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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4
- “Shame and the Question of Identity in Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremont Graduate U
- “Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: Land and Labor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoBeyond the Individual #763
Sunday, January 12 2020
1:45pm-3pm
Sheraton — Willow BPresiding: Daniel Hack
- Character Networks and Collectivity Scott Selisker, U of Arizona
- Characterization and Combination Andrea Kelly Henderson, U of California, Irvine
- Mohsin Hamid’s Global Direct Address Benjamin Mangrum, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoFriday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow BSpeakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Violència i Identitat in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi ha concepte que semblen diàfans, però que poden tornar-se ambigus quan hi reflexionem amb atenció, com el de la violència. Si bé actualment aquest terme envaeix el nostre espai i sovint el llegim de manera unívoca, en el moment en què hi aprofundim hem de reconsiderar-ne el significat. Així mateix, la identitat, que ha estat el tema nuclear…[Read more]
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Victoria E. Szabo started the topic MLA 2020 Sessions sponsored by TC Digital Humanities in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoNote: please check the official MLA program for the latest info on the TC DH sessions!
019. Critical Engagements between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities
Thursday, Jan 9, 2020, 12:00 PM–1:15 PM, WSCC – 204
Session Information
Description: Panelists examine what aspects of digital humanities offer a critical lens for modern languages w…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED – CFP Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED
Submit papers to the Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil Symposium (University of Miami). Papers are accepted in Portuguese and English.
For more information and questions,…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Welcome to MLA 2020! in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA message from the director of convention and events.
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Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Writing “Other Spaces”: Katherine Anne Porter’s Yaddo in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDrawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia, this essay argues that modernism was a heterotopic movement, in which the creation of alternative social environments (such as Gertrude Stein’s atelier or the writers’ colony), and the imagination of alternative forms of social life in literature, were mutually informing, and inext…[Read more]
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Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Our Town, the MacDowell Colony, and the Art of Civic Mediation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) has found unusual currency of late. In 2011, the play lent its name to a major funding program launched by the National Endowment for the Arts; in 2017, it appeared in the center of a popular podcast and was revived by a British theater company in the wake of a terrorist attack. These productions recognize what t…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Building Digital Archives as We Fight: ASA 2019 panel abstract in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBuilding Digital Archives as We Fight, a panel sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association, will consider the affordances and challenges of building digital archives, as well as the ethical dimensions of using emerging technologies that affect the process and pace of digital archiving. Drawing on firsthand…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic Candidate Statement for the Executive Committee CLCS Global Anglophone Forum in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I am honored to have been nominated for the MLA Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Anglophone forum. I am currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, working in the fields of British and transnational modernisms, and postcolonial and global Anglophone literatures. My monograph, Nation…[Read more]
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Nicole Rizzuto started the topic Candidacy Statement Executive Committee 20th and 21st C English and Anglophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy interest in serving on the Executive Committee for Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English and Anglophone Literatures stems from my ongoing research within these fields and from my commitment to addressing the changing structure of the profession and its effects on knowledge production and scholarly activity. I take the current ideological…[Read more]
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