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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 114–130.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Ellen Stenstrom Abstract This article brings together two literary icons of personal “confessional” writing, Sylvia Plath and Margery Kempe, to examine—among their other uncanny transhistorical similarities—the way in which both women consciously self-fashioned their personhoods...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 50–59.
Published: 01 December 2005
... covered none of his sentiments, to that of his English contemporaries, with more refined but dou ble characters. 10 The doubleness remarked by commentators of the time bears an obvious relation to the notion of self-fashioning, a term popularized by Stephen G reenblatt s 1980 study and since taken...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 65–76.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and interventions makes visible the influ ences o f disco and freestyle music that I argue afforded Selena the self-fashioning and vocal repertoire not merely for establishing a career but for existing and thriving within a hostile and sexistTexMex music industry that I contend even today still actively works...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 189–194.
Published: 01 September 2006
... to participate in the A m erican dream left him hom eless and h ungry in the very neighborhoods he w o u ld later d o cum ent as a police reporter fo r the N ew York Tribune. Indeed, even th o ug h he fashioned h im self an Am erican in his autobiography, The M aking o f an Am erican, his fe llo w reporters...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 96–98.
Published: 01 June 2002
... their written record to a textual analysis which it surely cannot beat: he him self describes his criticism as unapologetically inferential. In two letters, w ritten a year apart, Byron com plains, am ong other things, that his tutor had called him a black guard. Elledge has a learned note of some 400 words...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 31–40.
Published: 01 March 2004
... stalagtites? Personal vanity is one reason: Pope s grotto, actually more of a tunnel that led from under his house to a rustic temple in his garden, was his unique showpiece, at once a retreat and a museum. Its careful adornment represents the poet s self-fashioning. Not only a bitter satirist, he is also...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 September 2003
... it in Shakespearean Inscriptions: The Voicing of Power, Shakespeare and the Ques tion of Theory, eds. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman (New York: Routledge, 1985) 116-38, 130. 7 Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980) 213. Joanna Gibbs notes that Zenocrate, like all...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2013
... riters were active participants in m odernism's form atio n" (130, italics in o rig i nal). And they did so via the queer networks available through Stein's salon and beyond. Latimer's essay addresses questions of canon form ation, artistic self-fashioning, the recip rocal relations of avant-garde...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., as “Mohamed El-Adl” (image reproduced in Halim, Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism , 168 ). Like the photographs described in this essay, this small piece of cardboard gives us trace access to El-Adl and serves as a site of his self-fashioning that Anglophone critics ought not to further erode. 25 Baucom...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 156–174.
Published: 01 October 2022
... deuxième degré channeling of Coco. While Chanel’s Coco persona had been inextricable from her own life and fashions, its theatricality unacknowledged, Lagerfeld decked himself out as an obvious, self-conscious, campy fashion commodity ( fig. 4 ). Figure 4. Karl Lagerfeld holding a Karl Lagerfeld...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 9–21.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., capable of continuing to live after coming to be through the force of self-fashioning and self-determ ination by reason and w ill, In tha t way only autarchic life, which A ristotle understands as "th a t w hich when isolated makes life desirable and lacking in n o th in g ,"17 a life th a t enjoys...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 92–100.
Published: 01 March 2002
...). And it is by acts of will, M artin emphasises, that Boswell wins his rounds against hypochondria (145). T he tactic is quite deliberate, Bos well addressing him self often as you w ithstand pleasure he tells himself, in a typical entry, or you will be dissolved (149). Some aspects of this self-fashioning...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 29–47.
Published: 01 December 2002
... about her principal female precursors, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. These observations are instructive, both for what they point out about Hemans and Landon and for the perspective they provide on B arrett s self-fashioning at a crucial period in h er career. In a letter from July 15...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Stenstrom notes in her essay, “The Self-Fashioned Writer’s ‘Confession’: Margery Kempe, Sylvia Plath, and Me,” is an archival exercise of identity making, of individuation, voice, and being not unlike what we see in Plath and other women writers of her generation for whom language and archive mark...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 September 2003
... not adept at rhetorical self-fashioning. 10 Puttenham 249, 144, 250. 11 William G. Crane, English Rhetorics of the 16th Century, The Province September 2003 43 of Rhetoric, eds. Joseph Schwartz and John A. Rycenga (New York: Ronald Press, 1965) 221. 12 Quoted in Marion Trousdale, Shakespeare...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 149–159.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and sustaining attributes of hunger? No one knew better than fugitive and ex slaves how the hunger for self and survival could sustain, enliven, and enable com m unity 15 8 E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e N o t e s 4 5 .1 S p r i n g / S u m m e r 2 0 0 7 and self-fashioning. Only in facing our degrading legacies...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of this issue is especially charged since McKay gestures toward the imprint of Iberian and North African cultural flows on his self-fashioning, and toward the influence of their entangled histories on his conjoining of Atlantic diasporic with Mediterranean elements in his Black modernist poetics. In Romance...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 106–120.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to transition toward fashion sustainability. Nader El-Bizri explores how we experience the “spatial,” asserting that “depth is the most existential of all the dimensions, since it intrinsically belongs to our personal perspective that offers a self-openness to the world and onto an inter-subjective worldly...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., 31-36. 22 David G. Riede has discussed B arrett s Christianity w hat h e calls h e r fervent dissenting Protestantism in Elizabeth Barrett: T h e P oet as An gel, VP 32 (1994): 121-139. Riede rightly sees Christianity at th e h e a rt o f B arrett s early self-fashioning, although his essay...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 189–200.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by a sense o f the Law; on the other hand, the world of temporal power, society, and history, the world of self-fashioning, the w orld that Baudelaire wants dearly to w rite him self into even as he rebels against it and exposes its bad fa ith the w orld o f the law. In other words, the poem is overdeterm...
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