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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Jeffery Moser replied to the topic 2016 MLA Election : Book History, Print Cultures and Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSounds wonderful. It really does help the reader to know the genre and century anyone is writing about. “Material culture” is quite a broad and vague term. Therefore, any further specificity is also useful. At least that is what I find in my work. We may also take note of the fact that our earliest writers had some of the best eyesight (not just…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic 2016 MLA Election : Book History, Print Cultures and Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGreetings. I am on the ballot for the forum executive committee for Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I write to ask you for your support of my candidacy.
I am keen to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. I would solicit and welcome input from members as to…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear this summer in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoRichard Strier will be leading an NEH Seminar for College Teachers on King Lear this summer (July 10-28) at the University of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track instructors are invited to apply (but no graduate students).
For details about eligibility, stipend, the syllabus, etc., please go…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Nineteenth-century railway novels: the crowd-pleasing covers in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/
Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.<script src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” async=”” charset=”utf-8″></script>
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Eleanor F. Shevlin started the topic 2016 MLA election: Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
I am a candidate to represent the Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography, and I am writing to ask you for your support and to let you know something about me and my qualifications.
An 18th-century scholar of British literature and culture, I have nonetheless worked widely in the field of book history a…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting, NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissanc in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more] -
Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited "It is the east": Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoShakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling International Conference University of Toronto, C in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
International Conference
University of Toronto, Canada
May 24–26, 2017
How can one begin to apprehend that which is not of the order of representation, that which cannot be communicated in any way whatsoever, and that which cannot be rendered immanent through literature, cinema, painting, or by a…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.”
Margaret Mike…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” Have a look at t…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story inspired by Shakespeare: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am notifying The Shakespeare group that I have deposited to the Shakespeare CORE a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange.
This is a Romeo and Juliet story unlike any you have read.
You may also be intrigued–I hope–over the line from the song Ariel in _The Tempest_ sings. What does this have to do with an oil refinery town and some…[Read more]
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