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Misty G. Anderson started the topic Religion in American Public Discourse in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCompetitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Donald Trump has recently declared the U.…[Read more]
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“Situating Lyric” Conference website (with updated CFP): http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric
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William Waters started the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“SITUATING LYRIC”
First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric
To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)
The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic UPDATE: Call for papers: American documentary poetics in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years agoCFP: American Documentary Poetics
American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos and i…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" – MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years agoNYC 2018 – Special Session Call for Papers: ETHICS & KNOWLEDGE
Bringing PLATO, CHRIST and Kafka together (Know Thyself; I AM; I am not (yet)) –
An unusual mix of Philosophy, Religion & Literature that hopes to bring light upon the most important matters:
Freedom & Necessity; Josef K. and Christ the JUDGE being man’s Higher Self as indicated in Ka…[Read more] -
Anne E. B. Coldiron replied to the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPlease excuse that; I’ve just now been made aware of your post and of the problem.
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/account/signup/?next=/spenseronline/welcome/
Will that work better? Thanks for your interest, and sorry I only this minute received word of the problem.
AEBC
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" – MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPlease review the file KAFKA TRANSFORMED (uploaded by yours truly into this Group) & join in the deeper discussion of Kafka’s JOSEF K.! as a Symbol of the human tragedy of the 21st century. Perhaps there will be sufficient interest in the esoteric side of Kafka (himself deeply interested in mystical matters, e.g. his meeting with R.…[Read more]
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E. Jane Hedley replied to the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI have had no luck using the link provided above to book for this year’s Spenser Society luncheon. Please advise.
Jane Hedley
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic American Documentary Poetics CFP in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos a…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 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
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 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
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 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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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Fall 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s representative in the Delegate Assembly 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 nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). Aula lírica is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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