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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Everything Change, Volume II, a climate fiction anthology in the discussion
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoYesterday, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II. The anthology features 10 short stories from ASU’s 2018 global climate fiction contest, plus a foreword by renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is free to dow…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d’autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoArchives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Laura L. Runge started the topic Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century in the discussion
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Sunday January 6, 2019: 10:15-11:30 AM, Randolph 2 (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
Session Chair: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida
“Before We Were Normal: Disability and Aesthetics in the Early Eighteenth C…[Read more]
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Steven J. Meyer deposited Re. 2018 election for MLA executive committee of TC Philosophy and Literature Forum [closes Monday Dec 10] in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPhilosophical interests of Steven Meyer, Washington University in St. Louis, candidate for 2018 election
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Marisa Verna deposited Review of Anne Simon, Trafics de Proust. Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Deleuze, Barthes in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoReview of the recent book of Anne Simon, about Proust and / with philosophers
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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