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Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Meredith Martin started the topic POETRY PANELS OF INTEREST AT MLA 2020 including GS Poetry & Poetics Panels in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoGuide to Poetry & Poetics at #MLA2020 Seattle, 9 Jan – 12 Jan, 2020
By the GS Poetry and Poetics Forum
In Seattle, make some time to visit Open Books: A Poem Emporiumhttp://www.openpoetrybooks.com/
GS Poetry and Poetics Forum Sponsored Sessions Thursday, 9 January
- Poetics and Lineation
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 607, WSCC
Saturday, 11 J…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Violència i Identitat in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi ha concepte que semblen diàfans, però que poden tornar-se ambigus quan hi reflexionem amb atenció, com el de la violència. Si bé actualment aquest terme envaeix el nostre espai i sovint el llegim de manera unívoca, en el moment en què hi aprofundim hem de reconsiderar-ne el significat. Així mateix, la identitat, que ha estat el tema nuclear…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: special issue-Southeast Asian & Australian Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections
We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCall for PapersBeat Generation and Counterculture PanelsSouthwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference CenterAlbuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.orgProposal submission deadline: October 31, 2019posals for papers and panels are now being accepted for…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Study Guide) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring The Awakening in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Coursepack) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Study Guide) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori started the topic Call for Articles (reopened): Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality” in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoCall for Articles (reopened).
The journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
The new deadline for sending proposals is A…[Read more] - Load More
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