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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of 21st century american poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis paper will begin by looking at the historical theoretical relationship between science fiction and dystopia. It will then proceed to demonstrate how recent theorists have failed to adequately incorporate the practical changes authors have introduced to the genre, which includes the incorporation of aspects of magical realism. Brown Girl in…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute (Jun 19-25) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 – SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2017.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Noreen O'Connor started the topic CFP: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield (due March 15) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference: 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Conference web site: EvAandKM2017.org
Keynote Speakers: Professor Emerita Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University) and Professor Christine Froula…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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Lucinda Newns started the topic Deadline Tomorrow: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention on Globalisation in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London
18–20 September 2017Special Topic: Globalisation
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Aamir Mufti (University of California, LA), Prof. Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford), Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)
A reminder that the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Murphy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES The Handmaid’s Tale in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease follow this link to access all three, or see below.
<b>SITE SPECIFICS</b>
How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more] -
John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more] - Load More
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