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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global So in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoKeynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections (with literature, aesthetics, philosophy, etc.)
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12,…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe deadline for submissions is July 12, 2015.
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]
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Yan Liu replied to the topic CFP: "Greenwood Fashion," SEMA 2015 in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThank you!
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Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic CFP: "Greenwood Fashion" SEMA 2015 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP: Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Conference. October 22-24, 2015, Little Rock, Arkansas
International Association for Robin Hood Studies Sponsored Session:
“Greenwood Fashion: Clothing, Textiles, Skins, and Furs in the Ongoing Robin Hood Legend”
The Robin Hood ballads and other Robin Hood tellings, from the past through the…[Read more]
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Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic CFP: "Greenwood Fashion," SEMA 2015 in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP: Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Conference. October 22-24, 2015, Little Rock, Arkansas
International Association for Robin Hood Studies Sponsored Session:“Greenwood Fashion: Clothing, Textiles, Skins, and Furs in the Ongoing Robin Hood Legend”
The Robin Hood ballads and other Robin Hood tellings, from the past through the…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point in the group
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper questions how Wolfgang’s Schivelbusch’s seminal study of railway networks in 19th-century should lead us to think differently about trains and transportation within steampunk. The paper considers how both the railway and steampunk annihilate space and time; act as transportation networks; and foreground reading practices, or the lack…[Read more]
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John Laudun deposited Gumbo This: The State of a Dish in the group
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoGumbo has become the metaphorical melting pot of Louisiana, often reducing complex histories to simple lists of ingredients. This essay offers a more complex history of the dish itself, as well as refuting some of the common misconceptions about the dish and Louisiana foodways found in popular media.
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Bhakti Shringarpure started the topic Great post by Kenneth Harrow on the African Film Fest in Burkina Fa in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoFor film folks, the premier scholar on African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow, has a dispatch from this years FESPACO in Burkina Faso. There’s short reviews of films that Harrow finds notable and some thoughts on where the festival is as viable and important as in the past. Check out “Has the Magic Gone Out of Africa’s Largest Film Festi…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. October 16 and Sat. October 17, 2015 in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: MCEA Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and Resolutions
Featured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec FosterLocation: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has conflict among different soci…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHeavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing teleologies of transcendence, apocalyptic religious…[Read more] -
Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more] -
David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session – The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:
Bukowski/Chinaski and media other than print (film, television, audio recording, etc.)
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Special Session Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoOrganizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at Au…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: "Mobility and Migrations" in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers, MLA Convention 2016: “Mobility and Migrations: movements of people and capital in 18th and 19th century Spanish worlds”
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