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Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear members of LCC Scottish,
We are hoping that you might be able to help us publicize the following news items from the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL).
1. We are offering a free three-year membership for PhD students working on topics in Scottish literatures and languages. This offer is partly a…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIt is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic March 25 deadline for CFPs–Please join us! in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPlease read the three CFPs below and send in an abstract by March 25 to be a part of the following sessions at MLA 2022. We would appreciate your forwarding the CFPs to colleagues as well. Much appreciation for your time and help.
Building Bridges and Breaking Down Walls: The Teaching of World Literature in English
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Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSpecial issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Full-length CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA postscript to my previous post on CFPs for MLA 2022: Here is a more detailed description of “Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages” panel.
In keeping with the MLA 2022 conference theme of Multilingual US, the Executive Committee of the Media Studies Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has announced the following guaranteed session: Foun…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Remote Middle English 2: Present Negotiations with the Past in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSequestered away from our institutions, colleagues, and students, and yet continuing to seek connections with them, many medievalists have no doubt registered the uncanny resemblance between the newly remote experiences of our work and the already pervasive perceptions of that work as remote, both within and without academe. On the one hand, we…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Opera and Musical Performance Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn anticipation of MLA 2022, the MS Opera and Musical Performance forum is pleased to announce two calls for papers, the second of which is in collaboration with the Drama and Performance forum:
Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages
Many librettos are written in a language other than that of their source text. What interesting results…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic New Chaucer Society: Call for Future Forward Session for summer Expo 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years agoNCS Expo, Future Forward Call for Nominees, #NCSExpo2021
Organisers: Seeta Chaganti; Bobby Meyer-Lee; Emily Steiner.
Whether in the context of long-term social justice commitments or in response to shifts in global politics over the last few years, medievalists have found themselves facing questions about the relation – or lack thereof – betw…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoItaly was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoFor Session 660: Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, please see the attached abstracts.
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPlease take note of the following sessions sponsored by the Middle English Forum at virtual MLA 2021!
205. Medieval Abstraction, Friday, 8 January, 10:15-11:30 am
Presider: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago
Speakers: Danielle Allor, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Clint Morrison, Ohio State U, Columbus; Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider U; Kellie Robertson, U…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic THE JACK PRIZE – International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures in the discussion
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn 2018, the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures launched the Jack Prize, awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The prize is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack D.Litt. FRSE (1941-2016),…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Translations from ALLADA and EXPERIENCE D’EDWARD LEE, VERSAILLES by Gérard Gavarry in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAt the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore simil…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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