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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have your week featured in a special CORE collection for National Poetry Month in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoApril is National Poetry Month and we’ll be celebrating it by featuring a collection of scholarship about poetry, poetics, and poets, as well as original poetry and poetry in translation on the homepage of the Commons. We accept articles, essays, poetry, presentations, visualizations, book chapters, monographs, you name it!
To participate, go to…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited “Any differences between our versions and Scott’s…”: Collaboration, Anxiety of Influence, and a Translation of Anne Hébert’s “Le Tombeau des rois” in the group
TC Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAn analysis of the collaboration between Peter Miller and Louis Dudek in the translation of Anne Hébert’s poem, The Tomb of Kings.
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder that this Friday February 17, 2017 is the CFP deadline for “Situating Lyric” (Boston University, June 7-11, 2017): see http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric . Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Culler, Charles Altieri, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Dominique Combe, Eva Zettelmann, Klaus Hempfer, Haun Saussy, Stephen Owen, Robert von…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic CFP–MLA Session 2018, GS Prose Fiction session in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFictionality in a Post-Fact World
New theorizations of truth-making in and from fiction. Abstracts: grogers@pitt.edu Abstracts of up to 350 words by 1 March 2017. -
Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. EXTENDED in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 8th/Febr/2017
ConvenorsVeronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)Short Abstract
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 01/02/2017
ConvenorsVeronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)Short Abstract
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Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“Situating Lyric” Conference website (with updated CFP): http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric
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William Waters started the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“SITUATING LYRIC”
First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric
To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)
The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic UPDATE: Call for papers: American documentary poetics in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years agoCFP: American Documentary Poetics
American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos and i…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 9 years agoI hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual F…[Read more] - Load More
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