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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoABSTRACT
Extensively quoting from the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, a Cold War organization founded as a CIA front in 1950, this chapter provides a history for their Arabic literary activities, including the journals Aṣwāt, Adab, and their best known work in the region: Ḥiwār (1962–67), edited by Palesti…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Sexuality Studies 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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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Sexuality Studies 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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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC Colonial Latin American 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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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies 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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Kendra Leonard deposited “Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago“Excellence in Execution” and “Fitness for Teaching”: Assessments of Women at the Conservatoire Américain
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Seminar proposal ALCESSXXI: Artes discursivas, neoliberalismo y crisis in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoConvocatoria. Queridas/os colegas, estoy preparando un seminario para ALCESXXI en Uviéu / Oviedo del 13 al 15 de julio de 2020. Más abajo agrego información. Interesados escribirme a aribascasasayas@scu.edu. Información sobre la conferencia en http://www.alcesxxi.org/home/ Hay que ser miembro de ALCESXXI para poder participar. Favor de difundir a per…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWacks, David A. “Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull (Review).” La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018, pp. 122–24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cor.2018.0022.
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David A. Wacks deposited Whose Spain is it, anyway? in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Iberian Peninsula during the Latin Middle Ages was home to large populations of Muslims and Jews. During the period we like to call the Middle Ages, much of the Iberian Peninsula was under Muslim rule. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the entire peninsula was under Christian rule, and Judaism and Islam were officially banned.…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas by Emily Colbert Cairns in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoBook review of Emily Colbert Carins, Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 189 pp
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