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Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
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Jesse Miller started the topic CFP (NeMLA 2017): The Book Review: Contemporary Forms, Forums, and Forces in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe below roundtable to take place at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Baltimore, MD March 23-26, 2017 may be of interest:
Academic literary critics have long eyed book reviewers, their public counterparts, with suspicion. For example, in The Armed Vision, a 1948 study of the methods of modern literary…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Princeton Center for Digital Humanities Design Review Document in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoA document detailing the scope, projected outcomes, and design of my coding project with the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. The project was successfully defended and reviewed in December 2015.
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Natalie Berkman deposited Digital Humanities Design Review Evaluation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Princeton Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) director, Meredith Martin, sent this letter to my advisor and the other professors on my dissertation committee to alert them of the successful status of my design review document. This document certifies that my project has been peer reviewed by the CDH committee and is on track towards timely completion.
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Gnosticism in Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur: New Textual Evidence for Source Materials in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPrevious scholarship on source materials for Lawrence Durrell’s Gnostic themes in Monsieur are insufficient in light of his marginalia in Serge Hutin’s Les Gnostiques and his notebooks for the novel. We contend that archival evidence from the Bibliothèque Lawrence Durrell in Nanterre, France, necessitates a reevaluation of previous work in orde…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Manuscript of Claude Dupin's Commentary on Montesquieu's 'Esprit des lois' in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoClaude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’ in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author; and Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes, published before 1755 and also suppressed.…[Read more]
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TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
Gender, Performance, and Material CultureSeries Editors: Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College, CUNY,
and Helen Ostovich, McMaster UniversityThis series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED and the Prospect of Networked Data in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoIn today’s DH environment, where big data and linked data are increasingly the focus of scholars looking for ways to extend their research questions through more expansive and complementary datasets, what is the role of the individual research project? Is its value now truly in integration and association and aggregation with other d…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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