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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 13–24.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Sheri L. McCord Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Colorado 2009 H ea lin g by P r o x y : T he Ea r ly M odern W eapo n-Salve S h e r i L. M c C o r d In Totem andTaboo, Freud briefly mentions a "m agical bond between a wound and the weapon which caused it" which he illustrates w...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 69–85.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of control, arguing that its military occupation and settler-colonial project in Kashmir operates not only through the logics of spatial control but also through a control over time. The state has not only tried to erase people out of their own futures but also weaponized the idea of future itself—as a site...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 37–48.
Published: 01 October 2022
... women, but also how a domestic purchase (like lipstick) became a weapon of war. The second and purposely camouflaged result of Panter-Downes’s descriptions of wartime capitalism was to market the war to New Yorker readers to garner American sympathy for, and support of, Britain’s ongoing struggle...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 21–36.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Sam . The Evolving Maritime Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific: Maritime Doctrines and Nuclear Weapons at Sea . Singapore : Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies , 2006 . Reich Robert . “ Robert Reich on Trans-Pacific Partnership as ‘NAFTA on Steroids.’ ” YouTube video, posted...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2014
... in her fam ily w ith nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Southwest. Whereas Refuge is structured around an apocalyptic revelation whereby W illiam s on ly realizes at the end that H S U AN L. H S U 51 h e rfa m ily's struggles w ith cancer result from a living in an irradiated place, Kiana Davenport's...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 259–265.
Published: 01 September 2006
... repeatedly im plied tha t Saddam Hussein was in some w ay associated w ith the events o f September 11, 2001, although there was little evidence to support that claim. Of course, the more central claim in the Bush adm inistration's case fo r w ar was that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., a princely vessel; they led the beloved lord there, giver of rings, into the boat s bosom, the famous one by the mast. Many were the treasures there, adornments brought from distant shores. I ve never heard of a more comely ship containing battle weapons and arm or of war, swords and byrnies. In its bosom...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2009
... essays in this cluster. Sheri L. McCord's analysis of a purported early modern cure for wounds, a "weapon-salve" that anoints not the wound itself but rather the weapon that caused it, pursues this peculiar remedy's history and its literary avatars from Paracelsus through the late seventeenth century. W...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 April 2023
... not come easy. Insurrection sounds so antiquated, so out of the realm of possibility! Yet in front of our eyes, individuals wielding weapons and dressed in tactical gear, homemade costumes, and “Make America Great Again” T-shirts overwhelmed police barriers and threatened lawmakers who were voting...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 163–166.
Published: 01 March 2017
... ultiethnic environmental literature, ecow om anist/ecofem inist theories, creative activism , and other related areas of inquiries. She is the author of "Turning Weapons into Flowers: Ecospiritual Poetics and Politics of Bön and Ecowomanism" (2016), and other publications about transcultural understanding...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 39–57.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., symbols of Kashmiri resistance draw heavily on objects or pieces of clothing, such as the pheran and kãgerè , that make life possible for Kashmiris in the thick of winter. 40 Building on a rich history of how kãgerè has served as a Kashmiri weapon against an occupying military outfitted...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 123–127.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of our own preoccupations: such "cooptation m ust always be a process intolerable to critical consciousness, whose first obligation is to resist incorporation, and whose weapon is analysis."4 Historical difference is the ally o f understanding, and taking its meas ure is necessary if we are to learn...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 41–47.
Published: 01 March 2010
... ighlights that risk. The tone m odulates between derision o f those w h o do not have the sense to m aintain a proper m easure o f selfinterest, and slight em pathy fo r the ir plight. We see the vu ln e ra b ility o f those w h o lend out th e ir ow n horses or weapons, fo r exam ple: "He that lendeth...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 145–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
...,’” 7 as Thomas Shepard called it in the 1600s, a weapon of spiritual conquest. However, Kristina Bross has remarked, “Once forged, the ‘sword’ could be wielded by the people who were supposed to be pierced by it. . . . [Indians] made creative use of the Bible and perhaps not always...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
... p o rt" as "rum or, [or] com m on talk" and only later presents the less com m on usage of the term that refers to the "resounding noise, esp. that caused by" weapon technology. M y consideration o f the form al aspects of the emergency radio report draws from a double-entendre signified by the term...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 191–209.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... In Greenblatt's examination of Caliban's cursing and in M ary Steible's and AllisonThorne's accounts of Queen Margaret's maledictions, for example, characters curse as a result o f their oppres sion, at a loss for other weapons of revolt.4W ith respect to its articulation and efficacy, David Bevington form...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., the committee was unimpressed: Mr. Kelly faced sharp skepticism from Republican and Democratic members, who suggested that sanctions were necessary to demonstrate Washington’s displeasure with Iraq’s use of poison gas and torture against its citizens and with its threats to attack Israel with chemical weapons...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 121–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the creation of a plan for world peace th a t recognized the slow violence and a ttrition al le th ality of nuclear weapons and other weapons of war.19 While w riting admirably about Leopold, Nixon seems unaware of w hat Deloria calls a "p ow erful tradition of environm ental and ecological th o u g h t" im...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 65–75.
Published: 01 September 2004
... violence becomes the next predictable step in his plan for total subjugation of the valley people. Reversing the Biblical admonition of Isaiah about transforming deadly weapons into farming tools, Nunez picks up a spade and plans to strike one or two of them to earth, and so in fair combat showing...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 175–179.
Published: 01 September 2006
... same behind rations, w ages, and freedom -speak. Confiscated (as one m ig h t have confiscated caches o f Confederate weapons, say), contrabands, both fugitives and im pressed Confederate labor ers, w ere set dow n into these cam ps in the rhetorical hope th a t a system atic m anagem ent 178 E n g l...
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