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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society A…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting, NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissanc in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at th…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe June 1888 issue of the Phonographic World magazine presented John Pynchon, an ancestor of Thomas, as “The First American Shorthand Reporter”. While most biographical criticism to date of Thomas Pynchon has focused on the cameo appearance of a thinly veiled William Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, we here set out further historical infor…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI welcome your interest, Janet!
We are adding borderlands to Rust Belt Literature including bordering Windsor, Canada, and bordering Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Our Welcome has been revised to reflect this after someone at a different group pointed out the omission. So we go a bit beyond the Midwest, Janet. we already have interest from Pe…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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James Gifford deposited Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThis article gestures to the 1930s through 1950s international anarchist literary networks that ran from Paris to London and Athens, Cairo and Alexandria, Shanghai, Oxford and Cambridge, New York and San Francisco, and finally Big Sur and Vancouver. The distribution across these nodes was intense and sustained, but this project only hints at t…[Read more]
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Lily Saint started the topic CFP: "Genre in Africa" in Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
Special Issue: Genre in Africa
Guest Edited by Tsitsi Jaji and Lily Saint
This special issue considers genre from the perspective of the history of African cultural production. African postcolonialities present uniquely generative lenses through which to examine a pressing question in contemporary…[Read more] -
Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Friends,
I’m also interested in this group. However, I would like to give the group a more positive or neutral name than “Rust Belt.”
We may also want to connect with the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which has annual conferences in June in East Lansing at Michigan State University. These conferences include films, c…[Read more]
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Sandra Katherine Sprows replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am interested in being a part of the discussion group on “Rust Belt Literature.”
Thank you for starting this discussion.
Sandra
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoNicky Agate told me how to create the group “Rust Belt Literature” so it is now an independent discussion group–I think. I tried to make it as open as possible, since it may be a low traffic group.
Our first offering is my story Whiting Rich and Strange to be found in the CORE file deposit area (on your toolbar–keyword CORE.)
Please send me…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello, 20th-21st C. Am. Lit. Admins,
I spoke to Nicki Agate, one of the admins of the MLA Commons, about a category for “Rust Belt Literature.” There hasn’t been much space for those of us who grew up in steel mill and other industrial communities to discuss our attempts at transforming our life experiences into literature.
MLA CORE DEPOSIT N…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic CfP: Worlding Minor/Small Literatures in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe concept of “minor/small literatures” is Eurocentric, provincial, and regional not only because it has been defined along the lines of European standards, such as the geopolitics of small nations, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, and the aesthetics of revolutionary modernism, but also due to its identification with the lit…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
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Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)On the intersection of the tenth ann…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Hamlet's Delay: A New Perspective on the Sphinx in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAbstract: This article poses a challenge to contemporary historicist tendency to silence significant semantic threads within Hamlet, attempts to restore our critical interest in the age-old problem of delay of the protagonist, and thus distinguish the text in itself from its historicised version. In doing so, my over-all argument proposes an…[Read more]
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