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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[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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Catherine Young deposited 'A Very Good Act for an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville" in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAt the height of their popularity, performing animals appeared in over half of all big-time vaudeville bills and were highly significant to its business model. They were booked to draw children and their mothers to matinee performances and, as consistent sources of novelty, to create crucial word-of-mouth interest in the bill’s weekly line-up. V…[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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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Tarshia Stanley posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoOCTAVIA E. BUTLER: CELEBRATING LETTERS, LIFE, and LEGACY
February 26-28, 2016
Spelman College
Atlanta GA
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by Spelman…[Read more] -
Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Film 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
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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture 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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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP-Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Culture in the Global South in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoKeynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]
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Siendou Konaté started the topic CFP AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC: THE TRUE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE? in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparees (CIEC) / Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS) VOLUME 2 NUMERO 2
LA MUSIQUE POPULAIRE AFRICAINE : LES VÉRITABLES VOIX DU PEUPLE ?
ARGUMENTAIRE
Peut-être pour des raisons d’un élitisme intellectuel ou peut-être du fait de l’absence d’un outil adéquat pour leur analyse, les arts populaires afr…[Read more]
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Verena Kick started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: Grasping at Screens in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP for 2016 MLA in Austin, TX
Grasping at Screens
This panel asks whether the multiplication of screens and the constant traversal of different media demand new ways of thinking about embodied engagement with the moving image. As our bodies move, our various screens may move with us. We may be engaged intensely with a given flow of images, o…[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] -
Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more] -
David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session – The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:
The varying nature of Bukowski’s reception across time and space (his contemporary European reception, for instance,…[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
Popular Culture 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 a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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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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