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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting registration in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
June 2-5, 2016
The Stoweflake Inn at Stowe, Vermont
Early Bird Special for Registration ends April 1!Register here: http://www.planetreg.com/greenmountainhawthorne
Please please go to the website below to download a DRAFT of the program for the conference. This will be updated…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic Reminder – CFP: Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.
Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged. How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]
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Lillian Melendez deposited James Joyce’s Priesthood through his Art of Writing in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDreams are abstract thoughts in one’s mind that can be revealed. Thoughts that are suppressed can be revealed in the subconscious mind. Sigmund Freud views dreams as one views sleep; as an abstract code that can be decoded through actions and through the ‘slip of the tongue.’ The Freudian slip is found in several passages of A Portrait of the A…[Read more]
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Philip Goldstein replied to the topic MLA-Philadelphia. CFP: Form and The Public Intellectual in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDear Professor Bahr:
Below is a proposal for the forum on the status of the public intellectual. It is titled “Critical Theory: From Ideological Critique to Cultural Practices.” I hope you will consider it acceptable.
Best,
Philip Goldstein
Emeritus Professor of English,
University of Delaware
Unlike Marxist theory, which has declined in…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFPs: MLA 2016 Italian American LLC in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and eth…[Read more] -
Brooke Carlson deposited Expository Writing in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“The short story is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.” Simon Prosser, Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton
Expository Writing is crafted to help students learn to write and think critically. In an effort to hone our critical minds and strengthen our writing, we will focus on the learned skills of summarizing, par…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Volume on Teaching Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) and help shape a new volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017 Division Forum. You are encouraged to submit to…[Read more]
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Survey and CFP: Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o Forum CFP's in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of wr…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFPs: MLA 2017 Chicana/o Lit Forum in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Liberty Crack’d”
What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).
2. “La Raza y Gaza”
Papers engaging the political resonances of Palesti…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford Uni…[Read more]
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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic “Writing? Authoring? Scribbling: Fuller, Hawthorne, and Their Contemporaries” in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWe welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Space to Discuss CORE Deposits in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSome members of this group have sent insightful comments about CORE deposits shared with the TC Literary Criticism forum (see the left hand menu on this page) to the MLA Commons e-mail address. Please use this space to respond or discuss items uploaded to CORE so that everyone—including the author—can benefit from your insight.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThis panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.
Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged. How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the contemporary…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP: "Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent" (MLA) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]
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