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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic “Cognitive” sessions at the MLA! (527, 645) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years agoDon’t miss these two online sessions on cognitive literary theory! Session “Sadness” (527, Saturday, January 8) features papers by Haiyan Lee and Lisa Zunshine, while “Life-Writing and Cognition” (645, Sunday, January 9) features papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Exec Committee Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me. Thank you, Sophia
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has adopted a new process for populating the forum roster. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you would like to to recommend a member to serve (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia
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Melanie Jones replied to the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoUPDATE: The deadline for abstracts and submissions is now rolling.
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Melanie Jones started the topic “Global Dostoevskys,” North American Dostoevsky Society in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe North American Dostoevsky Society invites proposals for blog posts on the topic of “Global Dostoevskys: Influences and Receptions” for our official blog The Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited series should focus on an aspect of Dostoevsky’s influence and reception outside of Russia. Less researched sites of influence and unexp…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Ann Komaromi started the topic Delegate Assembly Representative – Call for nominations in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoWe are seeking a candidate suggested by the membership of the Russian and Eurasian Forum to be our Delegate Assembly representative (info on the position can be found here: https://governance.mla.hcommons-staging.org). Members may nominate themselves for this position. Please send your name or the name of the member suggested, affiliation,…[Read more]
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Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.
Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoImagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more] -
Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP: The Art of Unselfing (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Cognitive and Affect Studies and Philosophy and Literature forums invite papers that engage the philosophy, cognition, or emotions of unselfing in literature and/or art for the 2022 MLA meeting. Collaborative, non-guaranteed session. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March to mhulstyn@fsu.edu.
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Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Our Aesthetic Contexts" (MLA 2022) in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe MLA Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Our Aesthetic Contexts” at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC. We invite papers on how the situational, relational, and mediated contexts in which audiences encounter the arts (including fiction, poetry, theater, film, visual art, music, and dan…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWith the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.
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Ellen Spolsky deposited An Embodied View of Misunderstanding in Macbeth in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe article discusses the relationship among philosophical and cognitive theories of understanding intentionality, pointing to particular strengths and weaknesses which bear on their usefulness to literary studies. My claim is that their gaps and their complementarity can be seen with particular clarity when they are used to describe interpretive…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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