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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 91–108.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jack Dudley Abstract While Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy has been read through the uncanny human traumas and tropes of “contamination” in its first novel, Annihilation , the trilogy’s radical ecological thought emerges more clearly through cosmic and transformative trauma in the final...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
... thematization of uncanny spatial violations as indexing a minimally acknowledged guilt over the war in Iraq. The novel’s slippages in self-awareness not only point to an avoidance of its own scotomized history but also foreground the shifting boundaries and dispersed locations of textual self-consciousness...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the neoliberal homogenization of culture in vaporwave artist Begotten’s contributions to the hushwave subgenre of the scene (2018–19). Vaporwave’s cyclical and uncanny sounds embody the spectral haunting of Marx in capitalism’s repetitive pronunciation of victory over its vanquished, communist foe...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 241–246.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Scott Slovic Abstract What is called subjectivity is really just a small region of a much larger space of interactions between beings: coffee cups, sea foam, flakes of obsidian, and nebulae. To realize this is to enter into a larger world in which humans coexist with a plenitude of uncanny entities...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 247–251.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Margaret Ronda Abstract What is called subjectivity is really just a small region of a much larger space of interactions between beings: coffee cups, sea foam, flakes of obsidian, and nebulae. To realize this is to enter into a larger world in which humans coexist with a plenitude of uncanny...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 253–258.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Nicola Masciandaro Abstract What is called subjectivity is really just a small region of a much larger space of interactions between beings: coffee cups, sea foam, flakes of obsidian, and nebulae. To realize this is to enter into a larger world in which humans coexist with a plenitude of uncanny...
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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 (2022) 60 (2): 156–174.
Published: 01 October 2022
... another puppet-like doll—a faintly uncanny automaton, like Hoffmann’s Olympia. In Lagerfeld’s take on extreme francité , France was less a country than it was a commercial entity, an eerie doll. At the same time, the world of Chanel was for him nearly an entire country unto itself. “Chanel...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
... world. But novels like Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy of New Weird novels, Jack Dudley argues, reframe the vocabulary of trauma theory—breach, rupture, the uncanny return of the traumatic-repressed in defamiliarized form—in nonanthropocentric terms. The strangely beautiful new ecosystem...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 March 2010
... provides a new context fo r the consideration o f Psycho, or, to the extent that both film s can f i g u r e 1 : Déjà vu. Funny Games, dir. Michael Haneke (Wega Film, 1997) 1 16 E n g l is h L a n g u a g e N o te s 48.1 S p r in g / s u m m e r 2 0 1 0 f i g u r e 2 : Uncanny Resemblances. Funny Games U.S...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 193–209.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in figurative images that em ploy the sym bolic power of the signifier in uncanny images o f Otherness, rather than resorting to the iconography of m im etic imagery that English Language N otes 46.2 Fall / W in te r 2008 19 4 E n g l is h La n g u a g e N o t e s 4 6 .2 F a l l / w in t e r 2 0 0 8 dominates...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of instabilities that have marked late-capitalist existence, employing spectral technologies to signal the breakdown of familiar identity paradigms and sociocultural institutions. While haunted technologies represent a cornerstone of J-horror, however, the uncanny quality of many such narratives is equally...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 201.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to the uncanny possibility of God's presence. Patrick Pritchett U niversity of Colorado at Boulder English Language /Vofes44.1 Spring 2006 ...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 183–191.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to intergalactic dust clouds hides the rules of its game from all comers, including themselves. All entities then are what I've called strange strangers. A Darwinian view of lifeform s is properly uncanny, since lifeform s cannot by definition coincide w ith themselves in any i M o r t o n 18 5 sense...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
...," offering in its place an "uncanny stereoscopic v ie w in g experience" (w ith the rem ake s u p e rim p o se d upon an o rig in a l th a t is "a lw a ys present in its latent fo rm " ) and a dis co m fitin g "m e ta -cn tica l" awareness o f one's ow n p o sitio n ality as horror spectator. David Punter...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 201–207.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Place, after I put a coat on him, which accentuated his lanky frame, he really began to look like Mark to me, in uncanny ways. Ironically, although the ostensible subject matter is loss and grief, creatively speaking, the games provided me w ith a spark of life, because Mark got me shooting again, after...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 2006
... in the direction outside or otherwise than reason." Religion remains strange, uncanny, even somewhat w ild, in that it does not lend itself to cultural, materialist, or historicist modes o f analysis that attempt to tame its enigm atic nature. In "Notes on the 'ReligiousTurn': Mystery, Metaphor, Medium," Philip...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 March 2007
... research focus is on "textual lim its" particularly in terms of genre-crossing, metafiction, ghosts, the uncanny, and the sublime and he Is currently w riting a monograph on Paul Auster's fiction. William N. West is associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 101–109.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., 2002). 4 Here I am drawing on Schelling's famous definition of the Uncanny most familiar to us through Freud. Writes Freud, " "Unheimlich" [the Uncanny] is the name for everything that ought to have rem ained. .. secret and hidden but has come to lig h f (Schelling Sigmund Freud, "The 'Uncanny...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Keetley, “Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror,” 1, 4 . The six theses are as follows: (1) plants embody an absolute alterity; (2) plants lurk in our blind spot; (3) plants menace with their wild, purposeless growth; (4) the human harbors an uncanny constitutive vegetal; (5) plants will get...
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