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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).
* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against a reading of a sacred landscape: Raja Shehadeh rewrites the Palestinian presence in Palestinian Walks in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACT
In his introduction to Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh remarks that in spite of the great number of travelers to Palestine, travel literature, for the most part, willfully ignored the living experience and existence of the land’s inhabitants. Often, Palestine was the imaginary place that was continuously invented to confirm r…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-trau…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Medieval English Poetry and Poetics at MLA 2021 in the discussion
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPlease take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021 that may be of interest to members of this group. Session 660 in particular is jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics.
205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago Speakers: Danielle…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoOften described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Poetics of Baseball: An American Domestication of the Mathematically Sublime in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article appeared in the journal American Studies, 32.1 (Spring 1991): 85-100. The article examines a poetics of the mathematically sublime as it relates to the design and play of the American game of baseball. There is some commentary on literature and cultural sudies as well as the history and rules of baseball. There is no DOI for the…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIt is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]
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Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoNew directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]
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