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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa replied to the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA chance to revisit Chicago when the weather is much improved!
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Victoria Addis deposited Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoSince his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural imagination as a definitively ‘masculine’ writer. His novels and stories focus on male narrators in difficult or extreme situations involving war, violence, and the natural world, and his critical heritage has focused on these ele…[Read more]
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic Literary Universals Workshop at the University of Connecticut in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP
The University of Connecticut, Storrs24 May 2019
Announcement and Call for Papers
Literary universals include properties and structures ranging, for example, from genre patterns through metaphor and imagery, and from ethical or political themes through formal features of prosody. Technically, literary universals are…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Restless Itineraries in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited Distinguishing the Comic Book Subgenre of Cancer Narratives in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn overview of proposed categories for the growing graphic medicine genre of cancer comics (i.e. cancer narratives in comic book form) and an initial theory on the significant linkage between this illness and particular medium.
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Laurie Ringer deposited “With Teeth:” Beyond Theoretical Violence in Gothic Studies in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article collides St. Apollonia’s medieval passion narratives – manuscript illustrations, church screens, and paintings by Francisco De Zurbarán and Carlo Dolci – with A.L. Kennedy’s contemporary short story “Story of My Life” to find out what happens when we move beyond the theoretical violence imposed by traditional approaches to gothic studies.
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic Readings Journal is looking for a new editor-in-chief in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDear all,
years ago, I started a double-blind peer-reviewed open-access venue. A lot of great people are on board (see “board members”), and I still love the idea of a litcrit journal actual people would read, but http://www.readingsjournal.net hasn’t (yet) achieved the wide circulation I had hoped for. In the meanwhile, I left the academia in favour of…[Read more]
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Kim Knight deposited Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Interfaces in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn examination of the cyborg potential of wearable technology as located in dress-body-technology assemblages and a call for public humanities work, such as Fashioning Circuits, that extends the Quantified Self to think instead about the Quantified Other or the Quantified Self-in-kinship.
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