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Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoUsing Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: Japan after 1900 info in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOur LLC East Asian Business Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott. (see below)
Please forward this info to your panelists and anyone else I might have missed from the list of officers.
Thanks and see you soon.Monika Dix
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:
48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW MarriottA special session
Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more] -
Katherine Arens started the topic U of Texas at Austin Germanic Studies is having a reception at the MLA in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
The ‘home team’ would be very pleased to see you there!
Finger food provided; cash bar.
Thursday, Janury 7, 2016, 7-10 pm
Austin Ale House (Back room)
301 W. 6th Street (6th and Lavaca)
http://www.theaustinalehouse.com
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic New Japanese Forum created!! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
If you aren’t already a member, head on over to “LLC Japanese since 1900” and join. We are now official! Rosemary Feal informs us:
“I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Council, acting on the recommendation of the Program Committee, has approved the creation of the forum LLC Japanese since 1900.
The first official sessions…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Tia Black deposited Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWorldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors fro…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Japanese Children's Literature at ChLA in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoI’m just reposting this — please do consider applying! Looks like a great opportunity.
Children’s Literature Association
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Call for Papers:
International Committee Focus Panel Session
Deadline: September 15, 201543rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by Th…[Read more] -
Monica Cure started the topic CFP Vulnerable Travelers, ACLA 2016 Harvard, Deadline Sep. 22 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoFor colleagues writing on travel literature, please consider submitting an abstract (200-250 words) for our panel at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference held at Harvard from March 17-20, 2016. Abstracts are due by September 22.
This panel invites scholars to explore vulnerability in travel writing from a range of…[Read more]
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP – Korean Literature Association (KLA) Conference
Global Korean Literature at the Crossroads:
Celebration of Continuity and TransformationDuke University – November 13-14, 2015, Korean literary studies in North America, once a discipline held together by the dedication of a few scholars, is a burgeoning field today. The last few years…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.
30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP and Survey: Korean Texts and Translations in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoTeach Korean literature? Please answer the few questions on this MLA survey (and find out how to submit a proposal for our new Korean Texts & Translations initiative): https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons-staging.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP and Survey: Korean Texts and Translations in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoTeach Korean literature? Please answer the few questions on this MLA survey (and find out how to submit a proposal for our new Korean Texts & Translations initiative): https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons-staging.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFPs for our sponsored panels at MLA 2016 in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for papers: MLA 2016
We invite you to submit paper proposals for any of the following panels, which we are planning for the January 2016 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Austin, TX.A Public Face for East Asian Poetry?
Investigating contemporary poetry’s impact on readerships large and small. Papers could address…[Read more] - Load More
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