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Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoMLA staff member and University of Scranton instructor Dan Connor shares his recent experience teaching with the MLA International Bibliography in this recorded presentation from the November 2020 Charleston Library Conference.
View the recording on Vimeo here: Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography
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Daniel Roger Schwarz replied to the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks Liz; Great topic—best, dan
Dan Schwarz
Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Literatures in English
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
242 Goldwin Smith
Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853
607-273-5735 (Home); 607-255-9313 (Office); 607-255-6661 (Fax)
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Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.
This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoApologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoUniversity of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program:
“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”
Steven J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Click here to registerMore information on the Jewish Studies Program website
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth” March 15: Steven Zipperstein (UPenn Silvers Visiting Scholar) in the discussion
LLC Jewish American via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*UPCOMING EVENT*
*”On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”*
Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021
7:00 PM ESTRegistration Required:
Click here to register
<https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xSTYs3noTD6983U0f3FJgw>More information on the Jewish Studies Program…[Read more]
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”
Steven J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Click here to registerMore information on the Jewish Studies Program website.
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Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoUPCOMING EVENT
“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”
Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Click here to registerMore information on the Jewish Studies Program website.
“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNovel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]
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