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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoTraditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Tempestuous Life: Ralegh’s Ocean in Ruins in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoTurning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThough the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.
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Elizabeth Black started the topic CFP deadline extension in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDear all,
If you missed your chance but would like to still submit an abstract for 16th-century French panels in Toronto 2021, please send it to me by Monday March 30th. Send to: eblack@odu.edu
Let me know if you have any questions or need a reminder of topics.
All very best,
Liz
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Elizabeth Black started the topic CFP deadline extension in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDear all,
If you missed your chance but would like to still submit an abstract for 16th-century French panels in Toronto 2021, please send it to me by Monday March 30th. Send to: eblack@odu.edu
Let me know if you have any questions or need a reminder of topics.
All very best,
Liz
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Murat Öğütcü deposited A TALE OF TWO NATIONS: CHAUCER, HENRYSON, SHAKESPEARE, TROILUS AND CRISEYDE in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe matter of Troilus and Criseyde had been dealt in both England and Scotland in similar yet different ways from the late 14th to the early 17th century. In Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (ca. 1385), the conflict between worldly and heavenly love is depicted in a controversial way. Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid (ca. 1480) seems to give a Sco…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Against ‘others’ feet’: Reassessing Nationalism in Sidney and Spenser in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe critical tradition positions Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser among the pioneers of the nationalistic
movement in Early Modern England. From a historical point of view, this has been the result of the promotion of
Britishness by 19th and 20th century literary critics through their construction of national poets in the literary
canon.…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited “Von Freunden und Fraktionen: Die Historiendramen von Shakespeare.” [Of Friends and Factions: Shakespeare‟s History Plays.] in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the Late Elizabethan Period, factionalism complicated the notion of, especially, male friendship. The scarcity of
financial resources of the royal patronage, the arbitrary distribution of favours, and bottom-up pressures of patronees
further problematized a healthy relationship among patrons and patronees and among friends. The horizontal…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Black started the topic March 10 deadline reminder: CFP, Medieval and 16th-c French in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020
Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:
French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Black started the topic March 10 deadline reminder: CFP, Medieval and 16th-c French in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020
Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:
French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Black started the topic Friday deadline – Reminder: 16th-c French CFPs, MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)
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Elizabeth Black started the topic Friday deadline – Reminder: 16th-c French CFPs, MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)
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John Garrison started the topic CFP: Forum Guaranteed Sessions for MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIf you’re thinking of attending the MLA convention next year in Toronto, please consider submitting an abstract for one of these sessions sponsored by the Renaissance and Early Modern Forum:
1. Gendered Vengeance
Exploring depictions of revenge that reinforce or question assumptions about gender, this guaranteed panel welcomes reconsiderations of…[Read more] -
Toby Wikström started the topic 17th-Century French Forum CFPs for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby WikströmBeyond Paris
Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position t…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic 17th-Century French Forum CFPs for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby WikströmBeyond Paris
Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position themselves w…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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