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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
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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Rich Willis deposited “Three instances of “it” made “more agreeable” in “As You Like It” breathed abroad are: in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“As You Like It” breathed abroad is as in an understanding of compare to the treatment of Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” in the name of Sir Thomas Walsingham and his wife Lady Audrey.
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCongrats on your nomination, Katherine! I am so happy to learn about your interesting work, and very much look forward to meeting (in whatever form) before too long! All best wishes, Julie Grossman
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Katherine Gillen replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi everyone! I’m also candidate for the Adaptation Forum’s executive committee, so I wanted to introduce myself. I’m honored to have been nominated alongside Joyce, whose work I greatly admire!
I teach Shakespeare, early modern lit, and drama at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, and I emphasize adaptation/appropriation throughout these cour…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman replied to the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoExcited about your nomination, Joyce–and thank you for your interest in expanding adaptation studies within the MLA! All best wishes, Julie Grossman
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Joyce Green MacDonald started the topic MLA Election in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGreetings, everyone. I’ve been nominated as a candidate for the Adaptation Studies executive committee, and wanted to introduce myself to all members.
I teach Shakespeare and other early modern topics at the University of Kentucky. My work on race in Shakespeare studies has largely focused on adaptation; my most recent book is Shakespearean…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic MLA election in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe MLA office asked candidates for election to a forum’s executive committee to post here.
Hi, everyone! My name is Alexa, and I teach Shakespeare, race, and gender in the Department of English in George Washington University. I would like to introduce myself.
I chaired the MLA committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare and served on…[Read more]
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Erin Schreiner started the topic CFA: BSA Pantzer Senior Fellowship in the British Book Trades in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn keeping with the central value the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. In addition to a range of Fellowships, we would like to call your…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Epilogue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe epilogue tackles the ramifications of these new modes of inscribing temporally and visually ambiguous articulations of Shakespeare and China into a global vernacular in theater (Lin Zhaohua’s Richard III) and cinema (Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet). A paradox of infatuation with Asian visuality and rejection of ethnic authenticity emerged in the…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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