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Mary Baine Campbell replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoWonderful question, wonderful answers–I’ll just toss in four more: Borges, Seven Nights, Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, and in case anyone out there still considers poetry part of what we mean by “literary” (many non-litterateur friends of mine do, but I’m drawn to poetry-lovers), Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry and Glyn M…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoI love Artful!
Such a pleasure to share tastes; I’d be delighted if you submitted to readingsjournal.net
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear Steve,
thank you very much! All your suggestions are either books I like, or (incl. the beguilingly entitled work of your own) books that I probably will like. You are very warmly invited to join the journal I’m launching as an author and/or reviewer.:)
Best,
Alexandra
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Matthew Thomas Miller replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoIf you do recommend Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” I would also strongly recommend that you suggest that they read Fatemeh Keshavarz’s trenchant critique of it, “Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran.” Nafisi’s book is full of problems and, as Keshavarz argues, it–like Khaled Hosseini’s “Kite Runner” and many other…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoReading Lolita in Tehran never grabbed me, but it sure resonated with a broad public and has been translated into many languages. Ali Smith’s Artful is a strange amalgam, in which a well-done, ghoulish narrative of grief drives some otherwise not terribly interesting literary remarks, but the novelty of the form deserves a look. Then there are…[Read more]
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Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi Alexandra,
Books such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer come to mind, as do Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel and Charles Dickens: A Life. In general it looks like literary biographies and collections of author letters are most likely to be read for pleasure. A good example is Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives: Five Victorian…[Read more]
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Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi Alexandra,
Books such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer come to mind, as do Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel and Charles Dickens: A Life. In general it looks like literary biographies and collections of author letters are most likely to be read for pleasure. A good example is Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives: Five Victorian…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it i…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 201 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoQuantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance theater (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months ago2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear Sanjeev,
Thank you for your interest in our program. I will reply to you directly via e-mail. Please be aware that this forum distributes messages to all members of the forum/group.
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Claudia Cornejo Happel started the topic CFP: 2015 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago<h1 style=”text-align: center;”>SoTL Commons Conference
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
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Claudia Cornejo Happel started the topic CFP: 2015 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago<h1 style=”text-align: center;”>SoTL Commons Conference
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
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Claudia Cornejo Happel started the topic CFP: 2015 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
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Claudia Cornejo Happel started the topic CFP: 2015 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
<div style=”margin-left: 10em;”>When engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)“the work of the classroom [becomes] a site for inq…[Read more]
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Maria Luisa Martinez started the topic CFP for 46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson UniversityPanel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms
This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional
The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool fo…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Forum Members,
For anyone who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D., with the aim of teaching at a two-year college, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that prepares students for this type of job.
The Ph.D. is a distinctive program that integrates…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Forum Members,
For anyone who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D., with the aim of teaching literature and composition at a two-year college, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that aims to prepare students for these types of jobs.
The Ph.D. is a…[Read more]
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Patricia Comitini started the topic Call for Papers: Imaginary Relations in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoInviting Submissions to a new ejournal: Imaginary Relations: a Journal for the Ideological Critique of Aesthetic Objects (IR)
http://www.imaginaryrelations.netImaginary Relations is an experimental ejournal dedicated to ideological critique and analysis of aesthetic objects: poetry, fiction, drama, film and television. The journal seeks to examine the…[Read more]
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Aaron DeRosa started the topic CFP: Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue, Modern Fiction Studies
Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Guest Editors: Aaron DeRosa and Stacey Peebles
Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2016
The Editors of MFS seek essays that focus on the fictional response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The…[Read more]
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