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Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]
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Ted Laros started the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoAll are welcome to join our session on world literature and human rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC:
Session 15 – World Literature and Human Rights
Thursday, 6 January 2022 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM, Marquis 16 (Marriott Marquis)
For related material, visit http://www.oslit.nl/literature-law-and-society/
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Ted Laros, Open U…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Fwd: Announcement of the Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature and Justice (deadline: June 15, 2021) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear all,
Please see below for information about a new prize for scholarship on law and literature by graduate students, professional school students, and recent graduates.
Best wishes,
Melissa GanzBegin forwarded message:
From: “Heinzelman, Susan S” <sheinz@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:sheinz@austin.utexas.edu>>
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.
Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoImagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more] -
Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP: The Art of Unselfing (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Cognitive and Affect Studies and Philosophy and Literature forums invite papers that engage the philosophy, cognition, or emotions of unselfing in literature and/or art for the 2022 MLA meeting. Collaborative, non-guaranteed session. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March to mhulstyn@fsu.edu.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C Approaches to the Material Text in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 5 years agoSyllabus for spring 2021 graduate seminar, “Approaches to the Material Text.” Readings survey in history of the book and related fields. Includes prose introductions synthesizing each week’s readings.
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Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Our Aesthetic Contexts" (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe MLA Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Our Aesthetic Contexts” at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC. We invite papers on how the situational, relational, and mediated contexts in which audiences encounter the arts (including fiction, poetry, theater, film, visual art, music, and dan…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in Palestinian Walks in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACT
In his introduction to Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh remarks that in spite of the great number of travelers to Palestine, travel literature, for the most part, willfully ignored the living experience and existence of the land’s inhabitants. Often, Palestine was the imaginary place that was continuously invented to confirm r…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWith the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.
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Ellen Spolsky deposited An Embodied View of Misunderstanding in Macbeth in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe article discusses the relationship among philosophical and cognitive theories of understanding intentionality, pointing to particular strengths and weaknesses which bear on their usefulness to literary studies. My claim is that their gaps and their complementarity can be seen with particular clarity when they are used to describe interpretive…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference Oct. 17-18, '20 in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoTheme: Coping with Change Guest Speaker & Workshop Facilitator: Laura Apol, Lansing poet laureate Location: on-line, through Zoom (as hosted by Michigan State University writing faculty)
Since our last conference in October 2019, COVID-19 has struck, changing our lives and disproportionately affecting people of color. Then there was the<…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoMilton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]
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