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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] -
Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoTraditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Tempestuous Life: Ralegh’s Ocean in Ruins in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoTurning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThough the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Nature’s Queer Negativity: Between Barad and Deleuze in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis essay offers a critique of the vitalist turn in queer and ecological theory, here represented by the work of Karen Barad. Whereas Barad advances an image of life geared towards meaningful connection with others, human and nonhuman, Deleuze advances an a-signifying ontology of self-dismissal. The point of this essay isn’t to separate their t…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Jay Rajiva deposited “Secrecy, Sacrifice, and God on the Island: Christianity and Colonialism in Coetzee’s Foe and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay argues that the tension in Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe springs from the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death, which outlines how Christianity tacitly incorporates (but doe…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS SOUND Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Panels at MLA 2020 in Seattle!!! in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 6 years agoMS Sound will be in full force at the MLA convention this week in Seattle! Check out these three great panels that the MS Sound Executive Forum is sponsoring and co-sponsoring this year. Sound studies is making interventions this year on so many levels– these aren’t the kind of panels we usually see and hear at MLA and it’s exciting!
1.…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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