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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic Abstracts – Surveillance in Early Modern Culture in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSunday, Jan. 8 – Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 10, Philadelphia MarriottPresiding: John Slater, U.C. Davis
Abstracts:
“Poetry and Espionage During the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish War” – Jesus- David Jerez-Gomez, C.S. San Bernardino
This paper will explore how the religious and political tensions originating from the conflict between…[Read more]
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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative Rhetoric and the Mind (ACLA 2017) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)
Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysis, and…[Read more] -
Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Col…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
Hugh M. Richmond deposited The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley’s Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare’s plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.
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Hania Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story." in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoIn his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic Iberian Cultures of Translation – a round table – MLA 2017 in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoFriday, Jan. 6, 2017 , Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 3, Philadelphia MarriottPresiding: Leah Middlebrook, Univ. of Oregon
Matters pertinent to culture, translational and translated, in early modern Iberia. Our participants will present prepared remarks, after which we invite vigorous discussion :
Lucia Binotti, UNC Chapel Hill – “Translation,…[Read more]
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Felipe Valencia started the topic New forum delegate at the Delegate Assembly until 2019 in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
My name is Felipe Valencia, and I would like to introduce myself as the new delegate of this forum at the MLA Delegate Assembly starting next convention, in 2017, until the 2019 convention. I urge you to please contact me at felipe.valencia@usu.edu or through MLA Commons if you would like to share your thoughts on any of the…[Read more]
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Lauren Coats started the topic MLA 2017 Travel Writing Forum CFP: "Orientalism" Revisited in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Travel Writing Committee welcomes proposals for the forum’s session at MLA 2017:
“Orientalism” Revisited: Travel Writing & Neo-Orientalism
Forum: GS Travel Writing
Reconsideration of Said’s theoretical framework for understanding aesthetic and political dimensions and implications of travel writing. 250 word abstract and c.v. to Ali Behdad b…[Read more] -
Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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