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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Kate Ozment deposited Expanding Access: Feminist Scholarship and the Women in Book History Bibliography in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoInspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]
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Moacir P. de Sá Pereira started the topic CfP: “Mapping the Text,” NYU, 21 April 2018. DEADLINE: 12 January 2018 in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDeadline for submissions:
12 January 2018
Contact email:
conference-2018@mapping-the-text.org
Plenary speaker:
Professor Sally Bushell , Lancaster University
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the “Mapping the Text” conference, occurring at New York University on Saturday 21 April 2018. The conference will be held…[Read more] -
Stephanie Rountree created the doc CFP: New Media and the U.S. South [Edited Collection] in the group
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theories of Text and Technology Syllabus in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for a graduate-level course with the following overview: “We will examine how theoretical discourse has evolved through shifting technological platforms, with particular attention to the challenges software, code, and networks present to our understanding of texts. We will engage with examples of complex procedural works ranging from…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theories of Text and Technology Syllabus in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for a graduate-level course with the following overview: “We will examine how theoretical discourse has evolved through shifting technological platforms, with particular attention to the challenges software, code, and networks present to our understanding of texts. We will engage with examples of complex procedural works ranging from…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun posted an update in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoCFP: Transformative Projects in the Digital Humanities
While the debates in and around the digital humanities continue–what they are, why they are, what they contribute to humanities scholarship–those working in the field know the truly transformative work being done both nationally and internationally. This proposed collection of essays,…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 3: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Stage 3 revision sets up the Theory Palette with hues and tones of green (author, history, and nature), yellow (culture), purple (psyche), grey (text), red (reader), dark blue (literature), light blue (language), rose (embodiment/perception), and hot pink (intersectional feminisms).
Airbrush and pencil tools suggest color blending without…[Read more]
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Laura L. Runge posted an update in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA Session 630. Preserving and Circulating Women’s Texts, 1660-1740, Saturday, 6 January 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM, Chelsea (Sheraton)
Keywords: Digital Humanities, British Women’s Writing, 1660-1740, Book History
Presentations:
1. Expanding Access: The Role of the Women in Book History Bibliography, Kate Ozment (Texas A&M U)
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Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Deck Lee and the Location of The Professor in Post Soul Literary Plots in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe professor character is no stranger to readers of contemporary African American literature. Indeed, the variety and ubiquity of a professorial character across a range of post soul fictional novels is not simply a curiosity to comment on, but phenomena available for critical interrogation. This analysis explores the location of Deck Lee’s c…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Metadaten und OER : Geschichte einer Beziehung in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMetadaten stellen für offene Bildungsmaterialien einen essenziellen Bestandteil dar, erfahren bei der Produktion von OER aber leider immer noch nicht genügend Beachtung. Der vorliegende Beitrag hat sich daher zum Ziel gesetzt, eine historisch-diachrone Perspektive auf die Entwicklung von Metadaten im Allgemeinen und insbesondere auf den O…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Song of Myself: Autobiography in Pop Music in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn essay on autobiography in pop songs by women: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/singing-about-yourself-autobiography-in-pop-music.html
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] - Load More
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