Gregory F. Tague
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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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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Nineteenth-century railway novels: the crowd-pleasing covers in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/
Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.<script src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” async=”” charset=”utf-8″></script>
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan deposited Let's Get Real: The Victorian Novel in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an advanced graduate course on realism and the Victorian novel taught at Temple University in Fall 2015.
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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Andrea Kaston Tange replied to the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIt is great to know you are running, Pamela! Thank you.
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Pamela K. Gilbert started the topic Executive committee candidacy in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am not quite sure what the protocol is for these statements now that we are on a blog format, but here goes. I am Pamela K. Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida, and I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the division, representing our interests to the MLA. You can all google if you are interested in s…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News? in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoMembers of the Literature and Science Forum:
Hello!
In October, the Commons Wire will return with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a new position, or received a promotion, please let us know by e-mail or by private message (to @terrainvagues) by Septemb…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions—and Syllabus Exchange in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello all,
This forum has almost 750 members, so I would like to invite you all to introduce yourselves! And if it is not too painful to think about the fall semester yet, I’d encourage you to use the group as a locus of information exchange and syllabus brainstorming. If you’d like to share your syllabus while retaining copyright, you can…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: HIV/AIDS: A Contemporary Comparison of Culture, People and Survival in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history. The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging. The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself. There is no cure for it. There is no vaccine. In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]
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