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Howard Horwitz started the topic CFP-MLA Session 2018 in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoReligion in American Public Discourse
Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Do…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic CFP–MLA Session 2018, GS Prose Fiction session in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoFictionality in a Post-Fact World
New theorizations of truth-making in and from fiction. Abstracts: grogers@pitt.edu Abstracts of up to 350 words by 1 March 2017. -
Katherine D. Harris replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you for your response.
My primary concern is the concluding call to action by most of the panelists for the lack of scholarship in the area of newspaper/periodical/publishing transnational movement. Though there may not be many digital archives (to which I wasn’t exclusively referring), there are already many, many scholarly materials on…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you for your response.
My primary concern is the concluding call to action by most of the panelists for the lack of scholarship in the area of newspaper/periodical/publishing transnational movement. Though there may not be many digital archives (to which I wasn’t exclusively referring), there are already many, many scholarly materials on…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you for your response.
My primary concern is the concluding call to action by most of the panelists for the lack of scholarship in the area of newspaper/periodical/publishing transnational movement. Though there may not be many digital archives (to which I wasn’t exclusively referring), there are already many, many scholarly materials on…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited “Structures of Irony: Curiosity and Fetishism in Late Imperial London” in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay argues that curiosity can work as irony’s shadow dialectic in modernist responses to imperialism and metropolitan culture, and suggests that curiosity deserves further exploration as a modernist device. Attentive to the settings and visual metaphors of space and structure that abet irony’s role, this essay finds that curiosity’s…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 372: Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Americas and the British Empire in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years ago372 [HUM] 19th Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas. 3 credit hours. Literary and cultural texts in English from 1800 to 1900 focusing on global British literature and literatures of the Americas.
My investment in the course.
I am concerned about our country’s inability to work against climate change, the mass i…[Read more] -
Pamela K. Gilbert replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThanks for your thoughts on the panel session, “Victorian in a Comparative Field.” Newspaper and Periodicals Studies is of course a very well established area in Victorian Studies. One thinks of the groundbreaking work of Laurel Brake, Eileen Curran, Andrew King, and Graham Law, to name just a very few of the strong scholars who have founded and…[Read more]
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Michael Bérubé deposited Why Teach Literature? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years 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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Katherine D. Harris started the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoNote: I’m going to post this across a few of the groups in which I participate, including Book History and Romantic/19th Century
I just attended the above session organized by this group. While the room was packed and the panel was stacked with a variety of venerable scholars doing interesting work, the panel completely ignored an important area…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of Southern Ca…[Read more]
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