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A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoA brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoEnglish 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDiscussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discu…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Reimagining the Dutch Golden Age (MLA2020, Seattle, WA) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, MLA 2020, JANUARY 9-12, 2020 (SEATTLE, WA)
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of work on the literary culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Renewed attention to major figures such as Vondel, Huygens, and Bredero alongside lesser known writers, both in Dutch and Neo-Latin, continues to uncover the intricate ways in…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited “Mi Casa, Su Casa” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” as if it were experienced by many viewers of a particular type — SCM’s: suburban, collegiate young men — as a feeling out of how they might contrive themselves so that their future development would not place them as identifiable as losers by he-men pulp figures they’d learned early represent…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV Studies for all? On Open Access and Publishing in TV and Media Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPersonal perspective on the current state of open access and publishing practices in the fields of Television and Media Studies, and pointers to a variety of scholar-led initiatives and options of where scholars can actually publish open access in their field without the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs).
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Search for a Way of Being in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a clip of “Blade Runner” as if it were an artifice for suggesting means by which we might find meaning, purpose, in our own world. Decker as extension of ourselves, experimenting, failing… but ultimately succeeding, to discover purpose that is palpable to many of us, in a world we find actively seeking to degrade the possibility of it.
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months 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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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months 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 6 years, 11 months 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 6 years, 11 months 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 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months 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 6 years, 11 months 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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