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A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis

I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia.  The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.

You can read the  MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh

Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]

If, as Marshall McLuhan famously asserts, media act as prosthesis, then our increasingly haptic relationship to digital technologies (think the nearly ubiquitous touchscreen interface of tablets and smart phones, as well as the rise of immersive VR as evidenced by Facebook’s recently announced acquisition of Oculus) seems only natural. What, then,…[Read more]

How do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]

This panel explores theoretical implications and analytical challenges of literary works in ‘weird’ non-print forms. 500-word abstract and two-page vita in one PDF. by 15 March 2014; Jason Camlot (jason.camlot@concordia.ca).

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

Dear Group Members

I’d like to announce a new publication that could be of interest. Thank you!

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415735650/

Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and…[Read more]

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives is pleased to announce its secod Call for Papers for the next MLA convention, to be held in Vancouver in January 2015:

<span>”Immigration and Comics”</span>

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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA)…[Read more]

<span>”Immigration and Comics”
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<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.</span>

<span> Recently, the…[Read more]

Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London…[Read more]

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]

Applications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz.  From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]