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“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic 685: "Politics and Poetics of Cognition"-special session at the MLA in Vancouver in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear All,
I very much hope that those of you going to the MLA will consider attending our special session, which will take place on Sunday, January 11 (see below).
Sincerely,
Lisa Zunshine685. Politics and Poetics of Cognition
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 214, VCC West
A special session
Presiding: Lisa Zunshine, Univ. of Kentucky
1. “…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Megan L Harris changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years ago
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months ago
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