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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited “Poor Black Squares”: Afterimages of the Floppy Disk in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoChapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited Shadowy Autobiography: Robert Penn Warren and Other Makers of American Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy latest book publication, due from U of Tennessee P in 2020.
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: special issue-Southeast Asian & Australian Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections
We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCall for PapersBeat Generation and Counterculture PanelsSouthwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference CenterAlbuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.orgProposal submission deadline: October 31, 2019posals for papers and panels are now being accepted for…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIntroduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.
The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.
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Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: “What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?” in the group
RCWS Creative Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: “What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?” in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic R.F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies (CFP) 9/30 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe R. F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies is an annual award of $1,000 USD to support research into any aspect of the life and work of Bernard Shaw by a graduate student or early-career scholar. The award, which may be held in conjunction with other awards, is intended to help defray costs associated with visits to libraries and o…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Introduction to Texts & Technology in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for the introductory course in UCF’s Texts & Technology PhD program. Builds on a previous iteration of the course taught by Mel Stanfill.
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] -
Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] - Load More
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