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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson’s Lyrics in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited En busca de la juventud perdida, reconciliación y desagravio en Carta al padre de Jesús Aguado in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoJesús Aguado’s recent book, Carta al padre (2016), deals openly with both physical and emotional trauma suffered at the hands of toxic masculinity. The poetic voice vindicates his younger self, abused by the father, through the written word that transfers power to the weak and disenfranchised. Lacanian naming and patriarchal structures (family,…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoLibertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
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Marina Tedesco deposited Mercado de trabalho cinematográfico e maternindade: o caso das diretoras de fotografia no Brasil in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoNeste capítulo, articulamos trechos de entrevistas que realizamos com diretoras de fotografia de diferentes idades e regiões do país entre 2017 e 2019 com estudos sobre mulheres e mercado de trabalho para refletirmos sobre um aspecto do machismo na direção de fotografia que tem sido pouco estudado e discutido: a maternidade. É possível ser fotógr…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic ASECS 2022 Panel Proposal Deadline Extended to June 27, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoASECS 2022 Session Proposal Form
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Session Proposals for the 52nd Annual Meeting
Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland
March 31 – April 2, 2022
Must be submitted via this form no later than 27 June…[Read more]
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Rosi Song uploaded the file: CFP – Extended deadline for "En la mesa con Manolo: La gastronomía como acto cultural y político" to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoExtended deadline (July 31, 2021) for proposals (~300 words) for a special number on Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and gastronomy for Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Essays (in Spanish) due December 1, 2021. Proposals and queries to: José Colmeiro, j.colmeiro@auckland.ac.nz and/or H. Rosi Song, rosi.song@durham.ac.uk.
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited La curiositas asiática en Conquista de las Islas Malucas de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoEste ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]
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Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]
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Marina Tedesco deposited Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia: o pioneirismo de Sara Gómez no documentário autobiográfico in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSara Gómez, mulher negra e primeira diretora cubana, é há algumas décadas estudada pelas questões de gênero e de raça presentes em sua
filmografia. Não obstante, existem ainda outros aspectos da carreira da realizadora extremamente importantes e que quase não foram discutidos. No
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited ‘Mate-me por favor’: Como ser uma Final Girl em tempos de medo, de terror, de pesadelo in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoEste artigo pretende explorar como o filme “Mate-me por favor” (Anita Rocha da Silveira, 2015) se apropria e subverte códigos do horror levando em conta preocupações de classe, de gênero e geracionais no Rio de Janeiro atual. Meu interesse se concentra no que o uso do horror busca promover, e como a aproximação a esse gênero pode ser produt…[Read more]
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Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha deposited ‘Kill Me Please’: Being a Final Girl in Times of Fear, Terror, and Nightmare in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article explores how the film “Mate-me por favor/Kill Me Please” (dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira, 2015) appropriates and subverts horror tropes in order to consider class, gender and generational concerns in contemporary Rio de Janeiro. It questions what the use of horror elements seeks to promote, and how this approach to the genre can be…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNovel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season. We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.
For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/
Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOsmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOver the past year, artists, doctors, medical professionals, and international agencies such as the World Health Organisation have been using comics to communicate the risks of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The visual economy and a near-universal language of lines, balloons, and panels in comics makes them well suited to disseminate epidemic-related…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami Univers in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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