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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoMLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]
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Eileen McGinnis deposited The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoToday, Lady Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer – for an algorithm she co-authored with inventor Charles Babbage in 1843. She has also become, per biographer Betty Toole, a “modern myth,” whose very ambiguity and otherness encourage readers’ self-invention around gender and tech, human-machine interactions, and female sexuali…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Kafka and ideology of race in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoHi, all,
As someone partly of both German and Czech background, I feel very torn in some ways similarly to the old boy Kafka himself. Rather than ignoring the issue of Czechs and Germans as so many writers are doing, or–worse–siding with one or other, why not take a more interesting question: given that Czech-speakers and German-speakers (and…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:
Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms
Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited "Write YOUR Story" children's writing workshop in the news! in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoIn this free workshop, children and preteens (age 8-12) creatively explore and expand their sense of self by thinking and writing about their life – past, present, and future. Group activities, games, solitary writing, and illustrating provide for a fun and productive setting. Students will receive individual attention and gradually realize how…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:
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Peter Leman started the topic Invitation to "Legal and Literary Persons" special session in Austin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Colleagues,
As you make plans for the convention later this week, I’d like to draw your attention to a special session that will be of particular interest to those working in law and the humanities. The session, “Legal and Literary Persons,” highlights several innovative approaches to the concept of personhood in a range of natio…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: Technologies of Writing in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Journal of Creative Technologies invites proposals for a special cross -disciplinary issue exploring ‘Technologies of Writing’ to be published in late 2016. Diverse definitions and modes of ‘writing’ are welcome. We also encourage the use of multimodal forms of publication, eg images, video, sound. We are seeking articles from a wide range of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic An invitation to a literary trivia quiz in Austin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Brandon Taylor deposited The Pleasure of Walter White’s Grotesque Odyssey: Complex Narrative Escalation in AMC’s Breaking Bad (2008-2013) in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article maps the emergence and prevalence of the white heterosexual male psychopath in modern American commercial television through an analysis of the final three episodes of Breaking Bad (2009-2013).
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and even to share some of your own.
– Nicky Agate…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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