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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]
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Anita Savo started the topic CFP for New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoNew England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, METhis conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoPaul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoMedieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Carissa Harris started the topic MLA 2023 CFPs! in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:
Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry
This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Feminist/Queer Reading in Honor of Simon Gaunt in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoNew Directions in Feminist and Queer Readings of Medieval French Literature: a Session in Honor of Simon Gaunt
Simon Gaunt’s research interests were remarkably varied: from Romance philology to psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and beyond. This panel honors one important part of his legacy: his groundbreaking feminist and queer readings of m…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Fictions of the Sacred in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe omnipresence of religious rhetoric in medieval French culture is among the most salient and often among the most alienating cultural juggernauts faced by students and scholars alike. Yet, sacred biography–hagiographical, Marian, and Christological–has not fully found its place in the discipline of medieval French studies. As a corpus at onc…[Read more]
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Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoWhat started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]
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Eliza Zingesser started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Occitan on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear all,
Happy new year! As you probably know, the MLA has asked all of the executive committees to solicit nominations from all members for their next executive committee member. If you would like to nominate someone to serve on the Occitan EC, or if you would like to nominate yourself, please reply here or write to me at…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years agoComo homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.
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