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Philip Goldstein replied to the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: Form and The Public Intellectual in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Professor Bahr:
Below is a proposal for the forum on the status of the public intellectual. It is titled “Critical Theory: From Ideological Critique to Cultural Practices.” I hope you will consider it acceptable.
Best,
Philip Goldstein
Emeritus Professor of English,
University of Delaware
Unlike Marxist theory, which has declined in…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPsychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Colleagues,
Anthropology and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”
This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; autobiographical insight on personal…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Space to Discuss CORE Deposits in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSome members of this group have sent insightful comments about CORE deposits shared with the TC Literary Criticism forum (see the left hand menu on this page) to the MLA Commons e-mail address. Please use this space to respond or discuss items uploaded to CORE so that everyone—including the author—can benefit from your insight.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Zahi A. Zalloua started the topic CFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP Catastrophe: Special issue of The Comparatist
We welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Brown University (2/29/2016) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Legal History Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown UniversitySaturday April 23rd, 2016
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandDeadline for submission: February 29th, 2016
Acceptance notification: March 7th, 2016The Law and Humanities Graduate Study Group at Brown…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Introduction) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years agoIntroduction to Modernism: Evolution of an Idea, which traces the emergence and coherence of the term “modernism”, and the field of modernist studies, from the late 1800s to the present.
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello Elana!
Your book is on my reading list. How strange that authors of books intended for reading materialize as people… I’ve been thinking of Wells; it’s not quite ostranenie, methinks, but perhaps DIY ostranenie, available for possible reader construction.
Thank you!
…и вообще много общего у нас: только мой третий язык не иврит, а…[Read more]
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Elana Gomel replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Alexandra, I am not sure whether it fits your definition of ostraneniye but the last scene in H. G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” has the violated body literally develop into visibility as the victim is dying. I wrote a book on violence (Bloodscripts, 2003) and though I did not deal with Shklovsky’s theory at any length, I was very intrigued by…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Hester Blum started the topic Prose Fiction Division Panel MLA 2017: The Sense of an Ending, Now in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Prose Fiction Division invites submissions for the following division panel for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
The Sense of an Ending, Now
Forum: GS Prose Fiction
Fifty years after the publication of Frank Kermode’s classic, we invite papers on the form, theme, and theory of endings. Death, epoch, marriage, apocalypse, ellipses. Abstracts by 1…[Read more] -
Amy L. Friedman started the topic Beat Studies at ALA 2016 – CFP in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoUsing Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2017 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2017, post them here or email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the committee members before MLA! Sorry for late notice. (Teaching starts tomorrow here.)
Jonathan
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of the group attending this year’s convention to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place on Thursday night at the JW. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
For more information (and to reserve your spot), visit
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