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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoExplores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]
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Jenna Kober deposited ‘The Individual and the Cultural Environment’ Conceptual Unit Featuring The Awakening in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Individual and the Cultural Environment Conceptual Unit Overarching Enduring Understanding: The relationship between the individual and society Overarching Essential Question: How does society influence the individual?
Unit Objectives: -My students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the motifs and symbols in the unit’s core te…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Study Guide) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWacks, David A. “Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull (Review).” La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018, pp. 122–24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cor.2018.0022.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Unfurling Unflattening (edited collection) in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Chapters—Edited Volume
Unfurling Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical Possibilities
Janine Utell, Widener University, Amanda O. Latz, Ball State University, Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY at New Paltz, Editors
The publication of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015) created an unprecedented stir among schol…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One’s Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoMuch scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One’s Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoMuch scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Friendship and Politics in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe convivencia between the followers of the different religions of the Mediterranean persisted despite the fraught politics of Christianity and Islam. Despite the long arm of the Inquisition the protagonists in the plays of Cervantes and Lope struggle to maintain fraternal ties.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes’ cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite being an army officer Don Fernando is drawn towards the Muslim Princess Arlaxa. He defies army convention to meet her much to the chagrin of fellow Spanish soldiers in the presidio where they are stationed.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Desire and. its Facilitators in Cervantes’ Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis article discusses “politically correct” desire as opposed to the outlaw desire of witches and non Christians. Though the leading couple is shown most favourably yet the portrayal of the Others raises questions in the mind of the reader which is what Cervantes might have intended.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Jenni Rivera y sus corridos: la historia de un desafío in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn analysis of the life and corridos of Jenni Rivera the sole woman narco corridista
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Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar’s Mughal Court in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India
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