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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Laurie Ringer deposited Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhatever your theory and whatever your fandom, you don’t have to abandon it to do affect theory. This is because affect theory isn’t about telling you which side to pick in an agonistic contest; it’s about finding out what a body can do as it moves with other bodies in entangled states, whether or not we notice them. Affect theory offers more…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAssembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 1: Disassembled in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoFiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCourse syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCourse syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2019 in Chicago (Jan 3-6)
Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
Digital archives, mapping projects, sound projects, aesthetic digital interventions before/after María, oceanic perspectives, disaster capitalism in the insular and continental Caribbean. Please send 250-words abstract by 20 March 2018 to Lena…[Read more] -
Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Kevin Brock deposited The ‘FizzBuzz’ Programming Test: A Case-Based Exploration of Rhetorical Style in Code in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoEvery code text is informed by stylistic decisions that impact how the text is interpreted and understood. While software developers have long discussed concerns of style in regards to writing code, scholars of computation would benefit from a rhetorical approach to style, an approach that links style to substance and sees style as situated and…[Read more]
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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoEstablishing a meaningful digital identity is essential to managing one’s scholarly and professional reputation. This workshop addresses ways to cultivate an online identity and offers guidance on “going public” using tools and strategies for building a community around your work. Topics include social media, writing for different audiences, perso…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Response to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]
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