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Iron Man's Heart
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 197–206.
Published: 01 March 2012
... w ith m y parents' divorce, and to a lost Invincible Iron M an com ic book of my childhood in which playboy m ilita ry-in d u stria list,T on y Stark, stripped o f his w ealth, his cred it, and his hom e, ran desperately th ro u g h the N e w Y o rk City rain as his o w n heart slow ed. Car, roo m...
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Canal Zone Modernism: Cendrars, Walrond, and Stevens at the “Suction Sea”
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
...: “Huddled in thick European coats, the passengers” of the ship “viewed from their lofty estate the spectacle of two naked Negro boys peeping up at them from a wiggly bateau .” 32 Here Walrond offers a stark contrast between West Indian migrant labor and a form of tourism that collapses belle epoque...
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Silence and Violence in the Archive of Slavery
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of slavery and the slave trade, but these numbers deny the human experience, allow us to take comfort in abstraction, and reveal themselves “for the fictions that they were—false representations meant to make a stark political contest over the commodification of a human life as a natural and foregone...
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Ghostly Outlines
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 225–228.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and celebrate some of the beauty borne in the terror of the hold. 8 Faced with “stark outlines” (Hartman) and “ghostly” “fragments” (Smallwood), scholars must invent imaginative toolkits, such as Hartman’s critical fabulation or the alternative narrative forms Smallwood hopes will result in a more rigorous...
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Shakespeare: The Two Traditions
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 79–81.
Published: 01 September 2001
... for visual design. He has a keen sense of how stage space and prop erties can help to define a play s action, as in C o nrood s 1996 New York production of Henry VI. In the section on film, he details the way that stark images in L u rh m an n s Romeo+Juliet, such as the stone m adonna on the church...
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Critiquing the Global Clothing Chain in Mauritius: Christine Duvergé’s The Lives of Loréna ( Les Vies de Loréna )
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
...). Despite Denis’s improved economic situation after Loréna’s marriage to Andrew, his stark prediction, “We’re born poor and we drop dead poor” (On naît pauvre et on crève pauvre) ( VL , 56), comes true in more than one respect. First, Denis cannot escape the effects of his past hardships, and his own life...
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Afterword
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 95–99.
Published: 01 April 2023
... suggest, has brought them into focus with a stark clarity reminiscent of what Walter Benjamin describes, in his lyrical meditation “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” as memories flashing up “at a moment of danger.” 1 The intensified insight that has surfaced with the pandemic has shown the need...
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Zenocrate: Not Just Another “Fair Face”
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Newark: U of Dela ware P, 1997) 143-48; and Lisa S. Starks, Won with thy words and conquered with thy looks : Sadism, Masochism, and the Masochistic Gaze in 1 Tamburlaine, Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe, ed. Paul...
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Lyric Commodification in McKay’s Morocco
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Morocco provides a stark tonal shift from McKay’s early sonnets as well as a new form. Simply put, it’s hard to know what McKay is doing here, and even though Tétouan would have been relatively inaccessible to his readers, there is hardly enough here to get a clear impression of the town, especially...
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“No Man’s Ocean Ever Did Get the Best of Me”: The Oceanic Journeys and Maritime Modernism of Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... The paucity of oceanic travel in fiction stands in stark contrast to the historical facts, with Harris Feinsod describing ship voyages as “a more pedestrian reality for writers of the modernist period than . . . for any period before or after.” 6 By the late 1920s, when Romance in Marseille is set, steam...
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Aural Chiaroscuro: The Emergency Radio Broadcast in Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
..." by forging a false weather report and fake Spanish and orchestral music program s.9These commonplace shows stand in for the banal program m ing that w ill soon figure in stark contrast to the jo lting simulated news flashes. W hatever authenticity Welles captured in his fabrication of the emergency report...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2023
... explanation, however, lies in the difference in vaccination rates between Republican and Democratic voters. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report from December 2021, 59 percent of Republicans had been vaccinated by November that year, in stark contrast to the Democratic rate of 91 percent. 4...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... along stark and particularly racialized lines. The war on drugs is one of the most prominent examples of a state-sanctioned discriminatory practice, one that led to the disproportionate incarceration of people of color. 26 Even as Reagan claimed to address a pressing social problem when he announced...
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A Post-9/11 Passion Play
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 247–252.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the scourging, as a per verse Madonna figure holding a strange, elderly faced child.) But with the crucifixion, and Jesus's call to his Father to forgive mankind, Satan tw ists in torm ented defeat at the bottom o f a pit, shown in stark contrast to Jesus's victorious sacrifice. The film viewer is offered...
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“Making a Place for Fear”: Toni Morrison's First Redefinition of Dante's Hell in Sula
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (3): 68–75.
Published: 01 March 2000
... also were they with people. (89) The com m unity is passive in its acceptance of evil, in stark c o n tra st to S h a d ra c k s stru g g le to m ake a place fo r fear. Shadrack s struggle, like D an te sjourney, is the only way to con fro n t hell and thus to survive it. The com m unity s flaw...
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In Praise of the Fake Memoir
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 119–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
... memory, and told in present tense, the book purportedly tells the story o f a boy w ho endures horrors as he survives on the margins o f various concentration camps w ith other orphans.The book's prose is stark and sim ple and told in a kind of PTSD fog that's compelling. When the book's German publisher...
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Bleak House in Real Time
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in London. W oodcourt's self-denial presents a stark contrast to Richard Carstone's im pulsive ness in m oving from one profession to another w ith little foresight. W hile Woodcourt's dis cipline is ultim ately rewarded by the novel, the high cost is apparent in the em otional toll taken on Esther's...
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Playing Pandemics
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 22–29.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to the design choices of disease within games, some games bridge the gap between the thematic and the real by unintentionally modeling how diseases spread. World of Warcraft, for example, accidentally released a disease into its world, a stark reminder of the volatility of a contagion even if virtual. In 2005...
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After the Truth: Thomas's “After the Funeral” and the Paradox of the Liar
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 70–78.
Published: 01 March 2002
... all in a synesthetic tour de force in memorial to Ann Jones. Thus, the poem offers a two-act narrative o f crisis and over coming, within which Thomas appears to define and struggle with several stark choices: regressive fantasy against adult re sponsibility; silence against assertion of poetic...
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“I Come From the Great World”: Imperialism as Theme in Wells's “The Country of the Blind”
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 65–75.
Published: 01 September 2004
... empire with himself as absolute m ler prove artless and incompetent, foolish and short-sighted. O n almost every level, Nunez and all that he represents stand at stark odds with the indigenous people of the lost valley. Whereas the outsider is arrogant and wrathful, the blind natives are humble...
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