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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry uploaded the file: CFP: “Water Logics” International Conference April 11-12, 2019, Tulane University to
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoConvened by
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: Working Group on Italian American/Canadian in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoItalian American and Italian Canadian Is Multi-Ethnic Too
Class, gender, migration, history, diaspora, ethnicity, politics, radicals, working class, cinema, foodways, literature, media, popular culture, cultural studies, theory, 250-word abstract. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville (calabret@uak.edu); Alan Gravano, Rocky…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
note that all…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion
Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
note that all…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Violenza, famiglia e genere. Il romanzo di ambiente poliziesco di Melania G. Mazzucco in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoViolence, Family and Gender: Melania G. Mazzucco’s crime novel.
The novel Un giorno perfetto (A Perfect Day, 2005), which was adapted for the cinema by
Ferzan Özpetek in 2008, is Melania G. Mazzucco’s only novel to date to foray into the
terrain of crime fiction. The frenetic pacing, the penchant for the ordinary and quotidian,
and the feti…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Note intorno a una traduzione di Bontempelli in catalano in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe Author analyses the Catalan translation of “La donna dei miei sogni a altre avventure moderne”, a volume of tales written by Massimo Bontempelli. This essay also includes a study about the Bontempelli’s reception in Catalonia and an interview with the Catalan poet Palau i Fabre, who reviewed the book in 1935 in “La Veu de Catalunya”.
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg 28-31/8 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago[English version below]
Care colleghe e cari colleghi,
siamo lieti di segnalarvi l’apertura delle iscrizioni alla prima Summer School Enthymema “Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea”, che si terrà dal 28 al 31 agosto a Monopoli (BA).
Le iscrizioni sono aperte fino al 30 aprile.…[Read more] -
Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we are glad to announce that registration is now open for the first Summer School Enthymema “Family morphologies: Leone and Natalia Ginzburg in Italian and European literature and culture”, which will take place 28th-31st August 2017, in Monopoli (Puglia), Italy.
The deadline for registration is 30th April 2017.
Among the…[Read more] -
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI@Palermo 2017: Call for Papers in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 9 years agoCALL For Papers
AATI International Conference Abroad
Università degli Studi di Palermo
28 giugno – 2 luglio 2017
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Palermo, 28 giugno-2 luglio 2017, presso l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, co…[Read more]
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Nicoletta Marini-Maio started the topic gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is available online in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is now online. It includes outstanding research on the theme of gender and language (Themed Section and Invited Perspectives) and other topics related to gender (Open Contributions). gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 also hosts relevant multimedia files, interviews, and book reviews.…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’egoismo di Federigo Tozzi in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLettura della trilogia tozziana di prose poetiche (“Bestie”, “Cose” e “Persone”) sulla base delle confluenze con l’opera stirneriana “L’unico e la sua proprietà”.
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Latifa Zoulagh posted an update in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLooking for a female roommate!
Is anyone (female) willing to share her room, I will be staying the 5th and the 6th?
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