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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJust a teaser for now, the articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th:
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Pynchon and Wittgenstein: ethics, relativism and philosophical methodology in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis piece presents a tripartite analysis of the relationship between the philosophical works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the novels of Thomas Pynchon. This is broadly structured around three schools of Wittgenstein scholarship identified by Guy Kahane et al. as the Orthodox Tractatus, the New Wittgenstein, and several strands of the Orthodox…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Uncovering the Platonic in Kafka in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoKafka’s Romanticism/Platonism is hidden underneath the covers. In this article I show how better translations can help the reader take the covers off the bed. Whether it be K.’s meeting with Buergel in the Castle or with the Josef K.’s meeting with the Priest in The Trial,
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Hania Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Central Mystery: Conversion Experiences in Selected Works of Flannery O’Connor in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlthough Flannery O’Connor’s fiction has been subjected to criticism of all types and although she is known for her interest in religious matters, no one prior to this has done an in-depth study on the presentation of conversion in her fiction. With William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience as a basis for both definition and struc…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Privileging of Visio over Vox in the Mystical Experiences of Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIn twelfth‐century Germany, where mysticism was a common phenomenon, Hildegard of Bingen and her visions were readily accepted — making it all the more significant that, despite the generally receptive conditions, Hildegard went to such trouble to make sure her visions and her writings were endorsed by the Church. In contrast, Joan of Arc, liv…[Read more]
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Ana Maria Marques Da Costa Pereira Lopes deposited Religious jouissance, bigotry and identificatory mis-recognition in Elmer Gantry's conversion experience in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAbstract:
Assuming that the American self (and culture) was founded upon Puritan values, the aim of this paper is to discuss the importance of identificatory processes in helping to enforce conformity towards prevailing religious mores, as stated above, of a puritanical nature.
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature 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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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFEssays – MLA Volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures (MLA 16 Special Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] -
Jonathan Reeve replied to the topic Religion and Literature Syllabus Archive in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis looks great! It might be of interest to the Open Syllabus Project.
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Liam Corley started the topic Religion and Literature Syllabus Archive in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues and friends,
The journal Religion and Literature and the University of Notre Dame are happy to announce a new resource for the teaching of religion and literature. The religion and literature syllabus archive, housed through the University of Notre Dame, offers access to syllabi from instructors across the many fields that the s…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Religion and Early Literature (MLA in Austin, TX, 7-10 Jan, 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoReligion and Early Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Given the difficulty of distinguishing between literary and religious texts in early periods, how do literary scholars differ in their approaches to early texts from scholars of religious studies? We invite papers on religious literature from the sixth to the seventeenth…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Pedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoPedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Strategies and issues related to teaching sacred texts/selections as literature or literature as religious practice. All religions and periods. Panel sponsored by MLA Forum on Religion and Literature. Abstract/CV by 15 March 2015; Lisa Gordis, lgordis@barnard.edu
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Heavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
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Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing… -
Keith Dorwick started the topic CFP: Chronicles of Narnia at 60, Austin in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoI 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 60th anniversary of the completion o…[Read more]
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Liana Chen replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoI support the formation of this forum
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Li Guo replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoI support the formation of the “Pre-14th-Century Chinese Forum.”
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