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Michelle M. Hamilton deposited Retelling the Future: Don Juan Manuel’s “Exenplo XI” and the Power of Fiction in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn this paper I look at how “Exenplo XI” is both product and reflection of the various traditions and cultures of medieval Iberia and how Juan Manuel forges a new version of this story from these inherited traditions in order to showcase problems of concern to his fourteenth-century audience, namely, the tension between ecclesiastical and And…[Read more]
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Michelle M. Hamilton deposited The Sephardic Past in the Digital Future in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis study imagines a Sephardic archive not as a physical site that houses the artifacts, texts, and history of a nation-state or Empire, but one that allows us to access those objects (or exposes their absence) and to bring artifacts from different official archives into dialogue in a different, virtual space, thus creating an additional, but not…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic features of Afro-Romanic and, if yes, which ones? Which data are consistent with the presence…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic features of Afro-Romanic and, if yes, which ones? Which data are consistent with the presence…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic features of Afro-Romanic and, if yes, which ones? Which data are consistent with the presence…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited List of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoList of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAs an NYC local, I’d like to recommend the following around the convention area (if you’re looking for recommendations beyond a mile radius of the convention, particularly in Brooklyn, send me a message here @terrainsvagues):
BAR: Valhalla NYC, for a really good selection of craft beers. It’s a 10-minute walk west from the Sheraton along 53rd…[Read more]
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Thomas GOODMANN posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI am very glad to be asked to stand as a candidate for the executive committee of this forum. A faculty member in English at the University of Miami, I am the editor of Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman (forthcoming from MLA Publications) and am co-hosting with Heather Blatt of Florida International University the 2019 meeting of t…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited List of Variants and Occurrences for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoList of Variants and Occurrences for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).
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Laurie Ringer deposited List of Variants and Occurrences for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoList of Variants and Occurrences for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).
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Megan Peiser posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, All,
I wanted to introduce myself, as you’ll see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall. I encourage you to wander over to my profile and check out more details there, or follow me on Twitter at @MeganPeiser.I am a digital bibliographer and book historian focused on eighteenth-century literature,…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Headword List for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHeadword List for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] - Load More