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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori deposited “English Literature: Theories, interpretations, Contexts” (journal) n.5 (Table of contents) in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“English Literature. Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” is a journal started in 2014 and run by an independent board of scholars in English literature, providing room for a critical analysis of issues and themes concerning English literature and literatures in English, also in a comparative view. It is published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Splendid Isolation and Cruel Returns in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoChallenges Robinson Crusoe’s ability, in “Robinson Crusoe,” to be honest with himself about how much he was actually glad Fortune stepped into remove him out of his father’s grasp. And, as well, Gulliver’s presumption, In “Gulliver’s Travels,” that he would really have preferred Fortune had not stepped in and removed him from endless more days in…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Reimagining the Dutch Golden Age (MLA2020, Seattle, WA) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, MLA 2020, JANUARY 9-12, 2020 (SEATTLE, WA)
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of work on the literary culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Renewed attention to major figures such as Vondel, Huygens, and Bredero alongside lesser known writers, both in Dutch and Neo-Latin, continues to uncover the intricate ways in…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCompares Evelina, from Frances Burney’s “Evelina,” and Werther, from Goethe’s “Young Werther.” Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same — namely, to make use of their associations with…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Search for a Way of Being in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a clip of “Blade Runner” as if it were an artifice for suggesting means by which we might find meaning, purpose, in our own world. Decker as extension of ourselves, experimenting, failing… but ultimately succeeding, to discover purpose that is palpable to many of us, in a world we find actively seeking to degrade the possibility of it.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Worlding the Low Countries (London, UK, November 6-8, 2019) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 7 years agoWorlding the Low Countries: 13th international conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS2019)
6–8 November 2019, University College London, UK
Call for Papers
As the truism goes, we are all connected, yet research on the worldliness of the Low Countries is still a rather minor fraction of Dutch Studies. The ALCS2019 c…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow replied to the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoUpdate: we’ve started a googlesheet to sign up. Please feel free to enter your information here, either to volunteer to mentor or to be matched with a mentor:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_zAqjmkOkgqqF7P0u0R35JFSb2ue1qh-F3LHkutGlc/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks!
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the CLCS 18th-C. forum, please reply to this post here or email Allison Bigelow at…[Read more]
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