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Charles Whitney replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Laura,
Thanks for developing this topic. I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth. In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Rivka Swenson started the topic Deadline: Midnight: Request to Vote in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDelegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).
The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification
You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]
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Rivka Swenson started the topic Deadline: Midnight: Request to Vote in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDelegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).
The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification
You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are c…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThis is a reminder to the members of the Restoration and early 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
If you are attending MLA, please try to…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP-6th conference-Aphra Behn Europe Society in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b><i>Aphra Behn and the Challenges of Genre</i></b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>University of Huelva, Spain</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>12-14 June, 2014</b></p>
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<p align=”center”><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
Aphra Behn was…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the Prose Fiction Division’s panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago next week. The Division is hosting two panels and co-sponsoring a third; details below.
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fic…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic PEHS Calls for Papers in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more] -
Lisa Berglund replied to the topic Division Sessions at the MLA in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<div>
On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago Mar…[Read more] -
Rivka Swenson started the topic Division Sessions at the MLA in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear All, in light of Deidre Lynch’s post on the Commons site in the “Later Eighteenth Century” group, in which she helpfully listed the sessions for that Division and encouraged all MLA-attending members to attend as many of the Division sessions as possible, I’m posting here the information about the sessions for “Restoration and Early…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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Laurence D. Roth posted an update in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
As we approach the upcoming convention, I want to urge all of you who’ll be in Chicago to attend our discussion group’s panel, “Jewish American or Jewish Americas?,” which will run on Sunday, January 12 at 12:00 noon at the Marriott in the Great America room (yes, oddly appropriate isn’t it).
To whet your appetite for our four…[Read more]
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