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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 241–246.
Published: 01 March 2012
... is the human attunement to this coexistence. Many of these objects are large enough to contain humans: biosphere, climate, evolution. The ecological emergency, then, is also an ontological emergency, in which we find ourselves inside an object, or rather, a whole series of them. An Abiding Sense...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the ordinary and mundane as equally sacred expressions of the whole. In this sense, Kedumah posits a mysticism that entails the normalization of the spiritual and the equalization of the sacred and profane. In this essay ancient Kabbalistic principles and biblical texts are examined to demonstrate this radical...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 227–230.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 217–222.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
Published: 01 October 2020
... is strikingly similar to discourse about colonized and other peoples who were contemporary with the researchers of the period. Focusing on a luminary scholar of the Middle Ages, the art historian Émile Mâle, this essay explores the link between the study of the medieval sense of beauty and the discourse...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to be human, and exert a muffling of the very agency that defines our sense of our exceptionalism. Yet horror and ecohorror also enthrall. They do so precisely because they provide a perversely traumatophilic/traumatophobic sensation, a paradoxical presence of opposites that somehow, like sweet-and-sour soup...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
... done before. In the end, how clearly he sees himself and his vocation remains an open question, but careful consideration of his story can illuminate vital details about dedication— addiction in the sense of steadfast devotion. Specifically, the novel explores how Mr. Stevens is embodied by his...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 21–36.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., presenting what Jessica Burstein describes as “cold modernism.” But these same publications also played on an imperialist sense of superiority, trafficking in racial slurs and cultural bigotry, a preponderant phenomenon described by Anne McClintock in her book Imperial Leather . Ultimately...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 September 2011
... identity as the "self" o f a person, and that practical identity w ould be instantiated in the brain.This is a different sense of "self" from the more m inim al, momentary, philosophical sense treated above. Given practical identity at the individual level, we need to distinguish tw o things. First...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 189–200.
Published: 01 September 2010
... o f ruins and fragments, as it is o f a single, intentional, purposively integrated architecture or design.Though Freud soon abandons the metaphor, it provides a useful way to express a sense of the significance o f Baudelaire's celebrated lyric poem, Le Cygne, and more specifically, of w hat...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2002
... fundam en tally opposed to o u r sense of what W ordsworthian writing is re ally like. P erhaps this is n o t surprising: even on th e m ost superficial level, there are comparatively few verbal echoes of Lucretius in his poems; m ore importantly, there is still a reluc tance to abandon the notion...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 143–145.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., but the word as notion and as historical agent.” 1 In his brief annotations, Nancy traces the “strange story” of the word communism , insisting that “no history, no etymology either can produce anything like [the] sense [of communism].” Here Nancy meditates on the metaphysical comportments of the word...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 81–90.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., not theirs, but I sense there is this underlying feeling o f being led astray). I had assumed that in the hum anities the "goals of the course" are not a closed set o f skills, or data to be learned; rather, humanistic learning builds on uncertainties w ithout the intention of coming out the other side w ith...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 19–33.
Published: 01 June 2001
... on knowing a woman knowing in the car nal sense pu n n in g with knowing in the sense o f recognizing and understanding. For a m an to know a woman carnally is literally to enter h er and ostensibly thus to know female sexual space by inhabiting it. Though the term is almost always used to refer...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 75–81.
Published: 01 September 2009
... land, where he learns about his fam ily history. He also learns about this history from Ern's archive of records and documents, but gradually Harley constructs his own form of fam ily history and gains a stronger sense o f his identity. In Benang, Scott interrogates the colonial drive to oppress...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 48–59.
Published: 01 September 2005
... whose essence is unknowable (220). For the fideist, first, faith is its own evidence, an internal recognition with no commensurate external dem onstration. Second, any normal sense of knowledge (or science) is pu t aside. Lastly, wisdom is seen as removed from the natural condition and experience...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
... central her relationship with her father has been to her life. She writes: I inherited my sense of displacement from my father. It had something to do with the legacy of our slave past. . . . But it had even more to do with the particular circumstances of my grandfather’s death. He was murdered...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 201–207.
Published: 01 March 2008
... / Summer 2008 202 E n g lis h L a n g u a g e n o t e s 46.1 S p r in g / S u m m e r 2 0 0 8 had occurred in the sense of space in the movies I was watching and that cinematic ontol ogy was being affected by digital aesthetics. Films like The M atrix clearly seemed to be inform ed by ideas o f virtual...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 71–74.
Published: 01 December 2000
..., marks his sense of the social distinctions that open doors to Tietjens, son of a country gentleman and heir to a network of assumed atti tudes and privileges, which he him self has to negotiate by seiz ing his chances. By the en d o f the novel, his rapid rise to Sir V incent has been accom plished...
