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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Special Issue of The Space Between: CINEMA (12/31/19) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSpecial Issue
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945
Call for Essays:
Cinema in the Space Between: An International Approach
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 is the annual peer-reviewed digital journal of the Space Between Society, focused on interdisciplinary scholarship of the two world wars and the dec…[Read more]
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andré carrington posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis may only be the case for a short while, but my article “Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther,” is currently the most read article in American Literature. It’s part of this wonderful special issue edited by Ramzi Fawaz and Darieck Scott. Free to read https:/…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Who Wooed Desdemona? The Crux at Othello III, iii, 94 in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis textual crux all modern editors unanimously and silently emend, from the Folio “he”, their copy text, to the Quarto “you.” Although they find F so nonsensical as to deserve no comment, Shakespeare, his company, and his audience found it not only sensible in a play involving jealousy, but also powerful. The difference between then and now…[Read more]
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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (Northwestern UP, 2018) in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoUniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century — with chapters on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare Theatre Company’ s Macbeth and the Limits of Multiculturalism.” Early Modern Culture 13 (2018): 240-246 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe STC Macbeth’s setting and predominantly multiethnic cast brought to mind Orson Welles’s landmark 1936 Macbeth which was set in Haiti and featured an all-black cast. In both cases, the ethnicity and race of the cast matched that of the characters and cultures in the adaptation’s respective universe. Tommy’s production engaged in two models…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Is a key to culture in the distance from “dirt”? in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis Blog covers a new approach to culture via literary analysis. The hypothesis is that distance from dirt is a key aspect of culture that cuts across ideologies. To begin this work, we will use Big Data to study (content analysis) themes and characters in US novels from the 19th C. to the 21st C. Theory for this analysis will be Joel Kovel’s…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Digital contemporary history: sources, tools, methods, issues in the group
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical research on the recent past, when compared to earlier periods of history. It explores why this might be the case, focussing in particular on both the obstacles and some missing drivers to mass digitisation of primary sources for the 20th century. It suggests…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Call for Research collaborators: Materials Science lens for Literary Analysis in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoMLA Colleagues,
Let me know here if you have large data mining skills and/or interested.
Consider joining the Rust Belt Literature discussion group at the Modern Languages Association Online web page. I also discuss these issue there and sometimes post different files than at ResearchGate.This is a call for people who may be interested in “data…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Ces traîtres qui affament notre peuple. Argent et antisémitisme dans la « Recherche » proustienne in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Jewish ‘question’ is treated in the Recherche by way of the Dreyfus Affaire, which is not spoken of but scattered in the discourses of different characters. Definitions, opinions, even facts are, therefore, spread in the ubiquity of social instability, so that it is impossible for the reader to identify any of Proust’s ideologies.In our paper…[Read more]
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini deposited Interfacing Cultural Rhetorics: A History and a Call in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay responds to recent exigencies that ask scholars to honor histories of cultural rhetorics, engage in responsible and responsive cultural rhetorics conversations, and generate productive openings for future inquiry and practice. First, the authors open by paying homage to scholarship and programs that have made cultural rhetorics a…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review – Reverent Irreverence in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoBoth in terms of its content and its methodology, Pious Irreverence is a pioneering work. Weiss artfully employs all the tools of textual analysis developed over the last four decades of rabbinic scholarship and brings them to bear on TY, a largely neglected corpus. Tanhuma-Yelammedenu has never been studied as a work of theology, nor from a…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Antiquarianism as Genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano’s Method,” History & Theory 53(2): 212-233. in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis essay uses Arnaldo Momigliano’s genealogy of antiquarianism and historiography to propose a new method for engaging the past. The Italian historian Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) traced antiquarianism from its advent in ancient Greece and later growth in Rome to its early modern efflorescence, its usurpation by history, and its transformation…[Read more]
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Greta Franzini deposited Attributing Authorship in the Noisy Digitized Correspondence of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis article presents the results of a multidisciplinary project aimed at better understanding the impact of different digitization strategies in computational text analysis. More specifically, it describes an effort to automatically discern the authorship of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in a body of uncorrected correspondence processed by HTR…[Read more]
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Armando Maggi posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoWalter Benjamin’s influence on Pier Paolo Pasolini is the topic of next issue of the peer-reviewed journal “Studi Pasoliniani”, a journal that publishes essays in English, Italian, French. Interested colleagues could contact me.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Call for submissions: JITP special issue on teaching & research with archives in the discussion
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis CFS for a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy might be of interest to this group:
As an open-access journal comprised of educators, scholars, and librarians deeply committed to studying how knowledge is produced, preserved, and circulated, the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is thrilled to a…
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis New Rheto rical Continuum Chart for Fiction shows a spectral range between individual (New Critical, structuralist, formalist) approach to group-based (socio-rhetorical) approach to fiction in the 21st Century.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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