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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Yasser Elhariry started the topic CFP: Cultures of Mysticism (Expressions maghrébines) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoExpressions maghrébines
Revue de la coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures du Maghreb
http://www.ub.edu/cdona/em
Vol. 16, No. 2, Winter 2017: Call for Papers
Cultures of Mysticism
Edited by Yasser Elhariry
Final Papers Submission Deadline: 31 January 2017
Publication: December 2017
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Digital, humain : Proust au vingt-et-unième siècle in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoDigital reading is not just a matter of new media; it is a new cognitive activity that Proust’s writing seems to have anticipated. Our goal is to demonstrate that the “branching and responding text” that was announced by Ted Nelson in Litary Machines corresponds in its very logic and patterns to the new writing style that is to be observed in Pr…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic CFP Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Sessions through Italian American LLC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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Laraine R. Fergenson deposited Final Report of the MLA Committee on Diversity and Tolerance in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance was formed in response to a motion passed by the Delegate Assembly in 1999 calling for the reconstitution of what had been the Task Force against Campus Bigotry. The new committee was to be charged with “working to establish a climate in which all students, faculty, and other college employees, no m…[Read more]
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoEarly American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec started the topic CFP: "Machine Translation Before 1800" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoContributors are invited for a special session on “Machine Translation Before 1800” for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (January 5–8, 2017).
Translation has usually been conceived as a relationship between individual persons or texts across languages. How does thinking in terms of systems, teams, and conditions instead of indiv…[Read more]
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