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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month 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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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe deadline is approaching!
In order to participate in the 2018 Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit your abstract of 250-300 words to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18, 2017.
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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 Law and the 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] -
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
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American 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] -
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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Caren Irr deposited The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn examination of spatial themes in the emerging genre of environmental fiction. Originally presented as a talk at the Futures of American Literature event at Uppsala University (Sweden).
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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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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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s “Beneath the Roses” in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[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 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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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
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of Literary and Cultural Theory, 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 The Great Automatic Grammatizator: writing, labour, computers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWhat does it mean when we say that computers can ‘write’ and how are recent developments in neural networks and machine learning changing this capacity? This article examines the long-standing literary fear of authorship being replaced by machines while also interrogating the labour and credit implications that sit behind widely used str…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago“Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer review and charge for their publishing services but do not, in fact, actually perform such reviews. Most prominently exposed in recent years by Jeffrey Beall, the phenomenon garners much media attention. In this article, we ack…[Read more]
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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