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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Allison Margaret Bigelow replied to the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoUpdate: we’ve started a googlesheet to sign up. Please feel free to enter your information here, either to volunteer to mentor or to be matched with a mentor:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_zAqjmkOkgqqF7P0u0R35JFSb2ue1qh-F3LHkutGlc/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks!
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the CLCS 18th-C. forum, please reply to this post here or email Allison Bigelow at…[Read more]
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Laura L. Runge started the topic Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Sunday January 6, 2019: 10:15-11:30 AM, Randolph 2 (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida
“Before We Were Normal: Disability and Aesthetics in the Early Eighteenth C…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 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,…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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