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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare: A Critical Introduction.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Ema Vyroubalova, Elizabeth Pentland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare: A Critical Introduction.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Ema Vyroubalova, Elizabeth Pentland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza started the topic MLA 2022 Convention -Call for Papers in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoMLA 2022 Convention
Calls for Papers: LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama
Interruption: Theory and Concepts
Papers on breaks, pauses, paralysis, psychological and mechanical break-downs, failures, etc. as related to theatrical theory, practice in/about early modern Spain. Send abstract (250 words), short CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (Spanish version) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis unit (Text, intro, and notes in Spanish) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline of nobility, prostitution, witchcraft, money,…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline…[Read more]
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Jean-Claude Carron started the topic Sixteenth-Century French Poetry Auction in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoOffrez-vous, entre autres, l’édition originale de la Défense ou les Oeuvres des Dames des Roches, de la collection Barbier-Mueller à Genève. Voir cette information parue dans Le Temps:
“… Si Les Hymnes ne constituent pas la plus importante des pièces proposées, ce recueil de Pierre de Ronsard était pour Barbier-Mueller l’un des plus beaux ouv…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic CFPs: 16th-Century French–LLC for MLA 2022 Washington, DC (Due: 15 March) in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years ago1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies
The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry started the topic Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 5 years agoWhen the MLA Went Global: What is Global in the Global Hispanophone?
The Global Hispanophone Forum is organizing a round table with seven participants representing the different global forums in the MLA. This panel seeks to interrogate the notion of the global from different angles. What is global in the Global Hispanophone, Lusophone,…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years agoCalls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022
How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021: Forum Panels in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider attending one or both of the panels sponsored by our forum at MLA 2021 in the next few days:
“Revisiting William Morris and the Arts and Crafts: Reception and Influence,” our co-sponsored panel, is scheduled for Thursday, January 7th from 5:15pm – 6:30pm (EDT).
“From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of Collections” is…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Canonicity and Medieval Hispanic Studies in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSince the 1980s, there has been much discussion of the question of the literary canon. Our colleages in English have been particularly outspoken on the question (Charles Altieri 1990; Jan Gorak 1991 and 2000; John Guillory 1993; Gregory Jay 1997) and in recent years, Hispanists such as José María Pozuelo Yvancos and María Rosa Adrada Sánchez (20…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic André Tournon, “Rire pour comprendre…” now available from Classiques Garnier in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Whitney Trettien deposited Cultures of the Book (ENGL 034, taught remotely Fall 2020) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe book: it’s a soothingly familiar technology, one we all know how to operate. Open the front covers to reveal the text; turn the page to continue reading. Yet even the most seemingly ordinary aspects of the book, like titles and page numbers, had to be invented. In this course, we will work to defamiliarize the book, investigating how the f…[Read more]
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