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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Quick start guide for indexing in the new MLAIB Production Platform in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoOur quick-start guide for indexing in the new MLAIB Production Platform is attached to this post. Ultimately, this guide will be an appendix to the full Indexing Manual which is currently being edited and should be available to you in the next month or so. At that point, there will be page references added to this guide, so you can refer to the…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoTable of contents.
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic MLA Field Bibliographer Newsletter. November, 2019. Volume 16, Issue 4 in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA Message from Mary Onorato
A Message from Greg Grazevich
MLA Convention
Indexing Tips
Training Webinars for Indexing in the New MLAIB Production Platform
Field Bibliographer Retirements
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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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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: special issue-Southeast Asian & Australian Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections
We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic New online scheduling system for individual training sessions in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoExciting news! We now have an online booking system for scheduling your MLAIB individual training session(s). You will receive a confirmation email from the system once your training session is confirmed with your selected trainer and your Zoom session is set up. Please be aware that if you schedule a session after 5pm on a Friday for the f…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Field Bibliographer Training, Session #4: Indexing. Video and topic outline. in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe link to access the recording of Field Bibliographer Training, Session #4: Indexing is: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/8814115519361631755. This link will bring you to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and email address in order to view the session. You may view the recording as many times as you…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCall for PapersBeat Generation and Counterculture PanelsSouthwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference CenterAlbuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.orgProposal submission deadline: October 31, 2019posals for papers and panels are now being accepted for…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Field Bibliographer Training, Session #3: Thesaurus. Video and topic outline. in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe link to access the recording of Field Bibliographer Training, Session #3: Thesaurus is: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/1840921516386302989. This link will bring you to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and email address in order to view the session. You may view the recording as many times as you…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Field Bibliographer Training, Session #2: Books. Video and topic outline. in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe link to access the recording of Field Bibliographer Training, Session #2: Books is: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/8925038650108520200. This link will bring you to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and email address in order to view the session. You may view the recording as many times as you wish.
Please…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Field Bibliographer Training, Session #1: Journals. Video and topic outline. in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe link to access the recording of Field Bibliographer Training, Session #1: Journals is: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/763589236856215307. This link will bring you to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and email address in order to view the session. You may view the recording as many times as you…[Read more]
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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic Login information and terms of use for the new MLAIB Production Platform in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoLogin information for the new MLAIB Production Platform has now been sent to all Field Bibliographers. You will need to bookmark the login link from this email for access to the system. If the email does not appear in your inbox, please check your spam folder. If you do not receive an email, please email me at: ctidrick@mla.org
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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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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
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century 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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Chriselle Tidrick started the topic MLA Field Bibliographer Newsletter. August, 2019. Volume 16, Issue 3 in the discussion
Field Bibliographers for the MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoA Message from Mary Onorato
A Message from Greg Grazevich
Advisory Committee News
MLA Bibliography Fellowships
Out of the Past and into the Future
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Retirement in Utopia: William Morris’s Senescent Socialism in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay argues that William Morris’s work displaces an implicit youthful bias in theories of utopia and socialism by making senescence a structuring principle of his ideal society. For Morris, capitalist age ideology stratifies the lifespan into zones of youth and old age, usefulness and excess, and he perceived the rising reformist…[Read more]
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Jacob Jewusiak deposited Retirement in Utopia: William Morris’s Senescent Socialism in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay argues that William Morris’s work displaces an implicit youthful bias in theories of utopia and socialism by making senescence a structuring principle of his ideal society. For Morris, capitalist age ideology stratifies the lifespan into zones of youth and old age, usefulness and excess, and he perceived the rising reformist…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
Theory and Modernism on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIntroduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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