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Jody Enders started the topic Joint CFP from Law as Literature Discussion/Drama Forum in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Drama Division is equally pleased to post this call for papers for a proposed cosponsored Panel with our colleagues in the Law as Literature Discussion Group. A more complete version, authored by Alex Feldmann, follows the short description below. We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you in Austin.
(up)Staging…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP: Evolution, Ethics & Tragedy (Kent State Humanities Conference, July 2015) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and TragedyConference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanitiesContact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.eduI am…[Read more]
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Jody Enders started the topic Divisional Call for Papers, Austin 2016 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
The Division (soon to be “Forum”) on Drama and Performance is pleased post below a lengthier description of our plans for Austin, 2016.
On behalf of Brian Herrera, Eng-Beng Lim, Nadia Ellis, and Shane Vogel, we are very much looking forward to your queries and proposals,
Jody Enders, Chair (2016)
What are the lim…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere (Corrected) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that eng…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP – MLA 2016: Literature and the Public Sphere in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago“Literature and the Public Sphere: Connecting Classroom and Community”
The focus of this session (sponsored by the Forum on the Teaching of Literature) is on the interconnections, both actual and possible, between what we teach in the literature classroom and the world beyond that classroom. This can mean looking at literature that engages pub…[Read more]
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Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoIf you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:
Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]
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Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP for MLA '16: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoA call for papers for the 2016 convention now up at mla.org:
Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, Enlightenment (etc.)? What’s its role in the new MLA forum structure? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Dustin D. Stewart (dustin.d.stewart@gmail.com) and Joshua…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoIn mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP for MLA16: Bernard Shaw and New Media, 1879-2015 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years agoIn mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]
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Saul Zaritt started the topic Call for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies in the forum
Yiddish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies
We are proud to announce In geveb, a new online journal of Yiddish Studies. In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the presentation of digitized archival documents, the exchange of…[Read more] -
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Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoA new preface for Essential Kafka – in honor of Walter H. Sokel.
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoOh yes, the whole issue of postmodern novels as exercises in literary criticism is very interesting…
Haven’t read Gorra’s “Portrait”, though I love James. Thank you!
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Esther Leysorek Goodman replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHas anyone mentioned Michael Gorra’s “Portrait of a Novel” (about Portrait of a Lady)? Many of David Lodge’s academic novels introduce (and explain) literary history and theory, actually using theory as a plot element– “Small World” and “Nice Work,” for example.
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThank you!
…or else, be among the first and help define the style and length of contributions (re the latter, we’ll risk starting at 1000 words)
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Carlos Abreu Mendoza replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Alexandra (and of course you can use my first name 🙂
I’ve read the Latin American authors in Spanish a while ago but judging by the quality of the publishing houses they should be good translations. I found a couple of Bolaño’s essays in The New York Review of Books if you are…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Carlos (may I?), thank you!
I’d be delighted about a contribution from you. To my shame, I haven’t read any of your suggestions — and now I will, asap.
Starting the journal was worth it for all recommendations in these forum alone.:)
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIndeed!
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