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Mary Gallucci deposited Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice. Courtney Quaintance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 260 pp. $70. in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoI review Quaintance’s study of homosocial culture in Renaissance Venice. I analyze the issues of gender, sexual violence, and humor discussed in the book.
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Mary Gallucci deposited Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice. Courtney Quaintance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 260 pp. $70. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoI review Quaintance’s study of homosocial culture in Renaissance Venice. I analyze the issues of gender, sexual violence, and humor discussed in the book.
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I’s Italian letters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoFactsheet for “Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters” (Palgrave US, 2017)
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Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2019 CFP for Round Table “Humanism, Coloniality, and Imperial Reason" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTraditionally seen as a foundational movement for free inquiry, rationality, individual freedom, and moral development originated in Europe, humanism emerged in a wider geopolitical framework including the Iberian imperial expansion in Africa, America, and Asia. This roundtable examines the coloniality of humanist thought in its trans-Atlantic…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] -
Erin Cowling posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA Special Session on Theatre and Adaptation: In keeping with the 2019 MLA Presidential Theme “Textual Transactions”, this special session for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, Jan 3-6, is looking for papers discussing the transactional nature of adaptations, between author, actor, and audience, from the seventeenth century to today.…[Read more]
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Luna Najera posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2019
The Forum on 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose invites you to submit abstracts on the subject of sexual violence and coercion in the Hispanic Monarchy.
Session title: Early Modern #metoo
Description: Early modern Spanish prose and poetry reveal the operations of patriarchy very clearly; even…[Read more] -
Kent Cartwright deposited Humanist Reading and Interpretation in Early Elizabethan Morality Drama in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThis essay argues that humanist reading practices, methods of analysis, and aesthetics transformed traditional morality drama in the 1560s and 1570s in a way that accounts for the form’s resurgence. The essay looks closely at Ulpian Fulwell’s “Like Will to Like” (1568), William Wager’s “The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art” (1569) and…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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Monica Diaz started the topic CFP MLA 2019 African Transactions Within and Beyond Colonial Brazil in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years agoGuaranteed session of the of Colonial Latin American Forum
What can the study of African/Afro-descendent culture in colonial Brazil teach us about its presence elsewhere? Papers on the African presence in Brazil in isolation, connection, or comparison to other areas of colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract and cv to Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
questions the meaninglessness of bloodshed in the battlefield, a trait which i…[Read more] -
Eric Weiskott deposited English Political Prophecy in the Welsh Marches, 1450-1650 in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoFrom the twelfth century to the seventeenth, political prophecy was prominent among English literary genres no less than in English political life. Derived from Welsh poetic tradition via Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin History of the Kings of Britain, prophecy reached all social classes. Prophetic texts influenced the decisions of kings, shaped p…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)
Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]
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