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Hania Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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Tiffany Potter started the topic CFP: "Approaches to Teaching Eliza Haywood" (Nov 1) for MLA Volume in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCFP: Chapter proposals for the volume on Eliza Haywood in the MLA “Approaches to Teaching” series
Editor, Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia)
Deadline: November 1 2015 (350 word proposal and short biographical note)
email: TeachingElizaHaywood@gmail.com
(for accepted proposals, completed chapters of 3500-4000 words will be due…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoMembers of the Literature and Science Forum:
Hello!
In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrainvagues) by Septemb…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Interesting project. Is there a deadline for submission of essays?
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Thank you for your question. The deadline is October 31, 2015. We hope that you will send an essay. Best wishes! Janet
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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions—and Syllabus Exchange in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello all,
This forum has almost 750 members, so I would like to invite you all to introduce yourselves! And if it is not too painful to think about the fall semester yet, I’d encourage you to use the group as a locus of information exchange and syllabus brainstorming. If you’d like to share your syllabus while retaining copyright, you can…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: July 12,…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: HIV/AIDS: A Contemporary Comparison of Culture, People and Survival in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history. The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging. The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself. There is no cure for it. There is no vaccine. In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFEssays – MLA Volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: Special session proposal for the 2016 Modern Language Association convention in Austin, TX.
“Circulating Notions of TB”
Conference papers invited that examine the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis in imaginative, digital, and other texts.
How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with–or even activ…[Read more]
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Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoIf you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:
Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]
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Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP for MLA '16: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoA call for papers for the 2016 convention now up at mla.org:
Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, Enlightenment (etc.)? What’s its role in the new MLA forum structure? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Dustin D. Stewart (dustin.d.stewart@gmail.com) and Joshua…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetics and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and contemporary…[Read more]
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Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoA new preface for Essential Kafka – in honor of Walter H. Sokel.
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