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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Jeremy,
thank you so much!
I feel very grateful and slightly guilty to have provoked such a detailed response. I had a look at some of the lists you suggest, and, of course, I have my own favorites (some of which you mention), but I was curious to see what people here in the MLA forum would say…
P.S. Among the books I haven’t read yet,…[Read more]
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Jeremy Douglass replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoLiterary scholarship for book-loving non-academics? That is a really interesting (and quite broad) challenge. I like the idea of promoting literary criticism to a broad audience — whether through public reviews or through holiday gift-giving.
It occurs to me that the top social book platforms on the web may already have an approximate answer to…[Read more]
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Sharon Shaloo replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoJames Woods would seem to fill your bill. HOW FICTION WORKS is the more “litcrit,” to invoke your categorization, and THE FUN STUFF has gestures to other arts/performance. Both are wonderfully readable.
Sharon Shaloo, Mass Center for the Book
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agonot a litcrit book, alas — still, thank you!
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Patrick Crapanzano replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Alexandra,
I like the idea of your post. One book that comes to mind is A Brave Vessel, by Hobson Woodward. It doesn’t have the pop-currency potential as Will of the World, but it’s approachable for normal people interested in The Tempest and the Sea Venture’s wreck on Bermuda.
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it is we as a species actually do: perhaps w…[Read more]
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Rhea Riegel replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoGreat!
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Massimilla Pialorsi replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear Rhea Riegel:
Taking into consideration the powerful topic of “The World Upside-Down”, I’ll go ahead and submit my proposal in English. Thanks.
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Rhea Riegel replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi Massimilla – I hoped to meet with the conference committee before answering your question, but neither do I want to keep you waiting. I won’t be able to connect with the committee quickly enough, so I would say that you should go ahead and submit your abstract as you want to present it, but also to note whether or not you would be willing to…[Read more]
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Massimilla Pialorsi replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi, my topic would be around Álvaro Cunqueiro, a Spanish A-vanguard author, who practices Magical Realism and who grounds his work into the World-up Side Down, parody, irony and humor (Bakhtin, etc.). Do you accept abstract (and paper) in Spanish? Thanks. Massimilla Pialorsi-Lewis.
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Rhea Riegel replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi Marilyn – it is an interdisciplinary conference so politics is fine. The session that is open for paper submissions is “Carnival and Satire” so if your topic fits that, we would welcome your abstract. Either way, we hope you can attend the conference in April!
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Marilyn J. Shapiro replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoI have a political topic for a “world upside down.”
It has nothing to do with literature but with political stances taken by literary organizations that I believe are unnecessarily naive and misguided.Marilyn Shapiro
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Rhea Riegel started the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoThe Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the theme The World Upside-Down, April 10-11, 2015. We are interested in sub-themes that explore the notion of “the world upside-down”—the multifarious historical and contemporary meanings of the concept, as it expresses itself…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkDate: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch O…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more] -
Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
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Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish / Portuguese) in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoAdvertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer…[Read more] - Load More
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