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Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPeter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.
12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.
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Nicole Grewling started the topic CfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (NeMLA 2017) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoCfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA)
March 23-26, 2017
Baltimore, MD
Submission deadline: Sept.30, 2016
The desire to conquer hostile landscapes and explore unknown places has long constituted an essential aspect of traveling and hence also of co…[Read more] -
Peter C. Pfeiffer started the topic Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education (CUALHE) is a loose confederation of programs and departments engaged and interested in learning outcomes assessment of humanities and languages. We have had a couple of meetings where projects have been presented and certain issues of humanities learning have been highlighted.…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Book review: A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA book review of Jerome McGann’s A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim c…[Read more]
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]
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Charlotte Ann Melin deposited Beyond Enrollment Data: Why Students and Program Evaluation Matter in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoSession #339: paper for AAUSC panel QUO VADIMUS?
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Kafka and ideology of race in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoHi, all,
As someone partly of both German and Czech background, I feel very torn in some ways similarly to the old boy Kafka himself. Rather than ignoring the issue of Czechs and Germans as so many writers are doing, or–worse–siding with one or other, why not take a more interesting question: given that Czech-speakers and German-speakers (and…[Read more]
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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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Saskia Ziolkowski started the topic CFP: "Lessing and World Literature" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoAlthough Lessing’s examinations of literature in contrast to the other arts have been an object of considerable scholarly focus, Lessing is rarely mentioned in the many studies of world literature. Lessing’s absence contrasts with Goethe’s, who is well-known as being one of the earliest (often credited as being the earliest) theorist of world li…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:
Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms
Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHoward Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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