforest that reveal the Indigenous experience of this insurgency and the cost of state-making projects in Borneo through environmental ruins such as elephant tusks...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 March 2016
... ility to p ro te c t, seal o ff, and s a fe g u a rd .1 By th a t m e tric th e ruined site is no site at all. But, o f course, in Rom anticism , ruins litte r the landscape of m any, if not all, o f the p e rio d 's w ritin g s . W h a t is th e s ig n ific a n c e th e n o f th e R om an tic site...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2013
... by the church o f St Peter's in the East."48 Contemporary interest in tem poral sim ultaneity was clearly inspired by architecture and its ruins, as though the more challenging concepts o f geology m ight thus be grasped on a smaller, human-made scale. Later In the nineteenth century, as technology permitted...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 143–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
... opolitanism , ruins, landscape architecture, literature and film , and Thing Theory. She is currently com pleting tw o books, Belongings in Eighteenth and N ineteenth-C entury French and British Literature and The Ruined City: Palmyra during the Romantic Era. 144 En g lish Language N otes 54.1 S pring/S um m...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the Panama Canal Zone—a figure for maritime globalization as the spatial form of capitalism—invite us to reassemble a vision of worldwide modernism structured by disparities among destructive French speculators, the acrobatic West Indians who perform their work among jagged ruins, and the Anglo-American...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that the meanings embedded in monument construction are not always stable; the emphasis on ruins that so effectively commemorated German civilian suffering at the hands of Allied bombers could also mark the absence of Germany’s Jews, who were either murdered or forced into exile, or the torture and execution...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2016
... plastic and resilient. O rrin N. C. W ang's "C h tho n ic 'M ic h a e l': S m ithson, Lévi-S trauss, Freud, W o rd s w o rth "e x p lo re s th e c le ft b e tw e e n c u ltu re and na ture in tw o site s: th e ruin e d S h e e p -fo ld in W o rd s w o rth 's M ich ae l and the slow ing ruination of Robert...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 59–68.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., 60.8). Later in the novel, Dorian reflects on the ruin that Time brought on beautiful and wonderful things (109), again with distinct Shakespearian overtones ( Tim e s ruin, beauty s wrack, Lucrece, 1451; Ruin hath taught me thus to rum inate / That Time will come and take my love away, Sonnet...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 25–43.
Published: 01 September 2006
... "old things," m ost o bviously architectural ruins and artifactual rem ains, b u t also th in g s p re su m a b ly less exo tic to th e p h o to g ra p h e r and yet, fo r a contem porary v ie w e r at least, redolent o f a desire to visualize history. Daguerre's im ages of shells, fossils, and plaster...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 23–33.
Published: 01 September 2011
... sentence of W riting the Disaster. "The disaster ruins everything, all the w hile leaving everything intact."7 I read Blanchot and thought that my experience of embodied subjectivity had indeed begun to resemble living w ithin an architectural structure whose interior had, one day, vanished, leaving...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 April 2018
... near describing the divine workings that are produced in my soul. My statements about them ruin the reality they represent.” 1 Perhaps a good place to begin in considering the difficulty of harmonizing mysticism and doctrine is to focus on the phenomenological (or experiential) character...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2003
... the old King Beowulf is dead and the dragon is slain, Wiglaf addresses the king s retainers who fled from the flight. These men not only reveal themselves as cowards by their flight, but as breakers of their solemn oaths to their lord, bringing shame and ruin upon themselves, their families...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 170–179.
Published: 01 December 2005
... (190). This is, in fact, the sort of place Auden imagines when he refers, later in the same part of the poem, to the ruins of the Post-Virgilian City (191). As I have argued elsewhere,24 if we consider the context with in which Auden wrote the poem, then these ruins make sense. Memorial...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 59–70.
Published: 01 March 2009
... was no man of business; I knew nothing about it & disliked the very name; to such a one the horrors o f commercial embarrassments and ruin are strange, and frightful and hum iliating . . . I w ent to my bed every night as to my grave . . . In the m idst of my distress I heard of my poor mother's death. She...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the declaration “Your beloved homeland was once known as the abode of Islam” that has now “turned to ruins”: Tell me, O Kashmiri Muslim, have you given any thought to the colorful garden full of possibilities, of whose trees you are an unsheathed leaf To pay respect to the knowledge and wisdom of your...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
... pissed on walls of buildings that were falling into ruin. So this was her reality?” (Sa tristesse augmentait devant la laideur et la saleté des rues de Flacq, des marchands qui braillaient en essayant de gagner leurs vies, des gens qui avançaient le dos écrasé par la pauvreté, des chiens errants qui...
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 41–50.
Published: 01 September 2001
... done. I ask for right. H ear me, Earth. H ear me, grandeurs of Darkness. Chorus'. It is b u t law th a t w hen th e red drops have b een spilled upon the ground they cry aloud for fresh blood. For the death act calls out on Fury to bring out of those who were slain before new ruin on ruin accomplished...
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (3): 76–79.
Published: 01 March 2000
... from Fortney s England s Interest and Improvement (1673) to Berkeley s A n Essay towards Pre senting the Ruin of Great Britain (1721) to Brown s Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757), or from N orth s Dis course of Coyned Money (1691) to Vanderlint s Money Answers All Things...
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