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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCall For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Batalla del embalse de Chosin: El patriotismo como refutación de la máxima de la ideología materialista “No hay psicología de grupos”, Psicología Social Allport 1927 y la conciencia social histórica: Dharma (hindú), confucianismo, valores filipinos kapwa- in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago¿Por qué es importante la conciencia social? Recientemente, desde aproximadamente el año 2000, han surgido una serie de comportamientos antisociales importantes.
1. Ha habido 396 tiroteos en escuelas en Estados Unidos.
2. CDC: Las tasas de suicidio aumentaron aproximadamente un 36 % entre 2000 y 2021.
3. Máximo histórico de tiroteos masi…[Read more] -
Eva Cherniavsky started the topic Updates from the Forum Executive Committee 12/28/23 in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Members of the TC Marxism, Literature and Society Forum,
I am writing on behalf of the Executive Committee of our forum with some information, and a call for self-nominations to serve on the Executive Committee and for your ideas for sessions that we can organize for the 2025 and 2026 MLA Conventions. I also wanted to inform you of a…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines how twentieth century Iranian readers situated Jane Eyre within the classical genre of romance literature (adabiyāt-i ʿāshiqāna), originating from the tradition of love narratives in verse (ʿishq-nāma) pioneered by the twelfth century Persian poet Nizami Ganjevi. While romance is only one among several of the original Jane…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines how twentieth century Iranian readers situated Jane Eyre within the classical genre of romance literature (adabiyāt-i ʿāshiqāna), originating from the tradition of love narratives in verse (ʿishq-nāma) pioneered by the twelfth century Persian poet Nizami Ganjevi. While romance is only one among several of the original Jane…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited The Need for Meaning: Understanding the Dimensions of the “Meanings of Life!” – Insights from ‘Great Thinkers’ including Jung, Frankl, Geertz, Baumeister, Dr. Paul Wong, Steger, Reker, Plus the Synthesis-Consensus of Frankl, Jung, & James – with preamb in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe Meaning of Meaning As a metaphor, which might give a better perspective of meaning, could possibly be compared to the role and purpose of blood in physiology and the human body. Meaning, like blood is essential to life. We live and breathe meaning. That’s what our world is made of-meaning. Similar to how blood circulates through our body and…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Art and Spirituality: Paul Klee – synthesizing the “inner vision” with “outside experience.” Philosopher Langer highlighted the origins of spirituality; Carl Jung focused on the social or collective psyche as and influence & Carole Cusack – spiritual-reli in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoPaul Klee, a German artist, highlighted the eternal struggle of human beings to synthesize the “inner vision” with “outside experience.” “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”-Michelangelo “Beauty is the illumination of the soul!”-Poet-Theologian O’Donohue, Art & the Unconscious Psyche-Psychic Life Carl Jung…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Historical Synergies & Mannheim – from Sumerian Temple Economy, Hunter Gatherers, Greek Patriarchal Gods, to D Hay’s Extreme Individualism:(Age of Reason – Hobbes, social contract) + Rappaport, Durkheim, Voltaire, Gasset, Nietzsche in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoHistoricaql Synergies 1. The Sumerians created a palace/temple -economy with a centralized over-ruling organization which controlled crop production and distribution of some goods. A centralized government was necessary because the Sumerians subsisted on crops which required centralized irrigation systems. So, the Sumerian religious temple economy…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Mga emosyon, kahulugan at sistema ng simbolo: Damasio, Solomon, Tolstoy, Jung, James, Furlotti at Kalsched; “pansin” ni E Klinger; Funk at Gazzanigna [neuroscience]: “Ang moralidad ay isang hanay ng mga kumplikadong emosyonal at nagbibigay-malay na proses in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWalang alinlangan na ang mga emosyon ay napakahalaga at napakahalaga sa pagproseso ng data at impormasyon, gayundin sa pang-araw-araw na paggana ng tao. Eric Klinger, na ang kadalubhasaan ay sa personality psychology at motivation theory, ay nakatuon sa mga impluwensya ng motibasyon at damdamin sa katalusan. Iminumungkahi ni Klinger ang isang…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Teorya ng Apat na Pangangailangan na [sapat] Nagpapaliwanag at Naglalarawan sa Relihiyon: Ang Apat na Pangunahing Drive: Ang Pangangailangan para sa Kahulugan, Ang Pangangailangan sa Pag-aari, Pangangailangan para sa Ideolohiya, at ang Espirituwal na Driv in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoTeorya ng Apat na Pangangailangan na [sapat] Nagpapaliwanag at Naglalarawan sa Relihiyon Ang Apat na Pangunahing Drive: Ang Pangangailangan para sa Kahulugan, Ang Pangangailangan sa Pag-aari, Ang Pangangailangan para sa Ideolohiya, at ang Espirituwal na Drive Ang aking argumento ay ang mga paniniwala sa relihiyon ay pangunahing nilikha at nabuo ng…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Dharma and the Physicians: Ethic reflections in early Ayurvedic literature (pre-submission draft) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay shows that physicians of early Āyurveda adopted a pragmatic approach to the challenges dharma imposed on them. While the concept and its importance is generally accepted in the medical compendia, various passages stress the fact that good health is an indispensable precondition to pursue dharma and other goals of life. In the interests…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited A Theory of Four Needs That [Adequately] Explains Religion: The Need for Meaning, The Need for Belonging, The Need for Ideology, and the Spiritual Drive – a NEW concept in psychology in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoMy argument is that religious beliefs are primarily created and generated by four very basic and fundamental “Needs” or “Drives.” From a rather practical and pragmatic approach, in general, religions could be said to involve meaning or purpose, others and relationships, as well as structures and principles for both meaning, relationships, and gro…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Is art ideology? Prehistoric art,, shamanism, cave paintings & music from 30 to 40,000 years ago, “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition. It is more primal than institutional religion…” – K Adams, B Hyde = TRUE – flutes from 35,000 years ago d in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoKaren Armstrong, In her book, The Case For God, opens with the discussion of the 300 plus caves in Southern France and Northern Spain which have amazingly artistic ‘prehistoric’ cave paintings of prehistoric animals many of whom are now extinct, some dating to 30,000 years ago. “In all there are about six hundred frescoes and fifteen hundred engra…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Comentario y crítica de Jorge Liberati. in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRevista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo. -
Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Lectio praecursoria: The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis text consists of the ‘lectio praecursoria’ given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation “The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal”. This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]
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Krzysztof Fordonski deposited Polish Journal of English Studies 9.1/2023 in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis issue of the PJES brings five new papers: E. M. Forster’s Last Love by Peter J Conradi Redeeming Time: Henry V’s Transition from ‘Comedian’ to King by David Livingstone Escaping the Women’s Sphere by Jana Valová Principles of Mood Selection in Psalm 20: A Diachronic Study on Psalm Translations from Old to Late Modern English by Kinga Lis…[Read more]
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Krzysztof Fordonski deposited Polish Journal of English Studies 9.2/2023 in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIssue of the PJES dedicated to old age in literature CONTENTS From the Editor Ageing into Old Age: Literary Conclusions and New Beginnings Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Ann Radcliffe’s Ruminations on the Ageing Body in The Romance of the Forest (1791) Roslyn Joy Irving, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Univ…[Read more]
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