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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Alberto Ribas-Casasayas posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCall for articles. Spectral Mexico: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-articles-spectral-mexico-3/
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Migratory Dialectics and Border Semiosis in Ana Castillo’s Chicana Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMy paper argues for a shift in our theoretical focus on time in narrative dialectics and a post-Barthesian semiotic model for critical interpretations of Latino/a/x border narratives. Currently, we know that border narratives reveal the underlying patterns of literary communicative acts of difference (i.e., oral and literary ambiguity, high…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein deposited “And There Was a Large Number of People”: The Occom Circle Project at the Dartmouth College Library in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe Dartmouth College Library’s Occom Circle Project produced a scholarly digital edition of the papers of Samson Occom (1723–1792), a Mohegan Indian and the most widely published Native American writer of the 18th century. This chapter describes the development of the Dartmouth College Library’s project management process. The Library at the t…[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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 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 Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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 Critical and the Creative: A Feminist Praxis for Borderland Narratives of the U.S./North America(s) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original abstract file: This paper presentation examines the hermeneutic and epistemological impacts of developing a feminist praxis for researching borderland narratives in the northern Americas. Borderlands in the northern Americas will be discussed as lands that border two countries (one of which is the U.S.), islands that border…[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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 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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Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.
In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Life Writing Group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDavid Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct ‘authors’ using anything above the nineteen most-common words…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 wor…[Read more] - Load More
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