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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Jesse A. Goldberg started the topic CFP: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies” in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Abolition Studies”
Sept 30 — Oct 1, 2022
Elmira, NY
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is hosting its annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the Fall 2022 semester, from September 30th to October 1st, organized around the theme of Abolition Studies. This year’s Keynote Address will…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoI think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more] -
Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Thinking with Austen: Literature, Philosophy, and Anne Elliot’s Inner World in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay discusses pedagogical approaches to teaching Austen’s Persuasion as a novel situated at the intersection of literature and philosophy. It focuses on how Persuasion takes up, talks back to, and helps illuminate classic philosophical questions about personhood, sociality, ethics, consciousness, and the space of inner life. It discusses c…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic Disability accommodations for authors in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI’m an MLA member who works on intersections between 19th-century literature, philosophy, and music. I’m reaching out to this group with a question: do you know of any academic presses that are willing to make accommodations for disabled authors?
My situation is that I’m a disabled independent scholar (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014) who has…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited Engaging Students: Using the MLA International Bibliography to Teach the Research Process in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoGet tips on using the MLA International Bibliography to teach scholarly concepts and analytical skills.
For more than a hundred years the Modern Language Association, creator of the MLA International Bibliography, has worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature. As part of that mission, the MLA has developed an online…[Read more]
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography, Charleston Library Conference, Nov. 2020 in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature, but did you know that the MLAIB can be brought into the classroom and used as an effective teaching tool as well? Learn how the most powerful research tool in the humanities is being used in the virtual classroom to engage…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited E.M. Forster, the Clapham Sect, and the Secular Public Sphere in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCritics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]
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