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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Tiffany Kraft deposited Je Suis Contingency: MLA 16 s. 526 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoA reflection on MLA 16 from the adjunct perspective.
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Linda V Troost deposited The Undead Eighteenth Century in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoIf Jane Austen had wanted to write about zombies, what might she have known about the walking dead in the early nineteenth century? In this 2010 presidential address for EC/ASECS, subsequently published in the society’s newsletter, I examine this question and take a look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
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Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoIn an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited Applied Blake: Milton's Response to Empire in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoStudying William Blake means studying the event of history, the way history merges with and emerges within theology, politics and philosophy. William Blake’s poetry has had a precarious relationship with history; his work resonates from very specific historical concerns and yet also seems to struggle against being confined to any formal h…[Read more]
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Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoLike other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]
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Linda M. Willem started the topic John Kronik Travel Grant in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoJohn Kronik Award: $1,000 Research and Travel Grant for Graduate Students, awarded by the International Association of Galdós Scholars.
Prerequisites:
Candidate must be a member of the International Association of Galdós Scholars.
The research project must either be on Galdós, or have a component focused on his work.
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Interesting project. Is there a deadline for submission of essays?
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Thank you for your question. The deadline is October 31, 2015. We hope that you will send an essay. Best wishes! Janet
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe deadline for submissions is July 12, 2015.
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Special Session Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoOrganizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at Au…[Read more]
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Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoIf you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:
Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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