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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Michael Bérubé deposited Why Teach Literature? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoContribution to “Why Teach Literature?” Program arranged by the forum TM The Teaching of Literature. Gaurav G. Desai, Tulane U, presiding.
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Whitney Trettien deposited How We Read (Freshman Year Seminar syllabus) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe attached syllabus was written for my Spring 2017 Freshman Year Seminar course “How We Read.” This was a freshman-only seminar oriented towards introducing how different fields ask questions and solve problems. From the course description: “In this seminar, we explore the histories, sciences, and technologies of reading. Guest lectures and…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Technologies of Literary Production (grad course, taught Spring 2017) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe attached syllabus was written for my Spring 2017 graduate course “Technologies of Literary Production.” From the course description: “This course has two complementary goals. The first is to introduce the history of technologies used to produce and circulate literature, from the parchment upon which Beowulf is written to the social media…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited The Art of the Book in the Digital Age syllabus (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe attached syllabus was written for my Honors undergraduate seminar “The Art of the Book in the Digital Age,” taught Fall 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. Here is an excerpt from the course description: “The book’s role and significance within literary culture is being scrutinized today with an intensity unseen for five centuries. Nowhere is this quest…[Read more]
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Katherine D. Harris started the topic MLA Panel 550. "Victorian" in a Comparative Field — Major Issues in the discussion
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoNote: I’m going to post this across a few of the groups in which I participate, including Book History and Romantic/19th Century
I just attended the above session organized by this group. While the room was packed and the panel was stacked with a variety of venerable scholars doing interesting work, the panel completely ignored an important area…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Join us for MLA 2017 Special Session, "Keep the H in DH" in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join us at on Friday at 1:45 pm for a special session, “Keep the H in DH.” (105B, Pennsylvania Convention Center)
“Keep the H in DH” will address the contributions of humanistic inquiry to the computational tools and methods taken up by digital humanities practitioners. While many humanists acknowledge the ways tha…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Call for Papers: Knowledge & Ethics – 2018 Special Session in NYC: in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoNYC 2018 – Special Session Call for Papers: ETHICS & KNOWLEDGE
Bringing PLATO, CHRIST and Kafka together (Know Thyself; I AM; I am not (yet)) –
An unusual mix of Philosophy, Religion & Literature that hopes to bring light upon the most important matters:
Freedom & Necessity; Josef K. and Christ the JUDGE being man’s Higher Self as indicated in Ka…[Read more] -
Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/index
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Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/index
Issues 15 and 16 (2016) -
Stefania Irene Sini posted an update in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoEnthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Reading and Responding to Literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe invite explorations of pedagogical practices addressing specific language structures in the context of a literary text, thus, uniting literature and English language studies.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Literary and Non-literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe invite abstracts that approach texts from a linguistic perspective in order to explore potential commonalities and differences between literary and non-literary language.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Mark Sample deposited Interactive Digital Narratives Syllabus (Davidson College 2016) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for FMS 321 (Interactive Digital Narratives) at Davidson College, Fall 2016.
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIndeed, Victor—- though naturally most everyone is so caught up in their own affairs and probably only a handfull of people have even bothered with reading my comments (which by the way is expressed most wonderfully by Buergel in Nocturnal Deliberations…). The level of discourse tends to be either limited to small subsets of “specialists” or…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen you quote Sofel’s acknowledgment of “the horror filled underbelly of all that is detestable regarding which hardly anybody is particularly eager to discuss,” it mirrors the detestable act of electing a man to the US Presidency who has engaged in thoroughly criminal, evil, and loathsome behaviors, including marking a “C” for colored folk to…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
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