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Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoWe are excited to announce our first panel for MLA 2017 in Philadephia and provide the abstracts. Be sure to add this session to your convention schedule!
Chair: Ryan Cordell
Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia and Director, Rare Book School)
Barbara Heritage (University of Virginia), “Literature as Artifact: Critical…[Read more] -
Ryan Cordell started the topic CFPs for MLA17 in Philadelphia in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOur CFPs for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia are now posted. Please consider applying and share widely!
“What Is Critical Bibliography?”
Seeking short position papers exploring the intellectual reach and possibilities for bibliography beyond textual criticism. What is the function of bibliography at the present time? 300 word abstracts by…[Read more] -
Ryan Cordell deposited “‘This Flattering Millennium Theory’: Denominationalism Against Millennialism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Crater” on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Ryan Cordell deposited "Enslaving you, Body and Soul": the Uses of Temperance in Uncle Tom's Cabin and "Anti-Tom" fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years ago
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Nearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner started the topic Shakespeare Forum sessions at MLA16 in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Shakespeare Forum has put together two sessions at this MLA: a Friday morning panel on “Scales of Time and Shakespeare” and a Saturday afternoon roundtable discussion of “Pedagogical Shakespeare: Text, Performance, and Digitization.” More details on both can be found at our new blog, https://shakespeare.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
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Katina Rogers deposited Rethinking the Dissertation: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a position paper for an upcoming workshop convened by the Council of Graduate Schools on rethinking the dissertation. In it, I reflect on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the shift…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Rethinking the Dissertation: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
This is a position paper for an upcoming workshop convened by the Council of Graduate Schools on rethinking the dissertation. In it, I reflect on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the shift…[Read more]
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Mark Sample's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
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Mark Sample started the topic Crowdsource the MLA16 DH List! in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe past few years I’ve been assembling a list of digitally-oriented sessions at the MLA (e.g. 2015’s list). Let’s do something different this year. Let’s crowdsource that list. I’ve started a Google Doc anyone can edit. Please add your DH session to the list!
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Katina Rogers deposited Trauma and the Representation of the Unsayable in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago
This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des qu…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoIn an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]
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