David Geoffrey Lummus
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Aileen A. Feng started the topic MLA 2020 panels sponsored by LLC Med-Ren Italian in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 6 years agoPlease join us at MLA Seattle for the following panels, sponsored by the LLC Medieval-Renaissance Italian forum exec committee (Aileen A. Feng, chair; Susan Gaylard, secretary; James Coleman; Kristina Olson):
Session 152. Italian Literary Mythologies (1200–1600)
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, 212 (WSCC)
Chair: Aileen A. Feng (U of Ar…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
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Carol Chiodo started the topic The Ferrante Effect in the discussion
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoNYTimes looks the “Ferrante effect” on the contemporary publishing landscape in Italy – lots of wonderful titles (some also available in English translation) available for a syllabus of women writers in Italian, including a personal favorite, Igiaba Scego.
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Sabrina Ferri deposited “Unfolded History: Vico’s Method of ‘Explication’ as an Alternative to Enlightenment Rationalism” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Giambattista Vico’s answer to the constraints of extreme enlightened rationalism lies in the epistemological method of “explication,” or “spiegazione,” as he calls it in the New Science. Explication connects “inventively” the different logoi of human eras enabling us to understand the past comprehensively, but it also extends a bridge between t…[Read more]
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Sabrina Ferri deposited “Uneasy Sensibility: Pietro Verri on Pleasure and Pain” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
In this essay, I read Pietro Verri’s “Discorso sull’indole del piacere e del dolore” (1781) in the context of eighteenth-century theories of the mind and by placing it in dialogue with Verri’s accounts of his experiences in his autobiographical writings and letters. I aim to demonstrate how Verri, working within Enlightenment epistemological categ…[Read more]
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Sabrina Ferri's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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Aileen A. Feng's profile was updated on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
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Aileen Feng started the topic CFP: RSA 2020 (Philadelphia) panels sponsored by Dante Society of America in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoDear Med-Ren Italian colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that the Dante Society of America will be sponsoring 4 panels at the upcoming Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Philadelphia, 2-4 April 2020 (https://www.rsa.org/page/2020Philadelphia):
- “Dante and Measurement”
- “Echoes of Dante in Boccaccio”
- “Dan…
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
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Carol Chiodo started the topic New resource at the Library of Congress in the discussion
Women in Italian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoGreat new aquisition @librarycongress: nearly complete run of the Italian women’s periodical, “La Cordelia: Foglio settimanale per le Giovinette Italiane” from first issue in November 1881 through 1928, and 1933 through 1935. #womeninItalian
https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2019/03/alternative-public-forums-for-italian-women-authors…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo's profile was updated on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Eric Weiskott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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