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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
<div id=”conv_program_details”>Presiding:<i> </i>Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park
1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present T…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago“How do I start a short story”? Edit
What method work best for you to start a short story? I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s “vomit in the morning, clean up in the afternoon” method. (Author of _Fahrenheit 451_, _The Martian Chronicles_, _The Illustrated Man_, etc.) Just allow your unconscious t…[Read more]
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André Carrington deposited Blackness & Utopia in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPilot for a modular course in-person, hybrid, or online format. Texts and other materials available in digital and streaming formats.
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2018 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2018, email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the other committee members before MLA. I will collate all suggestions and bring them forward to the committee at our meeting.
All best,
Jonathan
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Speculative Modernism in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn article relating modernism to financial speculation.
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James Gifford deposited Summoned by Bells in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoUVic Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives hold prized materials in modern literature, ranging from nearly 400 letters by T.S. Eliot to Ezra Pound’s elucidation of his poetry for a German translation. A featured series in the leading journal Modernism/modernity recently discussed the former, with British scholars demonstrating their flu…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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James Gifford deposited Durrell's Delta and Dylan Thomas' "Prologue to an Adventure" in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis article retraces the publication history of Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” and concludes its publication in Delta reflects Thomas’ final intentions and revisions, despite the continued republication of its earlier witness in Wales in Thomas’ collected works.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited "Ersticken im Stofflichen": Characters as Collectives in Alfred Döblin's Wallenstein and his Theoretical Writings in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn foregrounding the epochal figures of Albrecht von Wallenstein and the Emperor Ferdinand, Alfred Döblin’s historical novel Wallenstein (1920) would seem to confound the genre’s habitual focus on average, typical figures. The catastrophic power struggle that results from the irreconcilability of the protagonists of Wallenstein is a far cry from…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic American Documentary Poetics CFP in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos a…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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Carol Zuses started the topic Need Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBeginning in 2017, the nomination process that applies to executive committee elections will also apply to the election of forum delegates. According to this process, the executive committee is required to nominate at least one candidate who has been suggested by the forum’s membership (unless there are too few suggestions). So when the f…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nom…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited "The Black", space, and sexuality: Examining resistance in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that theoretical notions of resistance and agency prove inadequate for considering the complexities of the treatment of Sam Selvon’s Trinidadian characters. Indeed, to proceed from a binary logic of resistance and oppression carries the danger of universalizing those seen as oppressed, and smoothing over important c…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited Modernist Resilience at the End of the World(s) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers for the Panel at the 2017 Biennial ASLE Conference, Detroit, MI
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