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James Gifford deposited The Corfiot Landscape and Lawrence Durrell’s Pilgrimage: The Colo-nial Palimpsest in ‘Oil for the Saint; Return to Corfu’ on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Durrell subverts the colonial mindset that allows him to define and delineate a foreign landscape for foreign readers, while nonetheless engaging in an attempt at reconciliation—a pilgrimage—between his various adopted ‘homes.’ Focusing on “Oil for the Saint,” I argue that a close examination of the physical landscape of Corfu shows that Durrel…[Read more]
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Devoney Looser's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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James Gifford's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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James Gifford's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
This chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]
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James Gifford started the topic CFP: Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory (Due: 3 Jul 2018) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory”
Special feature in The New Americanist
In association with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” The Communist Manifesto (1850)
A frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre ficti…[Read more]
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Devoney Looser's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Bonnie Mak's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Shawna Ross deposited This is Just to Say I Have the in your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe final two months of 2017 witnessed a renaissance of an always-popular meme on Metafilter, Twitter: parodies of William Carlos Williams’s 1934 poem, “This Is Just to Say.” Parodies typically replace nouns and adjectives in this twelve-line, three-stanza Imagist poem. A minimum of six replacements yields an entirely new poem, such that users…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited This is Just to Say I Have the in your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe final two months of 2017 witnessed a renaissance of an always-popular meme on Metafilter, Twitter: parodies of William Carlos Williams’s 1934 poem, “This Is Just to Say.” Parodies typically replace nouns and adjectives in this twelve-line, three-stanza Imagist poem. A minimum of six replacements yields an entirely new poem, such that users…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited This is Just to Say I Have the in your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
The final two months of 2017 witnessed a renaissance of an always-popular meme on Metafilter, Twitter: parodies of William Carlos Williams’s 1934 poem, “This Is Just to Say.” Parodies typically replace nouns and adjectives in this twelve-line, three-stanza Imagist poem. A minimum of six replacements yields an entirely new poem, such that users…[Read more]
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James Gifford's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 – Please share! in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWe are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions and the CFP for a collaborative session with the LSL Language and Society Forum. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.
RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 – Please share! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWe are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.
RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
The MLA RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals for MLA 2019 presentations on literacies and literacy practices,…[Read more] -
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