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Subramanian Shankar started the topic CFP–Caste and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGuest Editors: Dr. S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA, and Dr. Charu Gupta, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.
Submit: 400-word abstracts to S. Shankar (subraman@hawaii.edu) and Charu Gupta (charu7@hotmail.com) by September 15, 2015
Life Narratives (biographies, autobiographies, Fa…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Michael Lackey started the topic CFP for book about Styron's Nat Turner Novel in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoRevisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner:
Fifty Years Later
Editor: Michael Lackey
The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in publishing a collection of essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was published in 1967. So that the boo…[Read more] -
Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: American Comic Books and the AIDS Crisis in the group
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPrepared in partial completion for the Master’s degree in American Studies at UMass Boston. Abstract: Between 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…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Patricia Oman started the topic CFP: "The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early 20th c. Midwestern Regionalism" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoHastings College Press welcomes proposals for chapters for an edited volume focused on Midwestern regionalism during the first half of the twentieth century. The volume is tentatively entitled “The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early-Twentieth Century Midwestern Regionalism.” Midwestern regionalism includes writers, artists, publishers, int…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Ratan Bhattacharjee replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Ms Miriam Gogol Greetings . I feel honoured to have got your invitation To write an article for your forthcoming book. I would love to contribute one article on Dreiser. As a member of the International Advisory Board of International Theodore Dreiser Society I would really enjoy the writing. Regards Ratan Bhattacharjee
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