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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoPreview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.
Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited “Не взлетевшие самолеты мечты”: о поколении формального метода in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoСтатья является введением к трехтомной антологии русского модернизма.
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Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Deck Lee and the Location of The Professor in Post Soul Literary Plots in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe professor character is no stranger to readers of contemporary African American literature. Indeed, the variety and ubiquity of a professorial character across a range of post soul fictional novels is not simply a curiosity to comment on, but phenomena available for critical interrogation. This analysis explores the location of Deck Lee’s c…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoVery short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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Hanan Elsayed posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWe would like to send a letter of concern to the Editor of The French Review about a recent article in The French Review, “L’islamisme à la conquête de la République française” by S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey. The letter explains how the article is a sub-scholarly exercise in Islamophobic discourse that has no place in an academic journal of any kin…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – University of Miami – MLL Graduate Student Conference 2018 in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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