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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Lucinda Newns started the topic Deadline Tomorrow: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention on Globalisation in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Studies Association Convention
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London
18–20 September 2017Special Topic: Globalisation
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Aamir Mufti (University of California, LA), Prof. Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford), Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)
A reminder that the…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Visualizing Justice" (Literature & Law Conference; Oct. 27-28, 2017) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference – Visualizing Justice
Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Dale Barleben – dbarleben@jjay.cuny.edu
When: Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Where: John Jay College (CUNY) – (located on the upper-west side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)This conference brings…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear all,
The Law and the Humanities Forum will be sponsoring two panels at next year’s MLA convention in New York City (January 4-7, 2018). We hope that you will consider submitting proposals for the following panels:
Law, Literature, and Emotion
How do imaginative texts explore intersections between law and emotion? Crimes of passion,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Murphy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES The Handmaid’s Tale in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature
What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative persuasion.…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Martin J. Ponce started the topic CFPs: MLA 2018, Race and Ethnicity Forum in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCarceral States of Exception and Insecurity
Critical, theoretical, cultural engagements with the prison, detention, punishment, and their representations. National, international, and/or comparative contexts. Brief CV & 300-word abstract by 13 March 2017; Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu).<hr />
Interdisciplinary Palestine
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Laurie Rodrigues started the topic CFP MLA '18: Literary Studies in the Post-Truth Age in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCall for papers, Special Session to be proposed for the MLA’s 2018 Annual Convention. This session invites papers concerned with the stakes and importance of literary study in an era of misinformation and American cultural uncertainty. Areas of inquiry for discussion may include, but are not limited to:
– New (and/ or necessary) approaches to l…[Read more]
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John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP for non-guaranteed collaborative session MLA 2018 in the discussion
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic CFP for non-guaranteed collaborative session in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoOrganization:
Age Studies, The Teaching of Literature collaborationTitle of session:
Approaches to Teaching Age in LiteratureSubmission requirements:
300-word abstract, brief CVDeadline for submissions:
10 March 2017Description:
How and why do/should faculty incorporate age and/or aging into l…[Read more] - Load More
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