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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI welcome your interest, Janet!
We are adding borderlands to Rust Belt Literature including bordering Windsor, Canada, and bordering Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Our Welcome has been revised to reflect this after someone at a different group pointed out the omission. So we go a bit beyond the Midwest, Janet. we already have interest from Pe…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Friends,
I’m also interested in this group. However, I would like to give the group a more positive or neutral name than “Rust Belt.”
We may also want to connect with the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which has annual conferences in June in East Lansing at Michigan State University. These conferences include films, c…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Sandra Katherine Sprows replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am interested in being a part of the discussion group on “Rust Belt Literature.”
Thank you for starting this discussion.
Sandra
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoNicky Agate told me how to create the group “Rust Belt Literature” so it is now an independent discussion group–I think. I tried to make it as open as possible, since it may be a low traffic group.
Our first offering is my story Whiting Rich and Strange to be found in the CORE file deposit area (on your toolbar–keyword CORE.)
Please send me…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello, 20th-21st C. Am. Lit. Admins,
I spoke to Nicki Agate, one of the admins of the MLA Commons, about a category for “Rust Belt Literature.” There hasn’t been much space for those of us who grew up in steel mill and other industrial communities to discuss our attempts at transforming our life experiences into literature.
MLA CORE DEPOSIT N…[Read more]
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Amanda Starling Gould deposited Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited bringing the war back home (to women) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoattempt to bring the horrors of the indo-china war to the most intimate part of women, 1967, xuan loc, rvn
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Spring 2015 syllabus in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus was my third version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; reading a novel collaboratively with courses at other colleges and…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Spring 2014 syllabus in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus was my second version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around three projects: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; reading a novel collaboratively with courses at other colleges and universities while building a multimedia response; and text…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on 20th and 21st-century American literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3384: Postcolonial Literature in the group
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSelected works from the literatures of former European colonies: African, Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, Latin American, etc. Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoHemingway’s In Our Time has been long recognized as a major development in American literature and Modernism, but limited access to its various publication states has meant that the 1930 edition superseded all others. This edition makes the 1923 version of “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” available for the first time since…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSince its first publication, critics have recognized Hemingway’s 1924 in our time as a major development in American literature and Modernism. This edition makes the 1924 version of in our time available for the first time since the 1977 facsimile edition, which was in a print run limited to 1700 copies. The original edition was printed in only 1…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Revisiting E. E. Cummings' Paintings at Brockport in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe article focuses on the restoration of the collections of paintings and drawings of E. E. Cummings in Brockport, New York. It is inferred that the Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection has sustained a mass of damage over the last 25 years, and that efforts for its conservation have consistently been delayed. It discusses the contents and the…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI shall be delighted to submit a proposal for your conference, Professor Bracher. It is an honor to meet you, as it were, as I am quite taken by your book Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Critique. Victor
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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