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Alexa Huang deposited “Boomerang Shakespeare: ‘Foreign’ Performances in Britain.” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoShakespeare has become a boomerang business in the twenty-first century—a phenomenon that is fueled simultaneously by globalized local economic and cultural developments. His plays have been traveling the world since his lifetime and now returned to Britain with many different hats, making the familiar strange and bringing home the exotic. U.K. t…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Touring Shakespeares, Agency, and Efficacy in Theatre Historiography in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTouring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year of 2012 was a year of global festivities in which Shakespeare’s works played a major part. Through their exemplary power, the intersections of world cultures and Shakespeare provide a set of important issues for repositioning theatre studies in the w…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited El dantisme de Manuel de Montoliu in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn the year 1903 Manuel de Montoliu published the first Catalan version, in prose and poetry, of “La Vida Nova”, which meant an important stage within the history of pre-Raphaelitism and modernism in Catalonia. In this article the first Dantesque influences in the poetic production of the translator will be detected, the stage of preparation and…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited El dantisme de Manuel de Montoliu in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn the year 1903 Manuel de Montoliu published the first Catalan version, in prose and poetry, of “La Vida Nova”, which meant an important stage within the history of pre-Raphaelitism and modernism in Catalonia. In this article the first Dantesque influences in the poetic production of the translator will be detected, the stage of preparation and…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016. Send abstracts/panels to Edgar Illas eillas@indiana.edu -
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LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and/or…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Anton Pujol replied to the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoArt, Non-Art, Post-Media, Installation: Catalan Museums Today
The role and function of the Museum when art and non-art, exhibit and installation, media and post-media blur in an amalgam of options on-page abstract by 15 March 2016; Teresa M. Vilarós (vilaros@tamu.edu). -
Danny Barreto started the topic CFPs: Galician Studies–Philly 2017 Convention in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago1) The Standardization of Galician: A Response to Language Contact and Change
Forum: LLC Galician
Inc. contemporary history/prospects for a Galician oral/standard variety; language standardization as a tool for language maintenance and revival. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Obdulia Castro (ocastro@regis.edu).2) Round table: What is…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu). -
Paula A. Sprague replied to the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAmended announcement posting:
THE NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY (NACS) PRIZE
For outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Article of Interest? in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThank you, @99522ps! We definitely encourage all our members to explore the materials in CORE and upload their own syllabi, course materials, and research so that others might benefit from it too.
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Paula A. Sprague started the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoFor outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or research institute in North America.
2) All studies published between the 1st of…[Read more]
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Anton Pujol started the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCatalan Cinema and New Media
Papers should examine Catalan cinema and new media with a focus on the global, intercultural and transnational aspects of Catalan society. Send 300 word abstract to Anton Pujol at apujol@uncc.edu by March 15th.
2017 MLA (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
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Amanda Sharick started the topic CFP deadline for "Venice Ghetto at 500" extended– in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoDeadline for the “The Venice Ghetto and the future of memory in a digital age” conference proposals has been extended: https://liminalspacesandthejewishimagination.wordpress.com
Details: The conference will convene in Venice, Italy on June 28th, 2016. Approximately twelve early career scholars will be selected. Participants will be expected to at…[Read more]
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