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Paula A. Sprague replied to the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAmended announcement posting:
THE NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY (NACS) PRIZE
For outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Article of Interest? in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThank you, @99522ps! We definitely encourage all our members to explore the materials in CORE and upload their own syllabi, course materials, and research so that others might benefit from it too.
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Paula A. Sprague started the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoFor outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or research institute in North America.
2) All studies published between the 1st of…[Read more]
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Anton Pujol started the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCatalan Cinema and New Media
Papers should examine Catalan cinema and new media with a focus on the global, intercultural and transnational aspects of Catalan society. Send 300 word abstract to Anton Pujol at apujol@uncc.edu by March 15th.
2017 MLA (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoMLA Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more p…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Sharon Lois Mazer started the topic CFP: Technologies of Writing in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Journal of Creative Technologies invites proposals for a special cross -disciplinary issue exploring ‘Technologies of Writing’ to be published in late 2016. Diverse definitions and modes of ‘writing’ are welcome. We also encourage the use of multimodal forms of publication, eg images, video, sound. We are seeking articles from a wide range of…[Read more]
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Brandon Taylor deposited The Pleasure of Walter White’s Grotesque Odyssey: Complex Narrative Escalation in AMC’s Breaking Bad (2008-2013) in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article maps the emergence and prevalence of the white heterosexual male psychopath in modern American commercial television through an analysis of the final three episodes of Breaking Bad (2009-2013).
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and even to share some of your own.
– Nicky Agate…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Article of Interest? in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the following publication that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (You can see any such items by clicking the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleague’s work and to perhaps share your own course materia…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Jennifer,
Thank you for your message, and for your kind words. I didn’t know you taught Catalan Literature in Translation at Rutgers. That is wonderful news. Well, as you see, there is a terrific new crop of translations. I hope you can also acquire them for the Rutgers library.
All the best,
Mary Ann
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Jennifer Duprey replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Mary Ann:
I received your translation a week ago. Thank so much for undertaking such a difficult and migthy task! I’m looking forward to read it. I agree with Elisa and Aurelie. As you know I teach Catalan Literature in Translation at Rutgers, and, more often than not, is quite difficult to find translations.
Jennifer
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Elisa and Aurélie,
Thanks for responding. I will continue posting in English because this is a topic that could be of interest beyond the Catalan community.
Is there any way for us to use the Commons to post news of new translations? I will gladly make a pdf of the most recent crop of translations. Perhaps we could also circulate it…[Read more]
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Aurelie Vialette replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoMoltes gràcies, Mary Ann. Estic completament d’accord amb l’Elisa –és una gran cosa tenir notificació de les traduccions de textos catalans. Ensenyo cursos en anglès i sempre tinc problemes per incorporar textos catalans perquè no trobo traducció (en particular textos del segle 19).
Em sembla que una de les coses que hem de fer és crear una re…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoGràcies, Mary Ann,
De moment, el teu e-mail m’ha servit per actualitzar els fons de la biblioteca de NU de textos catalans traduïts.
Respecte a les preguntes que fas, només puc dir, com a professora, no com a scholar sobre traducció, que no en sóc, que l’existència d’una més extensa varietat de textos traduïts facilita molt la seva incorpo…[Read more]
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Juan E. De Castro deposited ¿En qué idioma escribe usted?: Spanish, Tagalog and Identity in José Rizal's Noli me tangere in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago“¿En qué idioma escribe Ud.?” (142) “In which language are you writing?” This question, that Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the protagonist of José Rizal’s novel Noli me tangere (1887), addresses to the old scholar Don Anastasio, better known as Tasio, is more than just an expression of curiosity when he sees the latter writing, of all things, hiero…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Special issue of eHumanista/IVITRA on Llull in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoCongratulations, and thank you for the link. What a great resource.
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Mary Ann Newman started the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn case some members of the LLC Catalan Studies might not be aware of it, a flurry of translations has recently become available. I believe the latest is Private Life, by Josep Maria de Sagarra (Archipelago Books), which I am proud to have translated, but earlier this year Archipelago also published Life Embitters, Peter Bush’s translation of …[Read more]
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Henry Berlin started the topic Special issue of eHumanista/IVITRA on Llull in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’m happy to announce that “Arts of Finding Truth: Approaching Ramon Llull, 700 Years Later,” a special issue I edited for eHumanista/IVITRA, is now available, with excellent contributions from Amy Austin, Júlia Butinyà, Ricardo da Costa, Dominique de Courcelles, Gabriel Ensenyat, Roger Friedlein, Antonio Ortega Villoslada, Maribel Ripoll, Josep E…[Read more]
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