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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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Aileen A. Feng started the topic MLA 2020 panels sponsored by LLC Med-Ren Italian in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA Seattle for the following panels, sponsored by the LLC Medieval-Renaissance Italian forum exec committee (Aileen A. Feng, chair; Susan Gaylard, secretary; James Coleman; Kristina Olson):
Session 152. Italian Literary Mythologies (1200–1600)
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, 212 (WSCC)
Chair: Aileen A. Feng (U of Ar…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoReview of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.
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David A. Wacks deposited Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoReview of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoBeyond the Individual #763
Sunday, January 12 2020
1:45pm-3pm
Sheraton — Willow BPresiding: Daniel Hack
- Character Networks and Collectivity Scott Selisker, U of Arizona
- Characterization and Combination Andrea Kelly Henderson, U of California, Irvine
- Mohsin Hamid’s Global Direct Address Benjamin Mangrum, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoFriday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow BSpeakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThank you, Donna. I am the other nominee and will take this opportunity to introduce myself, too.I am an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College, where I teach courses on early modern literature and culture as well as courses on gender and sexuality. I was honored to be nominated for the forum, and I’d love to bring the perspective of…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThank you, Donna. I am the other nominee and will take this opportunity to introduce myself, too.
I am an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College, where I teach courses on early modern literature and culture as well as courses on gender and sexuality. I was honored to be nominated for the forum, and I’d love to bring the perspective of…[Read more]
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Domna C. Stanton started the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum I am very pleased to be nominated for election to our Forum Executive Committee. This continues to be an exciting, innovative time for early modern studies, not only because of the global turn in our field but also because we are making major contributions to emerging areas in the Humanities: environmental…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Shakespeare’s Anti-Balcony Scene in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAttenuated Shakespearean references in popular cultural texts communicate meaning only because audiences, storytellers, and lovers all over the world identify the scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet instantly as an emblem of romantic love. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, and Antony and Cleopatra likewise include scenes i…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media: Screen Othellos in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoScreened performances screen out the qualities of ‘liveness’ – immediacy, unpredictability, ephemerality, spatial proximity, danger – to varying degrees according to their media, contexts, and audiences. As Philip Auslander has argued, ‘liveness’ itself is intermedial; in order to characterize a performance as ‘live,’ we contrast it to a ‘mediat…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on “Henry V”: Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago“Focus on ‘Henry V'” is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Shakespeare and the post-millennial cancer novel in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay considers the use that twenty-first-century fictionalized cancer narratives make of Shakespeare’s words, the Shakespeare industry, and editorial and textual apparatuses to trope the ambiguous status of the post-millennial cancer patient. In the so-called “women’s novel” The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, the genre thriller What Time De…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited The Humanities Quadrant: How Humanists, Scientists, and Industrialists Are All Doing The Same Thing (and why we need better assessment tools for all of it) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper applies the concept of sustainability to humanities research and assessment, extending Donald Stokes’s model of “Pasteur’s Quadrant” to suggest a place for humanities- and arts-based scholarship and to identify humanistic practices and methods through which we might “assess” them. It concludes with a reading that deploys the scholarly…[Read more]
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