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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Some Futures for the Humanities (with maybe a little Shakespeare thrown in) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoI briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]
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James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.
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James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).
The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]
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