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Jonathan Senchyne deposited The Aries Press of Eden, New York in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA review of Richard Kegler’s, The Aries Press of Eden, New York.
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Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE FOR LEAR SEMINAR APPROACHING in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoDEAR FOLKS,
THE DEADLINE FOR THE NEH SUMMER SEMINAR ON KING LEAR DIRECTED BY RICHARD STRIER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS SUMMER (JULY 10-28) IS MARCH 1. NON-TENURE TRACK AS WELL AS TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTORS ARE WELCOME TO APPLY. STIPEND IS $2700. DETAILS ON THE SEMINAR AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS CAN BE FOUND AT: [Read more]
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/07/duquesne-university-press-shut-down-later-year
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Matthew Davis deposited Lydgate at Long Melford: Reassessing the Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in Their Local Context in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe extracodical stanzas of John Lydgate’s Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in the Clopton chantry chapel of the Great Church of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, not only are two intriguing witnesses differing in presentation and language from the manuscript copies but also can be considered as part of a rhetorical program where…[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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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited The Art of the Book in the Digital Age syllabus (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe attached syllabus was written for my Honors undergraduate seminar “The Art of the Book in the Digital Age,” taught Fall 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. Here is an excerpt from the course description: “The book’s role and significance within literary culture is being scrutinized today with an intensity unseen for five centuries. Nowhere is this quest…[Read more]
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Steve Dolph started the topic MLA Off-Site Event: Out/Lines in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe expansive contours of the Iberian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, expressed in the imperial motto plus ultra or “further beyond,” can at times obscure the aporias (of ecologies, ethnicities, and epistemologies) at its fringes. Recent scholarship on the material cultures, political economies, and discourses of gender of imperial Spain has…[Read more]
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Latifa Zoulagh posted an update in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months 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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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24 February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Dr…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Edited Volume on Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Call for edited volume in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Jane S. Grogan started the topic International Spenser Society Hugh MacLean memorial lecture at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago<div>
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<div>Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at Amada, 217-219 Chestnut St,…[Read more] -
Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Convocatoria para próximo número de revista in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoEstimados colegas:
Adjunta encontrarán la convocatoria para el próximo número de Aula lírica:
“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). “Aula lírica is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays,…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election? in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDo you have suggestions?
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nom…[Read more]
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Faye Hammill deposited Modern Periodicals syllabus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSyllabus for a final-year undergraduate course on Modern Periodicals, exploring late 19th and early 20th-century magazines and newspapers from the UK, US and Canada.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Social Networking in the Scriptorium in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis course examines the literary, cultural, and material life of written correspondence from the poetic epistle to the snarky tweet. And while we will read and analyze epistolary literature (both fiction and nonfiction) such as Ovid’s Heroides, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and
Alice Walker’s A Color Purple, we focus our efforts on “real” letters o…[Read more] - Load More