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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Haunting Raveloe in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature 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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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Haunting Raveloe in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies 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 Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory 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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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazons’ Swamp: Elizabeth Gaskell braves her terrors for freedom in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoExploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into specifically delineated memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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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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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory 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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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies 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 Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Melinda Robb started the topic CFP: Kristeva Circle Conference: Trajectories of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoCall for Papers
The Kristeva Circle, October 3-5, 2019
Trajectories of Psychoanalysis
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Hosts: Noëlle McAfee and Emory University’s
Psychoanalytic Studies ProgramKeynote Speakers:
Emanuela Bianchi, New York University Department of Comparative Literature
Jill Gentile, New York University Postdoctoral Program in…[Read more] - Load More