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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction
Title of session: Religions + Secularisms in the Novel
Submission requirements: 200-wd abstract & brief bio to jhg@ucla.edu
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018
Description: After the demise of the secular thesis, new ways of reading the novel in relation to secularism and religion?
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
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Susan Oliver uploaded the file: CFP: MLA 2019 Transatlantic Romanticisms Reviewed to
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTHE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, CHICAGO, JANUARY 3-6, 2019
SESSION SPONSORED BY THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM (NASSR)
Proposals are invited for the following guaranteed session sponsored by NASSR at the 2019 MLA. NASSR is an MLA-affiliated organisation.
TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISMS REVIEWED
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Susan Oliver uploaded the file: Call for Papers: MLA Convention 2019 NASSR Session Transatlantic Romanticisms Reviewed to
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTHE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, CHICAGO, JANUARY 3-6, 2019
SESSION SPONSORED BY THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM (NASSR)
Proposals are invited for the following guaranteed session sponsored by NASSR at the 2019 MLA. NASSR is an MLA-affiliated organisation.
TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISMS REVIEWED
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.
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Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] -
Allison Margaret Bigelow posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP for MLA 2019, sponsored by the 18th c. Comparative Forum: “Afterlives of the Enlightenment: Sovereignty.”
https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_11095The eighteenth century world placed sovereignty in the heart of global political, economic, and cultural debates. English subjects questioned what sovereignty meant after the Restoration, and agents…[Read more]
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Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.
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Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years agoPreview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.
Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]
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