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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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Prof Muhammad Subhan Qureshi deposited Dairy Sience Park connecting Rumi, Iqbal, Tolerance and SDGs in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis paper presented at the Fourth International Conference and Industrial Exhibitoion on Dairy Science Park IV, Nov 1-5, 2017, Konya, Turkey, has reviewed the philosophy of Mevlana Jalal ud Din Rumi regarding love, tolerance, respect and spiritualism; appreciating each others and knowing the value of each other. Rumi (1230) told Iqbal (1930)…[Read more]
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Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling’s The Luminous Dead in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. As a Caribbean poet, Walcott is placed both outside the centre of “majority”, post-imperial civilisation and within the s…[Read more]
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fengjun started the topic Submit your Proposal to The 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics in the discussion
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, tremendous changes have been found in both cognitive science and the study of literature. To explore the potential effects of cognitive science on the study of literature, Cognitive Poetics Association Affiliated to CCLA (Chinese Comparative…[Read more] - Load More
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