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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 147–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Laura Winkiel Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado 2011 T he Utopian A spect of T r a nsna tio nal C o m parison L a u r a W in k ie l My in te re s t in g a th e rin g a ro u n d ta b le on "C o m p a ra tiv e M o d e rn is m s '' at th e M o d e rn ist S tudie s A sso...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Rebecca Totaro Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Colorado 2009 C h ic k e n S o u p (a n d O r a n g e J u ic e ) for the P l a g u e -T ime S o u l ?: F r a n c i s B a c o n s Utopian P rescriptio n Rebecca totaro Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis (1627) is a com plex w ork...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a generative tension between the imperial national forms the author encountered in North Africa and the Black nationalist vision of Marcus Garvey’s Back-to-Africa campaign. Reading the dialectics of bad nationalisms and Black internationalisms, the article explores how the utopian promise for Black liberation...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., forgoing the antiracist potentialities of primitivism for the utopian possibilities of international Marxism, interracial collaboration and queer love. Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 primitivism Claude McKay Harlem Renaissance strategic primitivism...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 211–222.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: This is not a Religious age.1 o adm it and study the utopian program or its near-realization inThom as Carlyle's TPast and Present, section II, "The Ancient Monk," is not to claim that Carlyle was a utopianist or that he was especially attracted to the idea of utopia. Judging only by the way he undermines ideals...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Flythlodaeus to the island. A sailor stands on the deck and appears to be gazing off at the Utopian landscape; one could argue that this figure represents the position of More's own readers, w ho vicariously take part in a travel narrative, exploring the spaces o f this strange country.1 It Is a peculiarly...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 170–179.
Published: 01 December 2005
... As we will see, A uden s cities for the most part exemplify utopian attempts to build a City of God on earth. The results of such attempts, as history reminds us, are often dystopian.14 This idea, of course, had first appeared in A uden s poetry ten years before Memorial for the City. In his sonnet...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 209–218.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... But since such a possibility is not determined by the real, there is the risk that it w ill take on the character of the utopian. Bohrer recognizes this but, in order to retain and produce meaningfulness fo r his claims on behalf of the aesthetic, he is constrained to for mulate the utopian element...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2009
... hile much derided among early modern physicians and divines, the fantastical weapon-salve cure finds a happy home in, among other literary works in McCord's analysis, the utopian play The Enchanted Island, John Dryden's rew rit ing of W illiam Shakespeare's The Tempest. Similarly, Rebecca Totaro's...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the sexes: women conniving to get money from men, and men desiring sexual gratification but also freedom from the constrictive (often financial) bonds of the couple. As the central relationship fails, McKay keeps a hold on the utopian possibility of romance as the journey toward egalitarian relation...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... communities that project their utopian ideals onto the new (is)lands. In combining scientific facts pertaining to nature with both fiction and utopia, the story adopts key characteristics of science fiction. “Utopia has always been a political issue,” posits Fredric Jameson in Archaeologies of the Future...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 49–62.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in the transient encounters o f the bathhouse or sex club is to occlude w hat else may go on in such spaces.This is, perhaps, a point about how we theorize the ephemeral and repetitious because sites o f gay sociality are largely rooted in the urban economy, any utopianism expressed therein is a priori avail able...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 182–183.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and utopia, is the most comprehensive of these three approaches to the migrant’s story. 1 Anam places recent British and French novels envisioning Muslim immigrants in relation to European colonialism, describing the latter as its own form of utopian migration. As she demonstrates in her readings...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
... obviously shut out of the process that resulted in their design. In Modernism as Memory I argue that the most effective of Berlin’s countermonuments, the Jewish Museum and the Topography of Terror, pair shards of an actual past with new construction that represented both the utopian ambitions...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 51–62.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., the utopian possibilities formerly associated with higher education have become too dangerous for the apostles of authoritarianism. Increasingly, public schools are subject to the toxic forces of privatization and mindless standardized curricula while teachers are deskilled and subject to intolerable labor...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 184–186.
Published: 01 October 2020
... examples of Anglophone and French fiction that, in figuring migration as an apocalyptic event that threatens to destroy European civilization, epitomize Europe’s transition from an outward-looking “colonial utopianism,” with its attendant myth of mission civilisatrice , to current nationalisms that cast...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 April 2022
... continuous and future imperfect,” the symposium contributors on balance treat the current dystopian syndemic as a potentially galvanizing opportunity to “‘emerge on the other side’” into a closer-to-utopian future informed by a “politics of hope.” 8 Such narratives of progress, however, leave a lot...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on the utopian presupposition that com petitive free market capitalism is self-regulating and w ill achieve equilibrium if left to Its own devices. After the financial crisis o f the fall of 2008, however, it is unclear how or 17 0 E ng lish l a n g u a g e N otes 4 8 .2 Fall / W inter 2 0 1 0 w hy any field...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 79–85.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Press, 1993). 4 John Lewis Gaddis, The C old War: A N ew H istory (New York: Penguin, 2006). s Ibid., 32. 6 Donald E. Pease, The N ew A m erican Exceptionalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009). 7 Gaddis, Cold War, 147. 8 In The Utopian Function o f A rt and Literature, Ernst Bloch...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 68–70.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... By happy chance I was sent these books in one package for review. The vision poem was a common vehicle in the Middle Ages for Utopian political and religious commentary, scientific speculation, amorous passion, and personal revenge, either alle gorical or literal, most notably by Dante. The classical...
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