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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures
The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for This Forum's Fall 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMS Screen Arts and Culture will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in an election that 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 n…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and 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 nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Solicitation of Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSuggestions from members are needed in advance of the next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative, which will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will consider these suggestions when it takes up the matter of nominations during its business meeting at the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Tho…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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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
TM Literary Criticism 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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Margaret C. Flinn started the topic New M.A. Program in Film Studies in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Ohio State University Master of Arts in Film Studies
The Ohio State University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Film Studies. Film Studies at Ohio State (https://film-studies.osu.edu) is a multicultural, international, and interdisciplinary program, which approaches cinema as both art and as international social practice. The M.A.…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agon his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Nineteenth-century railway novels: the crowd-pleasing covers in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/
Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.<script src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” async=”” charset=”utf-8″></script>
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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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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an…[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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