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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTwo-Act Play
Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Annelle Curulla started the topic Voting for Forum Executive Committee and Nomination Process (LLC 18th-C. French) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPlease do not forget to vote for the next delegate (executive committee member) for the LLC 18th-Century French forum.
Our two candidates this year are Yann ROBERT and Tracy RUTLER. The deadline is very close: December 10. Here is the link: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections
The Executive Committee is seeking nomination proposals…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic MLA panel on cognition and literature: Lying Minds, Social MInds in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoFor those of you interested in cognitive approaches to literature, don’t miss our panel on the last day of the conference:
740: Lying Minds, Social Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Chinese Literature
Date: Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Time: 1:45 PM–3:00 PM
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Masano Yamashita started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: 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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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 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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Nathan Gorelick started the topic Nomination to Forum Executive Committee — Candidate Statement in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature,
I am writing to request your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. If elected, I would join the committee after the 2019 convention in January.
For three years (2016-2018), I served as the forum’s representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly, which…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera started the topic CFP: The Nineteenth-Century in 2019 Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth (http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-catriona-seth) and Pura…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man’s “Gary, Indiana” song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic Literary Universals Workshop at the University of Connecticut in the discussion
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP
The University of Connecticut, Storrs24 May 2019
Announcement and Call for Papers
Literary universals include properties and structures ranging, for example, from genre patterns through metaphor and imagery, and from ethical or political themes through formal features of prosody. Technically, literary universals are…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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