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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited “Structures of Irony: Curiosity and Fetishism in Late Imperial London” in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay argues that curiosity can work as irony’s shadow dialectic in modernist responses to imperialism and metropolitan culture, and suggests that curiosity deserves further exploration as a modernist device. Attentive to the settings and visual metaphors of space and structure that abet irony’s role, this essay finds that curiosity’s…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 372: Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Americas and the British Empire in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years ago372 [HUM] 19th Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas. 3 credit hours. Literary and cultural texts in English from 1800 to 1900 focusing on global British literature and literatures of the Americas.
My investment in the course.
I am concerned about our country’s inability to work against climate change, the mass i…[Read more] -
Pamela K. Gilbert replied to the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoThanks for your thoughts on the panel session, “Victorian in a Comparative Field.” Newspaper and Periodicals Studies is of course a very well established area in Victorian Studies. One thinks of the groundbreaking work of Laurel Brake, Eileen Curran, Andrew King, and Graham Law, to name just a very few of the strong scholars who have founded and…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris started the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years agoNote: I’m going to post this across a few of the groups in which I participate, including Book History and Romantic/19th Century
I just attended the above session organized by this group. While the room was packed and the panel was stacked with a variety of venerable scholars doing interesting work, the panel completely ignored an important area…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of Southern Ca…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York;
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New Yo…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS Prose Fiction panels at MLA 2017, Philadelphia in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2017 GS Prose Fiction panels in Philadelphia</p>
49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
<div id=”conv_program_details”>Presiding:<i> </i>Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park
1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present T…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago“How do I start a short story”? Edit
What method work best for you to start a short story? I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s “vomit in the morning, clean up in the afternoon” method. (Author of _Fahrenheit 451_, _The Martian Chronicles_, _The Illustrated Man_, etc.) Just allow your unconscious t…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2018 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2018, email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the other committee members before MLA. I will collate all suggestions and bring them forward to the committee at our meeting.
All best,
Jonathan
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Speculative Modernism in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAn article relating modernism to financial speculation.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited "Ersticken im Stofflichen": Characters as Collectives in Alfred Döblin's Wallenstein and his Theoretical Writings in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn foregrounding the epochal figures of Albrecht von Wallenstein and the Emperor Ferdinand, Alfred Döblin’s historical novel Wallenstein (1920) would seem to confound the genre’s habitual focus on average, typical figures. The catastrophic power struggle that results from the irreconcilability of the protagonists of Wallenstein is a far cry from…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEntry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.
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Lila Marz Harper started the topic CFP: George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21st Century–Book Collection in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers
George Eliot: New Criticism for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for this volume, a collection of critical essays.
We are interested in a broad range of new interdisciplinary topics, new theoretical approaches, and innovative insights. A few possibilities might be as follows: Eliot and…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Suggestions
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nom…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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