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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 123–129.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and suspicion. In Mene's World: Ken Saro-Wiwa's Vision of the Mercenary Marketplace M ia C a r t e r O ur p ro p e n sity to action o r in a ctio n o r to a certain kind o f action o r in a ctio n can be p ro fo u n d ly affected by the w ay w e look at the w orld. W ritin g fo r peace s h o u ld at the ve ry...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2003
... In this play, when metaphysical matters are in question, attention is often focused on Krapp s vision on thejetty, an experience which, Kristin M orrison argues, is to do with world view o r life p h i­ losophy or self-knowledge, som ething which could be called spiritual o r religious. 2 A first-night...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 203–207.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of Chiaravalle. Taria’s beliefs, like those of an inner core of devotees, went much further and claimed that Guglielma had been the Holy Spirit incarnate, based in part in visions that some other sectarians experienced and described to Guglielma’s followers. When inquisitors questioned if Taria “wishes to deny...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 217–222.
Published: 01 September 2006
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 68–70.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Donald C. Baker Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture . By C. David Benson . University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2003 . Pp. xix + 283. hc. $45.00 . Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology . Julia...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 140–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the view of the sea as embodying British history entertained elsewhere in Eliot’s poetry of this period, but it continues to envision Britain as inherently caught up in the new vision it elaborates of oceanic history as an ongoing calamitous process that is nevertheless essential to historical thinking...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 April 2018
... vision. Works Cited Altar Robert . Genesis . New York : Norton , 1996 . Beck J. S. Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond . 2nd ed. New York : Guilford , 2011 . Bem D. J. “ Self-Perception: An Alternative Interpretation of Cognitive Dissonance Phenomena...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2019
... without naming that historical touchstone and emblematizes a theory of trace histories that Burney articulates in the novel’s dedication. There, she sketches an agonistic vision of history through what she calls “traces,” where events “though already historical, have left traces” that have been “handed...
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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 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Romero’s vision urges us to see catastrophe where we are accustomed to seeing only the mundane, and collective trauma where we routinely see only individual trauma. In Martin ’s version of horror, the economic decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, is paired with trauma connected to the Vietnam War...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 58–68.
Published: 01 October 2023
... and circulation of these realistic images have also reached a point of visual fatigue. At this juncture of a seeming visual impossibility, the essay proposes creative configurations and visual imaginaries through artistic visioning as a means to continue the work of visual production. It is a typically cold...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 April 2018
... pressing on the eyeballs to attain a vision of hidden lights. 5 Extending his discussion of this particular technique, as well as his more general comments about mystical ascent and ecstasy within the Zohar , I argue that the Heikhalot texts within the Zoharic anthology provide a stunning...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 119–136.
Published: 01 September 2015
... objects. In the introduction to the chapter "Visual Matter," Bynum explained: I wish to turn all of this [scholarly trends toward vlsuality] around and focus not on the topic often recently discussed apropos late m edieval religious art vision o r vlsu ality but on the problem Images presented as m...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 56–68.
Published: 01 March 2001
...), 267. 7Raymond B. W addington, T he D eath of Adam: Vision an d Voice in Books XI and XII o f Paradise Lost," M P 70:1 (August 1972), 9-21. THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT IN BLAKE S THE FLY Scholars have observed th at William Blake s poem T he Fly imitates the p attern o f Thom as Gray s O de...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., "theology," can distort the achievements o f some of the m ost challenging writers he discusses. Specifically, I wish to consider Watson's account o f Piers Plowman in a companion piece to "Censorship and Change": "Visions o f Inclusion: Universal Salvation and VernacularTheology in Pre-Reformation England...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
... forecloses in his writings. This section discusses how diasporic Afro-Oriental soundscapes shape the modernist poetics of both Aslima’s messianic dream vision and McKay’s related poem “A Farewell to Morocco.” I show how these texts foreground an aesthetic fusion of Afraamerican and Afro-Oriental poetics...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 75–81.
Published: 01 September 2009
... so much as to glance at Fanny, demonstrates the a priori nature of his judgm ent, which utterly elides Fanny's specificity. Scott's representation also plays up the Western privileging of vision which, "since the days of Greek philosophy . . . has been hailed as the most excellent o f the senses...
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of the vision. O thers think the angel o f the L ord is the Cross, stem­ m ing from the translation o f engel as nuntius, or the m essen­ ger from the Lord.3 Bruce Mitchell remains uncom m itted to either position.4 W hatever view is correct, general opinion ap­ pears to disfavor em endation, and, as Paul...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and the networks they serve—namely, those that facilitated the expansion and consolidation of Britain’s maritime empire—in order to make the abstract concrete and allow narrators and characters to pass through impasses, physical and metaphysical, and clarify vision. Hanley, on the contrary, considers how...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 43–47.
Published: 01 December 2000
... by dying on the cross. Influenced by readingjakob Böhme and Paracelsus, Blake believed that the fall occurred before m aterial creation and consisted of a loss of the vision o f eter­ nity. He believed th at this loss was caused by the reason and was reversible, in a return to vision, for anyone at any...