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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 ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
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; [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 ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
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 Yo…[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 ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
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 Yo…[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 ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
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 Yo…[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 ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
<div id=”conv_program_details”>Presiding:<i> </i>Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park
1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present T…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago“How do I start a short story”? Edit
What method work best for you to start a short story? I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s “vomit in the morning, clean up in the afternoon” method. (Author of _Fahrenheit 451_, _The Martian Chronicles_, _The Illustrated Man_, etc.) Just allow your unconscious t…[Read more]
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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
Issues 15 and 16 (2016) -
Peter Leman started the topic CFP UPDATE: "Law and Literature from the Global South"–DEADLINE EXTENDED in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED (January 15, 2017)
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): DE…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2018 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2018, email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the other committee members before MLA. I will collate all suggestions and bring them forward to the committee at our meeting.
All best,
Jonathan
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Speculative Modernism in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAn article relating modernism to financial speculation.
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[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] -
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Carl Gelderloos deposited "Ersticken im Stofflichen": Characters as Collectives in Alfred Döblin's Wallenstein and his Theoretical Writings in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn foregrounding the epochal figures of Albrecht von Wallenstein and the Emperor Ferdinand, Alfred Döblin’s historical novel Wallenstein (1920) would seem to confound the genre’s habitual focus on average, typical figures. The catastrophic power struggle that results from the irreconcilability of the protagonists of Wallenstein is a far cry from…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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