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Flannery O'Connor on the West Side: Dr. Lyman Fulton's Recollections of a Short Acquaintance an Interview with Virginia Wray

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Virginia Wray
English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 71–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-39.1.71
Published: 01 September 2001
... Vulgate renders lama with ut quid. Joyce will have used (th e m ore familiar) rar to produce an HCE phrase. 2J.S. A therton, The Books at the Wake (London: F aber an d Faber, 1959) 183. FLANNERY O CONNOR ON THE WEST SIDE: DR. LYMAN FULTON S RECOLLECTIONS OF A SHORT ACQUAINTANCE AN INTERVIEW WITH VIRGINIA...
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First Words, Last Words: Phillis Wheatley’s Elegies to Children

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Andrea Haslanger
English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 127–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-7716207
Published: 01 October 2019
...Andrea Haslanger Abstract This short piece reads two of Phillis Wheatley’s elegies to children to reflect on how they represent the dead as speaking rather than silent. It considers how the deceased’s speech invokes different categories of the child, overlaying political and theological ideas about...
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Narrative of Origin and Utopia in Lucrecia Martel’s Nueva Argirópolis

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Leila Gómez
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 103–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8237443
Published: 01 April 2020
...Leila Gómez Abstract This article offers a reading of Lucrecia Martel’s film short Nueva Argirópolis (2010) in light of Domingo F. Sarmiento’s treatise Argirópolis (1850). Both Sarmiento’s text and Martel’s film address the question of landownership, river navigation, and the inequal distribution...
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Queer Trauma in Caitlín R. Kiernan’s The Red Tree

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Nowell Marshall
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 50–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277260
Published: 01 October 2021
... and short fiction. As astute as much of the critical work is, none of it addresses the cornerstone of Kiernan’s fiction: trauma. This essay considers Kiernan’s novel The Red Tree as a queer American gothic novel dealing with trauma and its lingering effects on its witnesses. Through its complex, fragmentary...
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All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway

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Ellen Lansky
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 139–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9560265
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...
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the land of dreams

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Ather Zia
English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 15–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-10782032
Published: 01 October 2023
...Ather Zia Abstract In this short piece of dystopian speculative fiction, Kashmiris are forbidden to dream. Copyright © 2023 Regents of the University of Colorado 2023 Kashmir speculative fiction I see the dead body of the young boy in my head. After the word got out that he had begun...
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En Homenaje a Latinx Studies: From Charlottesville, August 2017

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Anna Brickhouse
English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 44–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-6960713
Published: 01 October 2018
...Anna Brickhouse Abstract This short essay was written in the days after white supremacists and neo-Nazis invaded the campus of the University of Virginia and downtown Charlottesville, many of them heavily armed and dressed for combat. After offering a brief reflection on how Latino/a/x studies...
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Saki's Dependent Dissidence: Exploring “The East Wing”

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Brian Gibson
English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 39–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-42.3.39
Published: 01 March 2005
...Brian Gibson Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 March 2005 39 SAKTS DEPENDENT DISSIDENCE: EXPLORING THE EAST WING Saki, the literary pseudonym of H ector Hugh Munro, wrote two novels, four plays, and nearly 150 short stories between 1900 and 1916 (when M unro...
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“You May Have Changed My Life”

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Marjorie Curry Woods
English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 159–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.159
Published: 01 March 2009
... terned. One o f m y favorites, fo r example, is this abbreviation o f Book 4 o f the A eneid: "He came, she saw, she died." W hat I learned from Geoffrey was to give extreme assignments: as short as possible, as concentrated as possible, and as structured as possible.8 Im itation, variation, and playful­...
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Natural Education in Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Woman and Rousseau’s Emile

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Catherine Engh
English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 43–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-7716136
Published: 01 October 2019
... travel journal, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark . 3 In her last fiction, Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman , sensibility is affiliated with memory, natural beauty, and religious belief. Wollstonecraft asks: Can the memory of natural beauty, and the simultaneous...
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An Old Poem Embedded in a Final Thought on the Airplane

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Noah Eli Gordon
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-46.1.153
Published: 01 March 2008
...Noah Eli Gordon Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A n O ld Poem E mbedded in a F in a l T h o u g h t on the A irplane N o ah E li G o r d o n About five years ago, I w rote a short poem called "Yesterday I Named a Dead Bird Rebecca." The title came to me w hile...
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“Of Two Classes”: Social Darwinism in Richard Connell's “The Most Dangerous Game”

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Terry W. Thompson
English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 66–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-41.3.66
Published: 01 March 2004
...Terry W. Thompson Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 66 English Language Notes OF TWO CLASSES : SOCIAL DARWINISM IN RICHARD CONNELL S THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Winner of the prestigious O. Henry Award for Short Fiction in 1924, The Most Dangerous Game is the only...
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Hanif Kureishi: A Life in Accelerated Popular Culture

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Steve Redhead
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 179–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-46.1.179
Published: 01 March 2008
... O'Toole as an old man infatuated w ith a young girl and directed by Kureishi's long-time film collaborator Roger Micheli. Venus, drawing on Kureishi's reading of Japanese m odernist fiction, was released to critical (in both senses) acclaim in autumn 2006. In 2007, his award w inning short story "W...
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Rubén Darío, Latino Poet

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John Alba Cutler
English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 71–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-6960768
Published: 01 October 2018
..., roll 4028, Washington, DC. 15 Meyer, Speaking for Themselves , 70 . 14 Chacón’s writings are available in The Writings of Eusebio Chacón . For more on Chacón’s short novels, see Cutler, “Eusebio Chacón’s America.” 13 Meléndez, Spanish-Language Newspapers , 135 . 12...
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A Phenomenal “Occurrence” at Owl Creek Bridge: The Presence of Emanuel Swedenborg and Henry James, Sr.

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James Duban, Solomon Sallfors
English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 33–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-42.3.33
Published: 01 March 2005
... n : Epistemological Skepticism, Historical Revisionism, and the Transgressions of Boundaries in Ambrose Bierce s Short Stories, in ReVisioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction, ed. Bernd Engler and Oliver Scheiding (Trier, Germany: Wissenschafdicher, 1998): 183210; D...
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Of Handwriting, Typewriters, and a Writer's Block, or How the Playwright Learnt to Drive a Car and Stopped Worrying about Writing Another Word

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Jan Baetens
English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 93–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-51.1.93
Published: 01 March 2013
... that contains an em pty sheet o f paper. After turning the page, the reader sees how the play­ w rig h t kicks off his boxer shorts, a clothing item that occupies exactly the same place on the page as the useless typewriter. Through this com position, The Playwright exhibits the glob­ al transition from w...
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An Unnoticed Biblical Allusion in Finnegans Wake

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Howard Jacobson
English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 70–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-39.1.70
Published: 01 September 2001
... RECOLLECTIONS OF A SHORT ACQUAINTANCE AN INTERVIEW WITH VIRGINIA WRAY During the spring o f1999,1 had the pleasure of meeting Lyman A. Fulton, M.D., in Banner Elk, North Carolina, on the campus ofLeesMcRae College, where Dr. Fulton is a trustee. He knew that I had done some work on Flannery O Connor sfiction...
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Theater in Lockdown, or a Performance-Studies Paradox

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Barbara Fuchs
English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 70–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-10293173
Published: 01 April 2023
... their contradictions) purposively offering to bring solace. Our erstwhile partners at Red Bull soon proved to be pathbreakers, quickly launching live Zoom readings of Jacobean plays and negotiating with performers’ unions about how to conceptualize the new form they were pioneering. Sweet Land cut short its run...
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The Edge of Meaning

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Scott R. Stalcup
English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 95–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-42.4.95
Published: 01 June 2005
... limi­ tations. Think of when someone borrows the French term je ne c est quoi, literally m eaning I d o n t know what, to define the appeal of something. The only way to define the undefinable is by defining it and therefore, one falls short. White writes, W hat is the experience of learning...
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How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land?

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Charlotte Sussman
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8721688
Published: 01 October 2020
... in which the German writer Mieke Ziervogel worked with nine people living in a Lebanese camp to combine their separate short fictions into a longer narrative. In the three volumes of Refugee Tales (2016–19), edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus, poets and novelists (including Ali Smith and Bernardine...
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