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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic WESS/SEES DeGruyter European Librarianship Study Grant in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoPlease consider applying for the WESS/SEES DeGruyter European Librarianship Study Grant, which funds a research project relating to the acquisition, organization, or use of library resources from or relating to Europe, either historical or current.
The DeGruyter Foundation will offer €2500 to the recipient to cover airfare, lodging, and other e…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic Libraries and Research Forum's Open Meeting at 2016 Convention in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoFor the 2016 Convention in Austin, TX, the Libraries and Research Forum has decided to hold an open meeting. The theme: “What Was, Is, and Shall Be an Academic Library – and Who Will Work There?”
The session is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, at 3:30 PM. Bill Thompson (Western Illinois U. Libraries) and Amanda Watson (NYU Libraries) will be…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello!
As managing editor of the Commons, I’d like to invite you, the members of this forum, to introduce yourselves and take a moment to tell us which particular methods of literary research you employ or explore.
Remember that this forum is not just a place to share calls for papers, but also syllabi and teaching ideas, reviews of research sit…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoWith the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several vers…[Read more]
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Jeremy Colangelo deposited The Grotesque Gigantic: Stephen Hero, Maximalism, and Bakhtin in the group
Anglo-Irish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoMy intention is to reorient Stephen Hero’s position in Joyce’s oeuvre, viewing it not simply as a precursor to A Portrait but instead as a first attempt at the kind of expansive narrative Joyce would undertake in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. What I wish to narrate is not primarily the story of Stephen Hero’s failure, but instead the story of how J…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoPlease attend my special session at the 2016 MLA, Austin, TX: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures and consider my new book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, for your classes. Help your students connect with the political system by codifying their own images of the future.
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Michael Hancher started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Austin: Word Books and Material Culture in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWord Books and Material Culture
Sponsored by the new Theory and Method forum Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (formerly known as the Lexicography Discussion Group).
ABCs, dictionaries, spellers, synonymies, thesauruses: what is the life of a word book? What stories do word books tell? Please submit 250 word abstracts by the deadline.…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: Comparing Doris Lessing's Historical & Speculative Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoLooking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Special Session Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoOrganizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at…[Read more]
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Keith Dorwick started the topic CFP: The Chronicles of Narnia at 60, Austin in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
I am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 6…[Read more]
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David Alworth replied to the topic Volunteer in the forum
Prospective Forum: TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoI would be delighted to volunteer.
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Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoAbstracts for MLA2015, session 356: Teaching with the OED
Friday, 9 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 111, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography
Presiding: Lisa Berglund, Buffalo State Coll., State Univ. of New York
Speakers: Kate Levin, Barnard Coll.; Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville; J. Lawrence M…[Read more] -
Kevin Stevens started the topic Joyce Studies Annual 2015 CFP in the forum
Anglo-Irish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoJoyce Studies Annual has issued its annual call for papers. Please note that the deadline is February 15, 2015 for the 2015 volume.
JSA welcomes manuscripts of up to 50 pages on any aspect of James Joyce studies:
• Archival
• Theoretical
• Comparative
• HistoricalFordham University Press uses Chicago Manual of Style format. Please send elec…[Read more]
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories byKeith Oatley (2012). About the psychology and emotions of fiction.
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Sabina Knight replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoI would recommend the following books for your worthwhile list:
Jonathan Culler, _Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 1998 and updated).
Sabina Knight, _Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 2012)
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