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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
Prospective Forum: TC Animal Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP for MLA 2018 in NYC: SITE SPECIFICS in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoSITE SPECIFICS (a roundtable)
How place matters and insists, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference. Focus upon NYC environs (widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts, environmental justice) or “climate controlled” spaces especially welcome.
150 word abstracts by march 1 2018 to jjcohen@gwu.edu
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This essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World on MLA Commons 9 years ago
This article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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On performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
The animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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On the eventness of sensation fiction
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP: Legal Ecologies (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoFor this roundtable session on “Legal Ecologies,” a collaboration between the MLA Law and Humanities forum and Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities forum, proposals are invited for short, 8-10 minute papers. Participants may consider a wide range questions, including, but not limited to, the following: how does the notion of <i cla…[Read more]
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