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Aurelie Vialette posted an update in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoMLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).
Abstracts should be sent to aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu
Deadline: March 15th, 2018.Short description:
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. The role of Catalonia. T…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.
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Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] -
Luiza Franco Moreira deposited Remembering Antonio Candido in the group
LLC Global Portuguese on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the 2018 MLA Convention, the Luso-Brazilian Forum organized a meeting to remember Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017), on January 6, 7:15-8:30 PM. This posting collects most papers read at the meeting. Should you be interested in contributing your own remembrance, or reflections on Candido’s career, please send them to me on the Commons. I…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
questions the meaninglessness of bloodshed in the battlefield, a trait which i…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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Luiza Franco Moreira created the doc Remembering Antonio Candido in the group
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Remy Attig deposited Did the Sephardic Jews Speak Ladino? in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe term ‘Ladino’ has been used by some scholars in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardic Jews. Sometimes it has been used in reference to the language spoken by the Jews in Medieval Spain while at other times scholars have used this term in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire in the centuries fol…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoPreview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.
Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]
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Brandon Walsh deposited Hacking the Book in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis course considers literary experiment instigated by the Internet and exercised on both analogue and digital platforms. When we think of “hacking,” we frequently think of solitary computer programmers in dark rooms. But hacking also implies a culture of profane disruption that closely mirrors developments in literary experimentation over the…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes the connections between Lorde’s representations of blindness in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and its connection to lesbian sexuality.
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] - Load More
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