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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Haunting Raveloe in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoExploration of how “Silas Marner” is George Eliot’s means to distinguish herself from those who are truly guilty of abandoning parental mores… ancestors, parents, themselves. An argument is made that the reason for the text is as provision for the author to temporarily relieve herself of guilt.
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Please into Pain, Pain into Pleasure in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoExploration of how Mary Shelley uses her textual creation “Frankenstein” to engage with crippling feelings of growth panic that arose out of her recent adult self-actualization.
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Having Your Beefcake, and Leaving Him Too in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years agoExploration of how Aphra Behn uses her textual creation “Oronnoko” to engage in a guiltless sexual affair that bypasses all societal and inner-psychic censors.
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Everything Change, Volume II, a climate fiction anthology in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoYesterday, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II. The anthology features 10 short stories from ASU’s 2018 global climate fiction contest, plus a foreword by renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is free to dow…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Maren T. Linett started the topic Call for Papers, MLA 2020, Seattle in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoTitle: Disability Bioethics
Description & Requirements:How does thinking about disability inform our understanding of bioethical issues, broadly defined, in literature and/or culture? 300-word abstract to Maren Linett at mlinett@purdue.edu.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2019
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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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