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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Hania Nashef deposited Baal and Thoth: Unwelcome Apparitions in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Disgrace in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his seminar, Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida discusses how one of the essential qualities of the specter is his ability to appear incessantly. The inability to know when the specter may appear, however, not only enforces its haunting quality but also conveys a despairing sense of what Derrida refers to as empty Messianism from which emits…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Taking Liberties: Academic Freedom and the Humanities in the group
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe state of academic freedom today, the particular vulnerability of certain areas of study, and the special relevance of scholarship in the humanities to defenses of academic freedom.
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Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and Anston Bosman (abosman@amherst.edu). -
Kristen Abbott Bennett started the topic Using online Shakespeare Sources in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies”). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]
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Kristen Abbott Bennett started the topic Using online Shakespeare Sources in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]
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Lauren J. Lacey started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe cfp for our guaranteed MLA session is now available on the MLA website:
Theory Now
Where is theory in relation to posthumanism or the post-humanities, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, the neural turn and other recent developments? 500 word abstracts by 8 March 2015; Lauren Lacey (llacey@edgewood.edu) and Tilottama Rajan (<…[Read more] -
Michael Subialka started the topic Call for Contributions Shakespeare in Italy in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Rethinking Shakespeare and Italy: Cultural Exchanges from the Early Modern Period to the Present, ed. by Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis (Routledge: Studies in Shakespeare Series)This volume brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, drama, and linguistics, as well as actors…[Read more]
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Patricia Comitini started the topic Call for Papers: Imaginary Relations in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoInviting Submissions to a new ejournal: Imaginary Relations: a Journal for the Ideological Critique of Aesthetic Objects (IR)
http://www.imaginaryrelations.netImaginary Relations is an experimental ejournal dedicated to ideological critique and analysis of aesthetic objects: poetry, fiction, drama, film and television. The journal seeks to examine the…[Read more]
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Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz started the topic Pre-Shax drama aka Tudor Drama in the forum
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoThe Robt Greene topic reminds me. Renn. scholars in the U.S. should be aware of work in Britain which has changed/supplemented knowledge of earlier drama. Greg Walker’s work is a good key to the whole and and his history re-names the “morality” play as part of Tudor Drama in his book of that name, his anthology, and bibliography. Rece…[Read more]
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Sabina Amanbayeva replied to the topic Recent Scholarship regarding Robert Greene in the forum
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoI am also working on Robert Greene and pamphlet authorship, and I have much benefited from these helpful suggestions. Thank you!
I would second suggestions about Katharine Wilson’s book “Fictions of Authorship”; the collection, Rogues and Early Modern Culture (thank you, Dr. Steve Mentz!); Alexandra Halasz’s study on the role of print; Brian…[Read more]
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Steven Roger Mentz replied to the topic Recent Scholarship regarding Robert Greene in the forum
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoKristen beat me to suggesting the Melinkoff/Gieskes volume, which is really the place to start, especially their excellent “Recent Studies” chapter. Many of the contributors to that volume also have larger projects that consider Greene, including me, Lori Newcomb, Rob Maslen, and Katharine Wilson. Kristen is right also about the University Wits…[Read more]
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Kristen Abbott Bennett replied to the topic Recent Scholarship regarding Robert Greene in the forum
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoI’m sure you’d find it helpful to check out Kirk Melnikoff and Ed Gieskes’ collaboration, *Writing Robert Greene* ( http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754657019). Robert Logan’s *University Wits* series is also a must-see. Each edition collates important articles relating to each of the wits (Greene, Nashe, Marlowe, Lyly, Lodge, and Peele) – it’s al…[Read more]
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Scott Koski started the topic Recent Scholarship regarding Robert Greene in the forum
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoHello All,
I’m starting a project looking into the theater scene of London pre-1592, using Robert Greene and his “Conny Catching” pamphlets as my entry point. My hope is to gain a better understanding of the social environment at that time through the different contributors of the “pamphlet wars”, of which Greene seems to be at the center. The…[Read more]
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Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends and developments on the subject such as the inclusion of…[Read more] -
Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Aphra Behn Society will be hosting two sessions at ASECS in 2015. Abstracts due to session organizers by September 1, 2014.
SESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of…[Read more]
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Wendy Galgan started the topic CFP NeMLA 2015: Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSubmission Deadline: September 30, 2014
This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Re-Imagining Theory Conference, Goa, Dec 2014 in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoXVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
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The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences21-24…[Read more]
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John Harlan Underhill replied to the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI personally love the idea of Shakespeare and Galileo. Your intuition seems exactly right to see a parallel in the cultural (mental) achievement of the two. For both, the essence was personal observation rather than illustration of pious dogma, such as we think of when we think of medieval thought. But Shakespeare confined himself to the s…[Read more]
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