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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative Rhetoric and the Mind (ACLA 2017) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)
Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysis, and…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Teaching Rust Belt Literature in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. Consider offering an MLA panel on RBL.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Anu Aneja replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi Nicky,
Here is the link to my recently published co-authored book (with Shubhangi Vaidya) entitled Embodying Mothering: Perspectives from Contemporary India. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/embodying-motherhood/<
Best wishes!Anu Aneja
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Kelly Sultzbach replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello Nicky and my fellow teacher-scholars,
I appreciate the chance to share my forthcoming book publication: Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden. It is coming out from Cambridge UP in September.
I will follow Petar’s lead and include the official link…[Read more]
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Petar Penda replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Nicky,
Thank you for this opportunity to share our news.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing published The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare in May, a collection of essays I edited.
Here’s the link to the book: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-whirlwind-of-passion
With best wishes,
Petar Penda -
Aryandes Aaron Lacayo replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi Nicky,
Thank you for letting us know! My English translation of a novella in Spanish (from El Salvador) was recently published: They Have Fired Her Again by Claudia Hernández.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Aarón Lacayo
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Col…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn Interview with Alexa Huang, George Washington University | The Blotted Line
“I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPeter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.
12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]
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Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPeter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.
12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on the teaching of literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comic…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited Eng 260/AAS 264 – Introduction to Black Writers: Global Black Fiction in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis course focuses on developing skills of close reading and literary analysis, both in class discussion and in assignments, through the study of major black writers. This section will be a study of global black literature—novels, drama, and poetry—written in English from the twentieth century to the present. We will consider how major aut…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students entering in the fall, one for an M.A.…[Read more]
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Peter C. Pfeiffer started the topic Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education (CUALHE) is a loose confederation of programs and departments engaged and interested in learning outcomes assessment of humanities and languages. We have had a couple of meetings where projects have been presented and certain issues of humanities learning have been highlighted.…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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