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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 35–52.
Published: 01 September 2014
... nostalgia for a borderless, but irrevocable past of m an-nature sym bio­ sis? Or can it point tow ard the p o ssib ility o f an unassim liable other hovering in the interstices of the world-system , haunting it w ith the revolutionary m em ory of its own abuses? 3 8 E n g lis h Lan g u ag e No tes 52.2 fa...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 214–225.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Penelope Kelsey Abstract This essay brings Zayin Cabot’s concept of “ecologies of participation” into conversation with contemporary Mohawk- and Seneca-language films and language revitalization movements. For Indigenous peoples, these participatory events are often interactive storying of worlds...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 8. Shark carnage in The Silent World . More
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 51–61.
Published: 01 March 2011
... stru ctu re s o f glo b a l m o d e rn ity and a co m p a ra tive aesthetics o f g a u g in g the kaleid oscop ic in te ractio n betw een here and there (space), n o w and th e n (tim e), se lf and o th e r (identity). I. World Literature as System The recent m o dels tha t conceive w o rld litera ture...
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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 (2018) 56 (2): 51–54.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Ralph Bauer Abstract This position paper offers a reflection on Edmundo O’Gorman’s seminal La invención de América as a critique of the New World exceptionalism underwriting much of twentieth-century hemispheric American studies. It suggests that the paradigm of New World exceptionalism emerges...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 205–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... an alternative kind of teaching. Five faculty members from different departments, centers, and programs, w ith two visiting faculty, would collaboratively introduce to graduate students a decentered world, encompassing points of viewing in Europe and Islamic civilization, SubSaharan and Maghrebi Africa, India...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 217–221.
Published: 01 March 2009
... when the literature we read is out of sync w ith what we kno w both in what it says and in how it is made? Historically, poetic words in p rin t have evoked not a world, but a worldview . After Einstein, w hat is "a view "? After Einstein, we know that particle existences pop in and w ink out as we...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 September 2008
... possibility" is present before us "in " the page at hand and, moreover, that far from leaving his readers in the (snow) dust, Watterson invites us to experience that magical world. In order to catch a glim pse of that w orld, we must loosen our grasp of the linear, chrono­ logical narrative thread...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 65–75.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... This is as the line appears as first published in The New English Weekly (18 May 1933). It was revised in Feb. 1936. 6 Dylan Thomas: the Country of the Spirit (Princeton: Princeton UP 1973), p. 131. I COME FROM THE GREAT WORLD : IMPERIALISM AS THEME IN WELLS S THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND Praised by Richard H auer...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 75–79.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Scott R. Stalcup Monsters in English Literature: From the Romantic Age to the First World War . By Paul Goetsch . Frankfurt : Peter Lang , 2002 . Pp. 344. pb. $52.95 . 0-820-45950-X. Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 December 2004 75 B O O K REVIEWS...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
... sway and potential these reports have on a listening audience. Due to Welles's deftly calculated airing o f The War o f Worlds, New Yorkers and New Jersey residents m olded damp towels to their heads to detour the impact o f non-existent alien fog and fled the empire city that was only virtually...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 5. The descent of the divers in Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, The Silent World , 1956. More
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 227–230.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 217–222.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 13–29.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Henry Ivry Abstract Music occupies a central role in the Black radical tradition. It is often understood as a mode of radical rebellion, sonic insurgency, and fugitive possibility. In Black music and sound we can listen to the competing rhythms and tempos of a Black world outside the strictures...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 186–199.
Published: 01 April 2020
...José Antonio Mazzotti Abstract This article presents some results of a long-term research project on the Iskonawa, a Peruvian Amazon community that until recently many specialists considered gone. The few living speakers hold a world of knowledge and oral tradition that a team of Peruvian...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Anthony Cunningham Abstract This essay considers devotional addiction in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day . The novel tells the story of Mr. Stevens, a constant English butler in a rapidly changing world. Having spent his best years in service to Lord Darlington, he must adjust...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
... seafaring literature and broaden our understandings of modernism generally. By way of illustration the essay examines the British author James Hanley’s 1938 novel Hollow Sea , which centers on a merchant ship turned troopship during World War I. In its staging of maritime technologies and infrastructures...