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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeares in World Markets and Archives: An Introduction to the Special Issue in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoShakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAs an NYC local, I’d like to recommend the following around the convention area (if you’re looking for recommendations beyond a mile radius of the convention, particularly in Brooklyn, send me a message here @terrainsvagues):
BAR: Valhalla NYC, for a really good selection of craft beers. It’s a 10-minute walk west from the Sheraton along 53rd…[Read more]
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Esther Fernandez uploaded the file: “Ni una menos”: Contextualizar la violencia de género del teatro del siglo XVII en la escena española contemporánea to
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI expand on how disempowered women protagonists in the Comedia recover their sense of agency under new contemporary readings. Specifically, since the passing of domestic violence legislation in 2004, a new wave of Comedia adaptations have resorted to the symbolic capital of early modern classics to raise awareness of women’s misrepresentation a…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Early Modern English Historiography: Providentialism versus New History. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoEarly Modern English historiography had a multi-layered bipolar constitution. Providentialism, which had dominated Medieval English thought, maintained that historical events processed according to God’s divine plan. However, with the revival and reinterpretation of Classical texts, a new and quite opposite way of thinking emerged, which was d…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited The ‘Gothic’ in Hamlet: The Role of the Macabre in Creating Cathartic Horror. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoBuilding on Elizabethan dramatic conventions and religious debates about ghosts, Hamlet employs linguistic and dramatic means to chill its audience. Audio-visual means, along with the manner of entrances and exits, are used in order to horrify the audience. These create a fluctuation between belief and disbelief towards the macabre elements in the…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’m interested to hear what people have been reading lately. Today I’m reading Bécquer Seguín’s Spanish Civil Wars in Public Books:
To see Iberia instead of Spain, then, is to take the long view of history. To write an Iberian Civil War novel is to spend less time on the exceptionalness of the war itself than on how that moment places the lo…
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (New York: Palgrave, 2014), ed. Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAt a time when Shakespeare is becoming increasingly globalized and diversified it is urgent more than ever to ask how this appropriated ‘Shakespeare’ constructs ethical value across cultural and other fault lines. Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited History of Scholarship Project (MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoObjective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIf you’re a New York City local, please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.
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Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED!
The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12-14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TXThe NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE for receipt of all submissions (abstracts and graduate student papers) is OCTOBER 1, 2017
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its 2018 Symposium. The conference…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (potentially of interest to those working in theatre)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA…[Read more] - Load More
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