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Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoEnglish Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAbstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Real Formalism, Real Historicism in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoIn the next seven minutes, I would like to convince you that real formalism and real historicism really are, or really should be, one and the same critical practice. Our idea of what counts as knowledge about early English literature will be enriched by integrating formalist and historicist methods. Those of us who work on prosody and poetics are…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Quantity in the Alliterative Tradition in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoQuantity matters in the meter of Beowulf and other early English poems. It matters in the form of a metrical principle known as resolution. Metrical resolution served alliterative poets as a way of counting; it can serve modern scholars as evidence for the cultural meanings of verse craft. This paper therefore has two sections: How it Works and…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have your week featured in a special CORE collection for National Poetry Month in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoApril is National Poetry Month and we’ll be celebrating it by featuring a collection of scholarship about poetry, poetics, and poets, as well as original poetry and poetry in translation on the homepage of the Commons. We accept articles, essays, poetry, presentations, visualizations, book chapters, monographs, you name it!
To participate, go to…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic LAST CALL: Arab/ic CFPs for 2018 MLA in NYC — Please apply or share! in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoArab/ic CFPs for 2018 MLA in NYC — Please apply or share!
“Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and aca…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.
Below are the detailed CFPs:
Environmental…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP “Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern Cinema”
What are the aesthetics that Middle Eastern filmmakers have deployed to express dissent and challenge the security of the regimes under which they live? What forms do such films employ to represent the insecurities of resistance? Please send abstracts (max. 250 words) and CVs to R. Shareah…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Medieval States of Insecurity panel”
We invite proposals for a proposed session on Medieval States of Insecurity cosponsored by the Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture LLC and the Arabic Forum at the MLA annual conference in New York (2018). We welcome proposals that explore how insecurity—political and social, real or i…[Read more] -
Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Speculative Futures in Arab/ic Literature”
We invite proposals that explore literary topoi, themes, and imagery of apocalypse, eschatology, science fiction, dystopia, utopia, (non)futurity, or fantasy in Arab/ic literature. We are particularly interested in papers that problematize the genres of magical realist, speculative, fantastical,…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature”
We invite proposals that examine BDS and the ethical engagement with literature, as well as Palestine and World Literature. We welcome critical engagements with Edward Said’s work, and papers that explore other boycott movements, state and academic institutions, as well as MLA and the production, c…[Read more]
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder that this Friday February 17, 2017 is the CFP deadline for “Situating Lyric” (Boston University, June 7-11, 2017): see http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric . Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Culler, Charles Altieri, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Dominique Combe, Eva Zettelmann, Klaus Hempfer, Haun Saussy, Stephen Owen, Robert von…[Read more]
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“Situating Lyric” Conference website (with updated CFP): http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric
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William Waters started the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“SITUATING LYRIC”
First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric
To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)
The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic UPDATE: Call for papers: American documentary poetics in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCFP: American Documentary Poetics
American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos and i…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic American Documentary Poetics CFP in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos a…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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