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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
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Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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Marissa Nicosia started the topic 742. Returning to the History Play: Time, Affect, Memory in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI’m excited for MLA Philly for a lot of reasons: friends are coming to town, I’m giving a paper on prophecy from my book manuscript, and I’m convening a roundtable connected to my research that’s part of the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions. If you’re attending the conference, check out the proposal and full-length abstracts below a…[Read more]
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Helen Slavin uploaded the file: Field Bibliographer Newsletter. 2006 November. Vol. 3, Iss. 4 to
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoMessage from Barbara Chen
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Helen Slavin uploaded the file: Field Bibliographer Newsletter. 2006 August. Vol. 3, Iss. 3 to
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoTips on Indexing
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Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago1926-1962 retrospective file
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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Helen Slavin uploaded the file: Field Bibliographer Newsletter. 2006 February. Vol. 3, Iss. 1 to
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMessage from Barbara Chen
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Helen Slavin uploaded the file: Field Bibliographer Newsletter. 2005 November. Vol. 2, Iss. 4 to
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMessage from Barbara Chen
2005 Bibliography Advisory Committee meeting
Statistics for the 2004 MLA International Bibliography
Tips on Indexing
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Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoNew Instructions for Web Indexers
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures
The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nom…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited "The Black", space, and sexuality: Examining resistance in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that theoretical notions of resistance and agency prove inadequate for considering the complexities of the treatment of Sam Selvon’s Trinidadian characters. Indeed, to proceed from a binary logic of resistance and oppression carries the danger of universalizing those seen as oppressed, and smoothing over important c…[Read more]
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