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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Metadaten und OER : Geschichte einer Beziehung in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMetadaten stellen für offene Bildungsmaterialien einen essenziellen Bestandteil dar, erfahren bei der Produktion von OER aber leider immer noch nicht genügend Beachtung. Der vorliegende Beitrag hat sich daher zum Ziel gesetzt, eine historisch-diachrone Perspektive auf die Entwicklung von Metadaten im Allgemeinen und insbesondere auf den O…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoVery short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Victoria Saramago posted an update in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear all,
As a candidate for the Forum Executive Committee election that goes until December 10, I am writing to quickly introduce myself. I am an assistant professor of Brazilian literature at the University of Chicago working on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature with a focus on Brazil. I’ve been writing about Ecocriticism, f…[Read more] -
Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited The Past is a Foreign Country: World Musics Signifying History in/and Elizabethan Drama in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoResearch on global Shakespeare has focused on the ways in which the plays have been adapted for indigenous languages and customs. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which non-British directors have treated the Elizabethan drama. Yet there are a number of works that create direct musical dialogues between Elizabethan drama, history, and…[Read more]
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Hanan Elsayed posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWe would like to send a letter of concern to the Editor of The French Review about a recent article in The French Review, “L’islamisme à la conquête de la République française” by S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey. The letter explains how the article is a sub-scholarly exercise in Islamophobic discourse that has no place in an academic journal of any kin…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein deposited Open Stacks: Making DH Labor Visible in the group
TC Digital Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn this post, I discuss how digital labor is organized in what I call a “stack”: the often invisible technological, social, and physical structures within which scholarship is produced and disseminated. I discuss the DH stack through three different frames: first, the technology stack of globalized computing; second, the social stack that man…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic December 1 Deadline approaching for Chiricú Journal in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoReminder that the deadline for submissions to the Latinx literature edition of Chiricú Journal is a little over two weeks away. Please submit your critical articles, artwork, photography, creative writing, and interviews to chiricu.indiana.edu by December 1. If interested in reviewing a book, contact chiricu@indiana.edu. More information at our w…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – University of Miami – MLL Graduate Student Conference 2018 in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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