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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org</div>
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This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic Deadline Extended – CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Cultu in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSymposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016
Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and
Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic New Journal:The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is pleased to announce the creation of a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. The journal will be published bi-annually beginning in Spring 2016 and will be available on the IARHS’ website, Robin Hood Scholars: I…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on working…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP- Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Michael Lackey started the topic CFP for book about Styron's Nat Turner Novel in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoRevisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner:
Fifty Years Later
Editor: Michael Lackey
The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in publishing a collection of essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was published in 1967. So that the boo…[Read more] -
Patricia Oman started the topic CFP: "The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early 20th c. Midwestern Regionalism" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoHastings College Press welcomes proposals for chapters for an edited volume focused on Midwestern regionalism during the first half of the twentieth century. The volume is tentatively entitled “The Midwestern Moment: Essays in Early-Twentieth Century Midwestern Regionalism.” Midwestern regionalism includes writers, artists, publishers, int…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration,
Saint’s progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay…[Read more] -
Doug Steward deposited THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise in the group
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of i…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: Elizabeth Keckley Reader in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoProposals are invited for A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader edited by Sheila Smith McKoy. The reader seeks to present a comprehensive view of Keckley’s remarkable life. Much like Keckley herself, the reader will be multi-faceted in its approach, examining her life through a variety of lenses. We are seeking essays, drama, fi…[Read more]
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