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Donald Haase deposited Coleridge and Henry Boyd’s Translation of Dante’s “Inferno”: Toward a Demonic Interpretation of “Kubla Khan” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoDrawing on Henry Boyd’s 1785 translation of the “Inferno,” this note documents the nature and extent of Coleridge’s knowledge of the “Inferno” and demonstrates that Dante’s work probably did influence Coleridge during the composition of “Kubla Khan.”
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.htmlThe late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have…[Read more]
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Donald Paul Haase deposited The Sleeping Script: Memory and Forgetting in Grimms’ Romantic Fairy Tale (KHM 50) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe Grimms’ tale of “Brier Rose” (KHM 50) has self-reflexive characteristics of the Romantic literary fairy tale. In thematizing memory and alluding to the imagery used in the preface to the Grimm brothers’ collection of fairy tales, Wilhelm Grimm’s version of the story self-consciously reflects on its own origins and exhibits a self-awareness…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.
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Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 Call for Papers: please circulate to Spanish media/film/visual/cultural studies lists and urge your students and colleagues to submit abstracts!
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>Pre-cinema…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature
What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative…[Read more]
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Gaura Shankar Narayan started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Special Session: "South-Asia in/and Romanticism" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear All,
The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the deadline of 1 March 2017 for submitting abstracts. Please let us know if you have any…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic “Das Sklavenschiff”: Race, Empire, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
North American Heine Society
German Studies Association
Atlanta, October 5-8, 2017
“Das Sklavenschiff”: Race, Empire, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Heine’s 1854 poem “Das Sklavenschiff” mobilizes mourning and Romantic literary form for both ethical protest against racism and oppression as well as for a critique…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP MLA 2018– Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Maria Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles deposited Heroísmo y conciencia racial en la poeta afro-cubana Cristina Ayala in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the poetry of Cuban writer Cristina Ayala emphasizing the political value of her use of a rhetoric of heroism, a discursive device that masks her demands for recognition of women’s rights and those of Afro-Cubans. The analysis of her poetry suggests that the symbolic manipulation of the “hero” and the representation of “colo…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited LiminAnimal: The Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern societies. Key moments in Bram Sto- ker’s Dracula and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde provide evidence for the animality of late Victorian gothic monsters. In an extended reading of Ric…[Read more]
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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