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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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Melanie Jones started the topic CFP: Mad Scholars Anthology in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoRecently, there has been an avalanche of news articles about spikes in mental illness on campus. Seminal works like Margaret Price’s Mad at School (2011) have begun to expose the ableism inherent in the university and prompted more open discussion surrounding the politics of disclosure.
As interest in this crucial topic grows, we are seeking o…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]
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Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more] -
Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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Marisa Parham deposited ‘Freedom, Equality, and Race’: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay begins with my attempt to close-read a text by a recently departed colleague, Jeffrey B. Ferguson, but turns into an exploration of writing across registers, in this case the delivery of a very different version of the same paper by Ferguson, one that is far more intimate, insightful, and moving.
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Marisa Parham deposited Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoTwo-thirds of the way through Faulkner, Mississippi, his extended meditation on the prose oeuvre of the American writer William Faulkner, Édouard Glissant remarks on Faulkner’s famous ‘amused refusal to “correct the contradictions”’ introduced into his texts through his constant revisiting of characters across novels not necessarily set in proper…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Unfurling Unflattening (edited collection) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Chapters—Edited Volume
Unfurling Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical Possibilities
Janine Utell, Widener University, Amanda O. Latz, Ball State University, Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY at New Paltz, Editors
The publication of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015) created an unprecedented stir among schol…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Piers Anthony in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoNew group for studies of Piers Anthony. Exemplar of Winnicottian play in a field of often dark, dour and free movement suppressing (the ogres are going to eat you, not engage in actually-quite-interesting-once-you-get-used-to-them conversations with you). Liberal, Paul Krugman-admiring, vegan, Jimmy Carter-admiring, unappreciated giant of…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Gene Wolfe in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoNew group for studies of Gene Wolfe. Avant-garde. Phenomenological. Psychological/social interactionist. Let’s bring him into the MLA. https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/gene-wolfe/forum/
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Kay Sohini deposited On the Crisis of Creation: A Short Comic in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoOn the Crisis of Creation is a short comic about the comic artists’ equivalent of a writer’s block.
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Kimberly K. Dougherty deposited “A Death Like the Rebel Angels”: Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers’ Pay in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay explores the challenge to the chivalric myth of the aviator in Willa Cather’s One of Ours and William Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay. Revived during the First World War, this romantic myth cloaked the aviator in idealism and hid the actual body of the flyer in rhetoric. In this war of increasing mechanization, the air war was the last basti…[Read more]
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