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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
History and 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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Eric Calderwood started the topic New journal of interest to Global Hispanophone scholars in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear Global Hispanophone colleagues,
I hope that you’re all having a great summer! I’m writing to let you know
about a new journal that might be of interest to the members of this list.The Argentine writer Santiago De Luca is currently serving as Argentina’s
cultural attaché to Morocco. In that role, he has founded a new journa…[Read more] -
Zachary Ludington started the topic CFP: "Hispanic Poetry and World War I" (NeMLA 2019) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m chairing a panel on Hispanic Poetry and World War I at NeMLA 2019 in Washington, DC. The dates are March 21-24. Please take a look at the CFP here [https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html] and pass the information along to any colleagues who might be interested. If my panel isn’t up your alley, consider submitting to…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic Call for Papers, 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 17th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (University of Chicago, April 25-27, 2019).
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (Northwestern UP, 2018) in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoUniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century — with chapters on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoAn analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongratulations, Eric Calderwood, for such groundbreaking contribution to Global Hispanophone Studies!
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book, *Colonial al-Andalus:
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture*
<https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-al-Andalus-Making-Moroccan-Culture/dp/0674980328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522093517&sr=8-1&keywords=colonial+al-andalus>
(Harvard University Press, 2018).Grounded in n…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: Congreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: I Congreso de la Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos 2019 to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoLa Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e ibreoamericanos tiene el honor de enviarles la convocatoria oficial de su Primer Congreso Internacional que tendrá lugar en Agadir, los días 18, 19 y 20 de abril de 2019, sobre el tema: “Las literaturas africanas en lenguas ibéricas (1956-2018)”. Aprovechando esta ocasión, les invita para partic…[Read more]
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP Special Session MLA 2019: Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern Spain
In the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the p…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Session: Expanding Colonial Geographies
This panel aims to re-conceptualize traditional colonial geographies in the Spanish speaking world by considering the transactions between Colonial Latin America and the Global Hispanophone world. How did colonial commercial and knowledge networks between Latin America and the Global Hispanophone…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone
As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]
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