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Elizabeth Coggeshall started the topic 2017 Dante Prize and Charles Hall Grandgent Award / June 30 deadline in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
Did any of your students write an outstanding essay on Dante this past year? We invite you to encourage them to submit their essay for the annual <b>Dante Prize</b> or <b>Charles Hall Grandgent Award</b> sponsored by the Dante Society of America.
The Dante Prize ($500) is offered for the best essay submitted by an unde…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Coggeshall started the topic 2017 Durling Prize for excellence in teaching Dante at the secondary level in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Dante Society of America is currently accepting nominations and self-nominations for its second annual Robert M. Durling Prize competition.
The Durling Prize recognizes excellence in the teaching of Dante’s life, time, and works by educators working in North American secondary schools (i.e., high school and middle school). T…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Diversity in Every Course, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Every Classroom in the group
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoRound Table on Diversity and Teaching Medieval Studies sponsored by Graduate Student Council. Session title: “Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges:
Medieval Diversity and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Syllabus Design and Teaching.” This paper is about two courses that illustrate the principle “Diversity in Every Course Title” and several…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited THE COURT, THE NOBILITY AND THE MONARCH S RESPONSIBILITIES IN SHAKESPEARE S ELIZABETHAN HISTORY PLAYS in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAbstract
After 1588, several socio-political and economic problems appeared in the Elizabethan society. These problems were
aggravated by Elizabeth I’s desire to live royally without responsibility. The correlation between good government and the
responsibility of monarchs was emphasised in the literature of the period, as well. Particularly, t…[Read more] -
Pamela Kirkpatrick started the topic CFP for MLA 2018 in New York: Medieval and Renaissance Terms of Endearment. in the discussion
French Medieval Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSeeking proposals to a non-guaranteed session about kinship terminology or terms of endearment used for friends and foes. For example, in The Song of Roland, characters use sarcasm to describe enemies as friends, and interestingly, demeaning monikers are used to chastise friends. What do these epithets say about the cultural boundaries between…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOne of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.
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Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE FOR LEAR SEMINAR APPROACHING in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoDEAR FOLKS,
THE DEADLINE FOR THE NEH SUMMER SEMINAR ON KING LEAR DIRECTED BY RICHARD STRIER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS SUMMER (JULY 10-28) IS MARCH 1. NON-TENURE TRACK AS WELL AS TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTORS ARE WELCOME TO APPLY. STIPEND IS $2700. DETAILS ON THE SEMINAR AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS CAN BE FOUND AT:
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/07/duquesne-university-press-shut-down-later-year
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Steve Dolph started the topic MLA Off-Site Event: Out/Lines in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe expansive contours of the Iberian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, expressed in the imperial motto plus ultra or “further beyond,” can at times obscure the aporias (of ecologies, ethnicities, and epistemologies) at its fringes. Recent scholarship on the material cultures, political economies, and discourses of gender of imperial Spain has…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Edited Volume on Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Submit Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election of a Delegate Assembly representative for this forum is scheduled for the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Jane S. Grogan started the topic International Spenser Society Hugh MacLean memorial lecture at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago<div>
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<div>Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at Amada, 217-219 Chestnut St,…[Read more] -
Toby Wikström started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement (Wikström) in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear MLA members,
I have the honor of being on the ballot for this fall’s election to the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. I would like to thank Hélène Bilis, the outgoing member of the committee, for her service over the past five years.
Raised in Sweden and the United States, I studied French at Carleton College (BA), the Un…[Read more]
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Hall Bjornstad started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe MLA has suggested that candidates for forum executive committees submit a post about their interests and goals to that forum’s Commons group. My name is Hall Bjørnstad and I have been nominated for the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. Originally from Oslo, Norway, I have been at Indiana University, Bloomington since 2009, a…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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