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Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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Andrea Kaston Tange replied to the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIt is great to know you are running, Pamela! Thank you.
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Rachel Arteaga deposited Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThese lesson plans and corresponding handouts introduce students to methods in digital humanities (distant reading, narrative mapping, and sentiment analysis). They are aligned with the K-12 Common Core State Standards and informed by university-level DH discourses. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, these materials are…[Read more]
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Alexandra Saum-Pascual started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Bios in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlex Saum-Pascual
Biography: I am Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California Berkeley where my work has focused on the intersection between literature and digital technologies, specifically as these are expressed in electronic literature. I am both part of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Executive Committee…[Read more]
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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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Pamela K. Gilbert started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am not quite sure what the protocol is for these statements now that we are on a blog format, but here goes. I am Pamela K. Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida, and I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the division, representing our interests to the MLA. You can all google if you are interested in s…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoMembers of the Literature and Science Forum:
Hello!
In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrainvagues) by Septemb…[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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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English 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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic 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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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions—and Syllabus Exchange in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello all,
This forum has almost 750 members, so I would like to invite you all to introduce yourselves! And if it is not too painful to think about the fall semester yet, I’d encourage you to use the group as a locus of information exchange and syllabus brainstorming. If you’d like to share your syllabus while retaining copyright, you can…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: HIV/AIDS: A Contemporary Comparison of Culture, People and Survival in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history. The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging. The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself. There is no cure for it. There is no vaccine. In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[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, 11 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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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even activ…[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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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetics and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and contemporary…[Read more]
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