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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature 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 c…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Reconquest Colonialism and Andalusi Narrative Practice in Don Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor in the group
CLCS Medieval on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe author argues that Juan Manuel’s willingness to embrace Andalusī narrative genres and materials, including a number of proverbs which he quotes in the original Arabic, seems on the surface to run counter to his official
narrative of Reconquest. However, this apparent contradiction is typical both of the colonial society in which Don Juan Ma…[Read more] -
David Wacks deposited Reading Jaume Roig's Spill and the Libro de buen amor in the Iberian maqama tradition in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn this article the author argues for the influence of the Hebrew and Arabic maqama on the Libro de buen amor (Juan Ruiz) and Spill (Jaume Roig) based on the narratological disposition of the narrator/protagonist.
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David Wacks deposited Don Yllan and the Egyptian Sorceror: Vernacular commonality and literary diversity in medieval Castile in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn this article the author compares the exemplo of Don Yllan and the Dean de Santiago, #11 in Don Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) with an earlier Hebrew analogue found in the Hebrew Meshal Haqadmoni (ca. 1285) of fellow Castilian author Isaac ibn Sahula. A thorough analysis of the rhetorical and narrative style of both versions reveals that…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Between Secular and Sacred: Abraham ibn Ezra and the Song of Songs in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe work of the Judeo-Spanish poet and exegete Abraham Ibn Ezra (d. 1167 C.E.) featuring the language of the Song is perhaps the best showcase of the interplay between sacred and secular in Hebrew Andalusī literature. When it comes to the Song, Ibn Ezra literally wrote the book on it, a commentary that gives equal treatment to its literal and…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited The Performativity of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ's Kalīla wa-Dimna and Al- Maqāmāt al-Luzumīyya of al-Saraqusṭi in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoproviding a context for the anecdotes and fables narrated by the characters in each text.
The way in which the performativity of each text is constructed reflects their respective
cultural and literary heritage, as well as the performative nature of Medieval Arabic
literature in general. The two texts represent a convergence of different oral…[Read more] -
Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern 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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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Edited Volume on Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited The Poetics of Practicality in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores insistently practical medieval texts—works whose explicit goal is to assist their readers to make something in the world beyond the page (a book, a culinary dish, an ointment, an object) and asks if they can be said to have a poetics. Drawing on Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of practice as well as Gérard Gene…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Forum Delegate Election: Call for Suggestions in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative for TC Cognitive and Affect Studies 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 m…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefuturesThe fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures
The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Delegate Assembly Election: Call for Membership Suggestions in the discussion
History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSince the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled to end in January 2018, the election of a new delegate will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will begin to consider nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWhen it meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new forum representative in the Delegate Assembly. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has b…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election: Solicitation of Membership Suggestions in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWhen this forum’s executive committee meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, it will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for the forum. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has be…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque 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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Jane S. Grogan started the topic International Spenser Society Hugh MacLean memorial lecture at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago<div>
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<div>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 Amada, 217-219 Chestnut St,…[Read more] -
Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMy paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]
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