Gerry Canavan
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoFor the session on reading comparative literature, the division is really interested in the ways in which new directions in reading have influenced, affected or perhaps not affected comparative literature. Thanks
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]-
greetings! the texts below may be of interest:
1) Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India, 2013. ISBN 9789382993667. 538 pages, bibliography, index. h…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee replied to the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoYes, I really meant the 2015 MLA…
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoAnd here is that good article in the University of Arizona newspaper with the abysmal photo…
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/01/exhibit-links-sci-fi-and-the-arts
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoSorry about the typo. OBVIOUSLY it is ARIZONA, not Atizona…
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere is more for college instructors planning curriculum…
The library display is called “Mars Madness: Sci-Fi, Popular Culture and Ray Bradbury’s Literary Journey
to Outer Space”and it opens on January 21st-though August. I am guest curating this exhibit for them.We are opening an interdisciplinary display about science fiction writer Ray B…[Read more]
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Gerry Canavan started the topic CFP: SFRA at WisCon in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere’s the CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will convene at the WisCon feminist fan convention in Madison, WI. The deadline is February 1.
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Doris Lessing Memorial in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThe Doris Lessing Society is organizing an event to mark the recent passing of Doris Lessing. It will be held on Saturday, 12 January at 8:45-10:00pm in Chicago G, Chicago Marriott hotel. All are welcome.
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Dennis Renner replied to the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI am writing from Portland, Oregon, hoping that you will be able to post or send attachments to me (dkrenner@gmail.com) from your Arthur Miller session. It is just a little too impractical for me to come to Chicago for your session, although it is of tremendous significance for a comparative project in which I am using Whitman’s thinking about the…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”>Conference Title:</p>
<p align=”center”>Translating Social Movements</p>
<p align=”center”><i>Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014</i></p>
The relationship b…[Read more] -
Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoOther Comics Studies Events @ MLA 2014!
Besides the four events—the three panels and the cash bar—sponsored or co-sponsored by our Discussion Group, MLA 2014 in Chicago will host two other sessions devoted comics or graphic narratives, as well as a number of individual papers that, as far as we are able to tell from the program, connect to the…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoMLA 2014—Announcing Our Sessions!
We of the MLA Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives are proud to announce our sessions for the 129th Annual MLA Convention, to be held 9-12 January 2014 in Chicago. Once more we’ll be doing our full allotment of panels—three, including one in collaboration with the MLA Division on Literature and Other…[Read more]
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]