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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoLisa, these are great ideas. As with Cheryl’s, this is going to be impossible to do as a motion, but it’s something that we could propose that the Executive Council consider in the coming year. Some sort of statement about labor equity and protections during the pandemic would seem apropos.
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoCheryl, this is a good idea but one that wouldn’t be able to be done this year giving the timing on motions/resolutions. I wonder if there’s a standing committee of the MLA that might take the lead on such a thing. Still, it’s something I can work to surface.
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Brian Croxall replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoSarah, that’s definitely something I can mention. I certainly remember you addressing this question in past years as the organization moved toward an exclusive relationship with EBSCO.
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Sarah G. Wenzel replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPMLA prices rose this year by a significant amount for Institutional subscribers. It may not rise to the level of the DA and it has been an issue for us in this year of budget cuts.
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Lisa Marie Rhody replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHi Brian,
Thanks so much for raising this issue. I’m deeply sympathetic to the issues relating to graduate study, but given this focus group, I feel like we should raise issues related to labor equity, expectations, and job safety for librarians. I think it would be helpful for MLA to have a statement of solidarity that demonstrates our o…[Read more]
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Cheryl E. Ball replied to the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHey Brian– How about asking the MLA if they would propose a statement of support for open-access research in the humanities? 😉
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Brian Croxall started the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly? in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoColleagues, I’m one of two professional-issue Delegate Assembly members representing the category “Libraries and Archives.” I wanted to open a discussion about whether there are any issues that the Forum members would especially like to see brought to the DA. What concerns are on your (collective) minds?
When I have information about the…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall started the topic Concerns for 2021 Delegate Assembly in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoColleagues, I’m one of two professional-issue Delegate Assembly members representing the category “Libraries and Archives.” I wanted to open a discussion about whether there are any issues that the Forum members would especially like to see brought to the DA. What concerns are on your (collective) minds?
When I have information about the…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Cultural Diversity and the Musical Representation of California in Regional 1970s Television in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn 1970, a television-show dance contest in a small California town ended abruptly when the studio was briefly plunged into darkness because of an apparent power failure. The media coverage of the event eventually helped uncover criminal activity at the studio; over the course of this reporting, the narrative was accompanied by select genres of…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-trau…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPlease take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021 that may be of interest to members of this group. Session 660 in particular is jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics.
205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago Speakers: Danielle…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoFamily and Conflict in Graphic Narratives, Special Issue for Studies in Comics
Call for Articles, Interviews, and Comics
Even though family relationships are at the heart of many graphic narratives, particularly relationships between parents and children (one can think of examples like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman’s Maus), few s…[Read more]
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Hélène Bilis started the topic TC Digital Humanities Executive Forum Elections in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello Fellow TC Digital Humanists,
I’m happy to be nominated for the executive committee for the TC DH Executive Forum and I would be honored to serve. My platform, if I were to articulate one briefly, is to continue to make DH studies in North America more multilingual (specifically, showcasing projects and initiatives beyond English and…[Read more]
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Jacob Heil started the topic Candidate Statement for 2020 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi, friends. Our elections for EC opened last week and I am one of the candidates you’ll see on the ballot for this Group. Therefore, I thought that I might share a little about my interests, my role(s) at the College of Wooster, and my goals for service on the Executive Committee for the Libraries and Research Group.
I have come to libraries by…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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