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Michael Bérubé deposited Why Teach Literature? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoContribution to “Why Teach Literature?” Program arranged by the forum TM The Teaching of Literature. Gaurav G. Desai, Tulane U, presiding.
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Suzanne del Gizzo started the topic Hemingway Society Founders' Fellowship: Updated Link in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoUpdated Link–the link in my first post did not work. Here is the post again with a working link. Thanks.
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>The Hemingway Foundation and Society invites applications for two $1000.00 Founders’ fellowships to support scholars working in Hemingway studies. Although the competition is open to all scholars, pre…[Read more] -
Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee Membership and Terms in the discussion
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoExecutive Committee Officers
Alanna Frost MLA 2018 Secretary/MLA 2019 Chair (term Jan 2015- Jan 2020)
Peggy Otto MLA 2019 Secretary/MLA 2020 Chair (term Jan 2016-Jan 2021)
Annette Vee MLA 2020 Secretary/MLA 2021 Chair (term Jan 2017-Jan 2022)
Mya Poe 2021 MLA Secretary / MLA 2022 Chair (term Jan 2018-Jan 2023)
Brice Nordquist, MLA 2022…[Read more] -
Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Business Meeting and Call for Nominations in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We look forward to seeing many of you in Philadelphia this week. The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Annual Business Meeting will be held at 6:30pm Saturday, January 7, following session 651. Sponsoring, Stewarding, and Brokering Literacies (5:15-6:30pm, room 404 Philadelphia Marriott). We do not yet have a location for the meeting,…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoI hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual Foodways W…[Read more] -
Phillip Lundberg started the topic Call for Papers: Knowledge & Ethics – 2018 Special Session in NYC: in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoNYC 2018 – Special Session Call for Papers: ETHICS & KNOWLEDGE
Bringing PLATO, CHRIST and Kafka together (Know Thyself; I AM; I am not (yet)) –
An unusual mix of Philosophy, Religion & Literature that hopes to bring light upon the most important matters:
Freedom & Necessity; Josef K. and Christ the JUDGE being man’s Higher Self as indicated in Ka…[Read more] -
Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/index
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Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/index
Issues 15 and 16 (2016) -
Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
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André Carrington deposited Blackness & Utopia in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPilot for a modular course in-person, hybrid, or online format. Texts and other materials available in digital and streaming formats.
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIndeed, Victor—- though naturally most everyone is so caught up in their own affairs and probably only a handfull of people have even bothered with reading my comments (which by the way is expressed most wonderfully by Buergel in Nocturnal Deliberations…). The level of discourse tends to be either limited to small subsets of “specialists” or…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen you quote Sofel’s acknowledgment of “the horror filled underbelly of all that is detestable regarding which hardly anybody is particularly eager to discuss,” it mirrors the detestable act of electing a man to the US Presidency who has engaged in thoroughly criminal, evil, and loathsome behaviors, including marking a “C” for colored folk to…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoFrom Walter H. Sokel’s Kafka study, Tragik & Ironie:
“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the horror filled un…[Read more]
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEntry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.
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