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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease accept my apologies, Joe Lockard. It was my first time using this forum.
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Joe Lockard replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPrivate correspondence resulting from a CFP is inconsiderate use of a shared common forum. These messages go to 155 forum participants, not simply to the corresponding parties. Thanks for understanding.
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Prof. Whitney,
Thank you for your prompt reply and especially for your interest in this project. Your proposal sounds very promising as no viable notion of the good life can be conceived without taking into account its complicated relationship with economic growth. If I’m not mistaken, The Skidelskys, whom I cite in my brief descri…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease submit your abstract by August 15. Thank you.
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Susan Gorman replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for posting this Laura. It sounds really interesting. Where/when should we send abstracts?
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Lisa Propst started the topic CFP: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThis CFP might be of interest to the Women’s Studies forum:
Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)
Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Charles Whitney replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Laura,
Thanks for developing this topic. I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth. In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Electronic Review Copies of George Sand Novel in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago“The Romances of George Sand” (9/12/2014): email me for a free review copy at director@anaphoraliterary.com. Also, I hope you’ll add me as a friend/ fan/ or follow me on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn (search for my full name). Cheers, Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director, Anaphora Literary Press
More information on the book a…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic MLA 2015 CFP, Elena Poniatowska Criticism in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoOf interest to women’s studies scholars:
MLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE
Of interest to women’s studies scholars:
Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry
Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, j…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cf session proposals for 2015 Convention in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus (WGSC) of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes session proposals (panel, roundtable, seminar) for the 2015 Convention in Toronto ON Canada, April 30 – May 3. The deadline for submission is April 22, 2014, and the online proposal form will be available mid-March.<b> </b>Please see [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] -
Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoThis may be of interest to Women’s Studies members.
Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 19…[Read more] -
Svetlana Tyutina created the doc MLA 2015 – CFP “Open Access…Closing Doors?” in the group
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
The English Romantic Period on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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