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E. Jane Hedley replied to the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI have had no luck using the link provided above to book for this year’s Spenser Society luncheon. Please advise.
Jane Hedley
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic American Documentary Poetics CFP in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos a…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Fall 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s representative in the Delegate Assembly will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). Aula lírica is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Charles A. Huttar deposited The Art of Detection in a World of Change: "The Silver Chair" and Spenser Revisited in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoC. S. Lewis’s fourth Narnian chronicle is considered as detective fiction, illustrating principles for solving a murder mystery, especially alertness to the difference between appearance and reality. The human protagonists nearly fail through carelessness, overconfidence, and forgetfulness, combined with the deceit and magic of a shape-shifting v…[Read more]
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