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Toward the Space between Words and Things: Omar Blondin Diop (Died in Detention)

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Cullen Goldblatt
English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 167–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-52.2.167
Published: 01 September 2014
... that we do. Discourses of m em ory about Gorée obscure particular historical institutions and dynamics: notably indigenous slavery and the role of African elites in the Trade and in the v io le n t exer­ cise of political power. Ibrahima Thiaw's "The Space Between W ords and Things: Historical M em o ry...
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Shadows of “Things That Have Been and Will Be” in Great Expectations (1861)

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Philip V. Allingham
English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 50–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-41.3.50
Published: 01 March 2004
... Bigelow and Temple Scott (NewYork: The Daves Press, 1906), VI, 116. 8See, for example, amazon.com, TheMan in theIron Mask, customer reviews. SHADOWS OF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN AND WILL BE IN GREATEXPECTATIONS (1861) Questionfrom a high school student:When Pip sees the shadows around Estella, is he...
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A Sotyl Thinge withouten Tonge and Teeth: Soul's Dialogue with Body, and Literature's Dialogue with Philosophy

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Robert Pasnau, Elizabeth Robertson
English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 135–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.135
Published: 01 March 2009
.... In response to these tendencies, ER has directed student attention to the importance o f understanding literature not as an expression o f an idea but rather as a "liv in g " thing. When viewed in this way, the literary text can be understood to engage just those faculties that make up the soul, reason and w...
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Figure 5. Ekeko, always depicted loaded with various things, symbolizes abundance for many Andean peoples, from southern Peru to northern Argentina and Chile. This is a representation of Ekeko at the entrance of the Feria de las Alasitas, La Paz, Bolivia, 2016. Personal archive.

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Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 5. Ekeko, always depicted loaded with various things, symbolizes abundance for many Andean peoples, from southern Peru to northern Argentina and Chile. This is a representation of Ekeko at the entrance of the Feria de las Alasitas, La Paz, Bolivia, 2016. Personal archive. More
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On Robert Fitterman's “Replacing References to Photography with References to the Web in Vilém Flusser's ‘Towards a Philosophy of Photography’ (1983)”

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Vanessa Place
English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 217–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-50.1.217
Published: 01 March 2012
...Vanessa Place Abstract This essay attempts to do two things which is really one thing. Flusser speaks eloquently about the use apparatuses and our own roles as users who “process and repurpose images and text.” In this essay, Robert Fitterman has taken Flusser at his word and plagiarized...
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What Shape?

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Warren Motte
English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 223–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-50.1.223
Published: 01 March 2012
...Warren Motte Abstract This essay attempts to do two things which is really one thing. Flusser speaks eloquently about the use apparatuses and our own roles as users who “process and repurpose images and text.” In this essay, Robert Fitterman has taken Flusser at his word and plagiarized...
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Next to Nothing: Poetic Information in Robert Fitterman and Vilém Flusser

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Patrick Greaney
English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 227–230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-50.1.227
Published: 01 March 2012
...Patrick Greaney Abstract This essay attempts to do two things which is really one thing. Flusser speaks eloquently about the use apparatuses and our own roles as users who “process and repurpose images and text.” In this essay, Robert Fitterman has taken Flusser at his word and plagiarized...
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Quidditas: Generic Identity in Hopkins's Poetry

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Dennis Sobolev
English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 74–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-38.3.74
Published: 01 March 2001
... of the material world; drawing this picture, Hopkins stresses that each thing is created to p erform one characteristic action: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies drawflam e;/As tum bled over rim in round wells/Stones ring. These are actions, in which the selves o f things are expressed. In the second...
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Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts: A Conversation

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Tarren Andrews, Wallace Cleaves
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 167–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-8558046
Published: 01 October 2020
... of that too. I do have a strange, not just bifurcated but trifurcated, identity where I am doing three things academically. That’s probably pretty common for a lot of Indigenous academics, but something that I don’t think gets looked at or thought about as much. Does that make sense? TA : It definitely...
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Introduction: Medieval Materiality

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Anne E. Lester, Katherine C. Little
English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 1–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-53.2.1
Published: 01 September 2015
... a t h e r i n e C. L i t t l e "But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings o f a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized. High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised." William...
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Mysticism and the Politics of Theory

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Eleanor Craig, Amy Hollywood
English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-4337305
Published: 01 April 2018
... sat at the feet of the Lord while Martha was busy with many things,” like the two depended on each other—Jesus and the disciples wouldn’t have been fed without Martha, and Mary couldn’t have sat at the feet of the Lord, contemplating his goodness, without Martha either—and yet the real goal is to love...
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The Dream Department

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Lyn Hejinian
English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 11–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.11
Published: 01 March 2009
... in this context presumably an academic department, of the sort one (to use a common phrase) "can only dream o f " the ideal department. I suspect that the convening o f this year-long series o f speaker events is intended as the dreaming of the dream departm ent as an intervention into the state o f things...
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On Coming Back as a Buzzard

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Lia Purpura
English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 135–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-49.2.135
Published: 01 September 2011
... around, mishaps side of the highway, over a cliff, more slow ly dispensed by poi­ so n do not have to be turned to a higher purpose. I step in. I make use of. And here, I'm w hittling away at the problem. As a buzzard, I'd know the end of a thing is precisely not that.Things go on, in their way. My...
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Serving His Lord: Ishiguro and Devotional Addiction

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Anthony Cunningham
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9560276
Published: 01 April 2022
... before him, so reflection bends his mind from things achieved to the regret of things lost, from his profession to personal affairs of love that might have been but were not. Moreover, the changes in his world shake his confidence, not only with respect to his role in an altered Darlington Hall but also...
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“ Of the NATURALL CONDITION of Mankind ”: Reflections on the Ontology of “The State of Nature” in Chapter XIII of Hobbes's Leviathan

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Charles D. Tarlton
English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 13–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-39.2.13
Published: 01 December 2001
... ight happen. We are, in a word, to consider m en in an ungoverned condition. 5 A close read in g of H o b b es s th irte e n th chapter, O f the NATURALL CONDITION ofMankind, shows us, however, some­ thing very different from this idea of a natural setting for hu­ m an relations. T he state o f n...
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The Archive as Specter

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John-Michael Rivera
English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 1–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-45.1.1
Published: 01 March 2007
... the cultural power of things remembered. Every inch was filled with books and items o f curiosity, both large and small. There were thousands, literally thousands, of things buried in every corner o f the room. From newspaper clippings, to movie posters, to old signs of restaurants, to menus, to books written...
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Learning from Rivers: Toward a Relational View of the Anthropocene

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Allison Nowak Shelton
English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 152–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-7309755
Published: 01 April 2019
... The God of Small Things at the end of this review essay. Rivers have always been a conceptual issue. The early cradles of civilization were all located along large river valleys, and as such rivers have occupied important symbolic positions from the earliest accounts of cultural and literary...
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A Pre-Newtonian Gravitational Trope in Thomas Traherne's Centuries of Meditations

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James J. Balakier
English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 32–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-39.1.32
Published: 01 September 2001
..., or the Imm ortality of the Soul 7that what the mechanists p reten d of the E a rth s gravity, Is n o u g h t b u t a long taken up conceit: A stone that downward to the earth doth hy Is n o t m ore heavie th e n dry straws th a t je t Up to a ring, made of black shining jeat. Each thing doth tend...
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Atlas(t): Cartography of the Human Form through Bibliomancy

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Beau Farris
English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 55–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-11343927
Published: 01 November 2024
...-pressure-icp-headache (accessed August 7 , 2024 ). Jung Carl Gustav , Franz Marie-Louise von , et al . Man and His Symbols . New York : Dell , 1969 . Kopytoff Igor . “ The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process .” In The Social Life of Things...
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Uncertainty

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David Palumbo-Liu
English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 81–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-47.1.81
Published: 01 March 2009
... to tw o key fields poetry w riting and Web-based humanities. In their d if­ ferent media, they enable and incite us to think of ways that making things together is a vital human activity w ith which we seem to have lost touch. Lyn takes us not only back to the p ri­ mal scene o f oral traditions...
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