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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
... done before. In the end, how clearly he sees himself and his vocation remains an open question, but careful consideration of his story can illuminate vital details about dedication— addiction in the sense of steadfast devotion. Specifically, the novel explores how Mr. Stevens is embodied by his...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 September 2003
... as a symptom of September 2003 41 the hubris of those who would loke to rule like a lord [rather] then to lyve lyke an underlynge. For Wilson, reason must enlist rhetoric to prove that it behoveth everye man to live in his owne vocation, and not to seke anye hygher rowme [for otherwise] who would digge...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 2006
... pleases."11 In the postlapsarian world, the defect becomes a sign of vocation (if not election), and weak ness paradoxically represents to the Christian a sign o f inspiration and strength. Just as the invocation's "Siloa's brook" alludes indirectly to the man Jesus cured of blindness at 6 0 E n g l is h...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 26–39.
Published: 01 September 2004
... harvest flood, the m ock-hero ic garden, the rail s death, the playful changes o f scale (as in grasshopper m en and stellar fleas), the themes of retirem ent and vocation: these and other features conjugate the georgic paradigm.4 The poem is mainly georgic both in its setting and its range of top ics...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 59–70.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., Christianity had turned out to be an oppressive force for him, isolating and fear-inducing. But he was not going to give up completely, and, to avoid the "Everlasting No," he decided on a vocation that w ould still allow him to speak in the affirm ative, though not in the accents o f doctrinal faith. He...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 96–107.
Published: 01 December 2000
... f the absent Father (whose void is filled by the Law, prohibition) and the im poverishm ent o f desire. The final chapter, D epression and Vocation in the 1805 Prelude. The Homeless Voice o f W aters, revives the poetic cor pus of W ordsworth. Contrary to those critics who find in W ordsworth s...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 86–98.
Published: 01 October 2019
...,” 265. 14 Weber, “Science as a Vocation,” 155 . 15 Garuba, “Explorations,” 284 . 16 Stoller, Embodying , 37, 12 . 17 Taussig, Mimesis , 71 . 18 Taussig, Shamanism , 135 . 19 Imma, “Rewriting,” 130 . 20 Mowitt , “Trauma Envy.” 21 Shepler...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 11–24.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., to be able to rest in o r occupy) their habitations, Adam becom es the first ecologist. Correspondingly, Eve s re sponse to this vocation and the creatures response to her m odel for us the purpose o f h um an dom inion in this p e n d a n t w orld.21 T hough environm entalist Lynn W hite reads Genesis...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 September 2004
... as a feather maker of Blackfriars a trade and a district popularly associated with puritans13 Robin Goodfellow tries to gain admittance to court festivities, complaining that the porters made as light of mee, as of my feathers; and w onder d how I could be a Puntane, being of so vaine a vocation. W hen...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2003
... English Language Notes vocation o f w riting . . . Similarly, Krapp undertakes the task o f translating his vision into a work of literature in a spirit of determ ined self-sacrifice: the taped m em ory o f his excitem ent over th at m em orable n ig h t in M arch . . . will, he thinks, sustain him...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 March 2006
... poetry to his son that the poet was expected to memorize and recite back.9 This seem ingly uncomplicated mom ent of instruction, then, connects to the poet's chosen profession, a vocation whose roots spring from the love of language expressed by the man whose story and presence receive considerable...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 43–56.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... After having ad vocated and dramatized social and religious virtues through out, The Excursion ends with the Pastor s evening prayer to God to instill His love and kindness in man and to take away / The sting of human nature. In a radical conservative bias in the Vernal Ode, Wordsworth thinks...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... By Cendrars’s logic, the avant-garde’s poetic vocation was structured by financial speculations of roving state-private infrastructure projects in an era when they began to replace formal empire and attentive colonial administrations with neglectful leases, the wobbly legal regimes of “assigned sovereignty...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 26–38.
Published: 01 March 2003
... by ten d er salutations (258.30-32). The lines following this seemingly naïve observation indicate that perhaps Yorick is n o t wholly unconscious of their vocation: I could have wish d to have m ade them h ap p y their happiness was destin d, that night, to com e from an o th er quarter (258.3234...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 11–24.
Published: 01 December 2000
... a n t to his vocation.43 More significant, however, in terms of the play as a whole, is H olofernes s poorjudgem ent. The King of Navarre and his lords, like the schoolmaster, only see and hear what they want to see and hear. They woo the Princess and her ladies confident in their own attractions...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 50–63.
Published: 01 June 2004
... fascinated with nonsense for the sake o f nonsense, and the acoustical powers o f the French language are less fre quently called u p o n as vehicles for m ental travel. A nd as David Bromwich has argued, Stevens s later work also exhibits a change in attitude in the vocation of the poet: whereas the early...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 March 2009
... inside of the trans-Atlantic, if not inside of Englishness itself. Although it is not explicitly expressed as such, Vassa's newly settled fit in the Brit-lit canon is arbitrated through propri etary rites, credentialed through the nationalizing properties of apprenticed vocation, m ar riage...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The devotional form of addiction to one’s vocation, exercised by Ishiguro’s protagonist Mr. Stevens, toggles between admirable and necessary service, or misguided and enabling myopia. In all cases Stevens remains inhibited in his ability to act freely. In analyzing the structural constraints so deftly drawn...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in the Golden Age of Spain (1500–1650) (2017). 23 At the end of the Life Teresa tacks on four more chapters (37–40) recounting mystical gifts, perhaps at the command of her censors. 24 On Catherine’s apostolic vocation, see Scott, “St. Catherine of Siena” ; and McGinn, “Catherine of Siena...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 61–73.
Published: 01 September 2014
... erica.5 Brückner's study relates and brilliantly interprets the explosion of geodetic w riting ("surveying was the [second] most popular subject of vocational training" of the cen tury) and "the advent of a culture that was preoccupied w ith the conditions and mechanics of geodetic w ritin g...
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