Alexandra Berlina
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic Readings Journal is looking for a new editor-in-chief in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear all,
years ago, I started a double-blind peer-reviewed open-access venue. A lot of great people are on board (see “board members”), and I still love the idea of a litcrit journal actual people would read, but http://www.readingsjournal.net hasn’t (yet) achieved the wide circulation I had hoped for. In the meanwhile, I left the academia in favour of…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello Elana!
Your book is on my reading list. How strange that authors of books intended for reading materialize as people… I’ve been thinking of Wells; it’s not quite ostranenie, methinks, but perhaps DIY ostranenie, available for possible reader construction.
Thank you!
…и вообще много общего у нас: только мой третий язык не иврит, а…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic conference on Shklovsky's ostranenie: cognitive aspects in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago
Contrast and compare: – I got stuck with six Buchstaben in the last round of a Flavita game. Mind you, I was eight and had not studied anatomy, but was doing my poor little best to keep up with two Wunderkinder. You examined and fingered my groove and quickly redistributed the haphazard sequence which made, say, LIKROT or ROTIKL and Ada flooded us…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Jeremy,
thank you so much!
I feel very grateful and slightly guilty to have provoked such a detailed response. I had a look at some of the lists you suggest, and, of course, I have my own favorites (some of which you mention), but I was curious to see what people here in the MLA forum would say…
P.S. Among the books I haven’t read yet,…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic A fantastic play? in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
could you perhaps suggest a play that could be seen as fantastic in Todorov’s sense? (Yes, I know he didn’t want to include anyting but prose, but even Hamlet has its moments — the ghost is too clearly present on stage to be truly “fantastic” in the sense of ambiguous, though…)
Thank you!
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoOh yes, the whole issue of postmodern novels as exercises in literary criticism is very interesting…
Haven’t read Gorra’s “Portrait”, though I love James. Thank you!
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThank you!
…or else, be among the first and help define the style and length of contributions (re the latter, we’ll risk starting at 1000 words)
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Carlos (may I?), thank you!
I’d be delighted about a contribution from you. To my shame, I haven’t read any of your suggestions — and now I will, asap.
Starting the journal was worth it for all recommendations in these forum alone.:)
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIndeed!
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThank you so much!
I’ve actually met Glyn Maxwell and we had a great talk on poetry (and yes, I’m very much into it; the topic of my own first book, Brodsky Translating Brodsky, was poetry in self-translation).
Do have a look at readingsjournal.net, it might suit you. (I’m starting this journal more or less on my own, in my spare time, and am…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThank you!
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoI love Artful!
Such a pleasure to share tastes; I’d be delighted if you submitted to readingsjournal.net
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Steve,
thank you very much! All your suggestions are either books I like, or (incl. the beguilingly entitled work of your own) books that I probably will like. You are very warmly invited to join the journal I’m launching as an author and/or reviewer.:)
Best,
Alexandra
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agonot a litcrit book, alas — still, thank you!
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Alexandra Berlina changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it is we as a species actually do: perhaps w…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it i…[Read more]
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