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Matthew Davis deposited Lydgate at Long Melford: Reassessing the Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in Their Local Context in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe extracodical stanzas of John Lydgate’s Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in the Clopton chantry chapel of the Great Church of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, not only are two intriguing witnesses differing in presentation and language from the manuscript copies but also can be considered as part of a rhetorical program where…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited “Forward,” Backward, or Somewhere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 9 years agoPaper given for the LLC Middle English Forum’s roundtable on “Campus Chaucer. ” See also separately uploaded PowerPoint slides (not strictly necessary; the bold in the text, however, refers to a change of slide). Contains many informational links. Accompanying PowerPoint: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BW3B
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited “Forward,” Backward, or Somewhere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 9 years agoPaper given for the LLC Middle English Forum’s roundtable on “Campus Chaucer. ” See also separately uploaded PowerPoint slides (not strictly necessary; the bold in the text, however, refers to a change of slide). Contains many informational links. Accompanying PowerPoint: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BW3B
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited “Forward,” Backward, or Somewhere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years agoPaper given for the LLC Middle English Forum’s roundtable on “Campus Chaucer. ” See also separately uploaded PowerPoint slides (not strictly necessary; the bold in the text, however, refers to a change of slide). Contains many informational links. Accompanying PowerPoint: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BW3B
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited Powerpoint for “‘Forward,’ Backward, or Somehwere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin” in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 9 years agoPowerPoint to accompany paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GP71) given in #s280 at the 2017 MLA Convention.
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited Powerpoint for “‘Forward,’ Backward, or Somehwere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin” in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 9 years agoPowerPoint to accompany paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GP71) given in #s280 at the 2017 MLA Convention.
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited Powerpoint for “‘Forward,’ Backward, or Somehwere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin” in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years agoPowerPoint to accompany paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GP71) given in #s280 at the 2017 MLA Convention.
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Michael Bérubé deposited Why Teach Literature? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoContribution to “Why Teach Literature?” Program arranged by the forum TM The Teaching of Literature. Gaurav G. Desai, Tulane U, presiding.
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Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/index
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David Wacks deposited Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob Algaba’s Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Joseph Hakohen’s Historia general de las Indias by Francisco L…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Popular Andalusi Literature and Castilian Fiction: Ziyad Ibn ‘Amir Al-Kinani, 101 Nights, and Caballero Zifar in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoZiyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani (Granada, ca. 1250) and the 101 Nights
(Granada, 1234) are two examples of Andalusi popular fiction that provide important
information for our understanding of works of early Castilian fiction such as the Libro del
Caballero Zifar. The two Andalusi works provide evidence of a bilingual culture of
storytelling that n…[Read more] -
David Wacks deposited Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCrónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenthcentury
account of the struggles of the Kings of Asturias (eighth-ninth centuries)
with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the
chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to
promote ideologies of…[Read more] -
David Wacks deposited Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism in the group
CLCS Medieval on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCrónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenthcentury
account of the struggles of the Kings of Asturias (eighth-ninth centuries)
with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the
chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to
promote ideologies of…[Read more] -
David Wacks deposited Vernacular Anxiety and the Semitic Imaginary: Shem Tov Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión and his Critics in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoShem Tov ibn Isaac Ardutiel (Santob de Carrión) lived in the fourteenth century, period of intense vernacularization of literary practice in Castile. Shem Tov has long been imagined as a model of multiculturality, and the lasting impact of his diglossic literary legacy is undeniable. He is a compelling case study of the role of Hebrew literature…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Toward a History of Hispano-Hebrew Literature in its Romance Context in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWacks proposes a new, comprehensive look at the Romance context of the Hebrew Literature of Christian Iberia. He surveys the extant criticism and provides an overview of key texts and their relationship to vernacular literary and cultural practices. Along the way, he provides some explanation for the intellectual and institutional practices that,…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Is Spain's Hebrew Literature 'Spanish'? in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe author surveys Spanish and Hebrew literary criticism to determine to what extent the Hebrew language production of medieval Iberian authors have been reflected or omitted from Spanish literary history and draws some conclusions as to the reasons why or why not.
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David Wacks deposited Reconquest Colonialism and Andalusi Narrative Practice in Don Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe author argues that Juan Manuel’s willingness to embrace Andalusī narrative genres and materials, including a number of proverbs which he quotes in the original Arabic, seems on the surface to run counter to his official
narrative of Reconquest. However, this apparent contradiction is typical both of the colonial society in which Don Juan Ma…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] - Load More
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