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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Announcement: Hawthorne Society — "Hawthorne and Things" MLA 2018 abstracts in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoNathaniel Hawthorne Society – “Hawthorne and Things” MLA 2018 panel description and abstracts
Things abound in Hawthorne. We hope this panel can provoke a lively discussion of what happens to our understanding of them when we move beyond conventional interpretations of symbolic meaning to focus instead on things themselves as potential makers of…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Poe/Hawthorne Joint International Conference – Kyoto, Japan June 21-24, 2018 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from <span data-term=”goog_239816782″>June 21-24, 2018</span>. Our plenary speaker will be Takayuki Tatsumi and our keynote speaker will be…[Read more]
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Stephen Llano deposited Beating Rhetoric: Rhetorical Theory in the Beat Generation in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe beat generation has been examined as a social movement, literary period, and political statement from many different scholarly perspectives. Through the method of rhetorical criticism I tease out an implicit theory of rhetoric from the writings of the principal beat generation founders—namely Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Offering a r…[Read more]
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Stephen Llano deposited Placing the Poetic Corrective: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke and the Poetic Imaginary in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay explores the meaning of Kenneth Burke’s notion of the “poetic corrective” from his book Permanence and Change by examining the ideas of William Carlos Williams, a lifelong friend and frequent correspondent with Burke. Williams’s poetry is also examined as a potential model for the “poetic corrective,” which I suggest is what Burke might…[Read more]
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Leticia Perez Alonso started the topic CFP for ALA New Orleans in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCONFERENCE “Regionalism and Place in American Literature:” http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-symposia/regionalism-and-place-in-american-literature/
Sense of Place in American Modernist Poetry and Visual Art
This panel explores the sense of place as part of the indigenous language of American artistic production of…[Read more]
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Consuelo del Val deposited Flannery O’Connor and her standpoint on the problem of evilness in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDraft
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Joydeep Chakraborty started the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of contemporary American poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me.
Joydeep chakraborty
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Nicky Agate started the topic Call for Contributors: The Open Anthology of Early American Literature in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature was initially created by Robin deRosa at Plymouth State University. Working with students, they collected public domain texts, edited them as necessary and created introductions for each to form the beginnings of a new, definitive anthology of Early American Literature.
The project is now in the…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Leticia Perez Alonso started the topic Panel for SAMLA in Atlanta in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI am chairing a panel for the SAMLA, which will take place in Atlanta on 3-5 November, 2017. Please help me circulate this information or send me abstracts if you are interested in the topic. Below you can find information about the conference and my panel. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
CONFERENCE: High Art/Low Art: Borders and…[Read more]
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Gina Brandolino created the group
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Latina/o New York in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPapers examining the history and/or contemporary state of Latina/o literature and cultural production in New York. 200-300 word abstract, 1-page cv by March 10, 2017 to John Alba Cutler (john-cutler@northwestern.edu).
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James Gifford deposited NOTES The Handmaid’s Tale in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Civil Disobedience in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic Extended Deadline. CFP (MLA 2018): The "X" Factor in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2018; co-sponsored by LLC Latina and Latino and LLC Chicana and Chicano
Papers exploring the historical, gendered, and linguistic aspects of the shift from Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Chican@/Latin@ to Chicanx/Latinx. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by March 20, 2017; Richard T. Rodriguez…[Read more]
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Richard McLamore deposited mysteries of hawthorne’s mysterious package in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoDRAFT of introd chapter of work following the trail of allusions, consequences, etc. that ensues from considering Hawthorne’s discovery narrative in “The Custom-House” as fully implicated in the narrative-arc of events begun with Hester Prynne’s revelation of her elaborate embroidery in 1642.
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deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThis paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s AAmerican Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoCaribbean Space and Bodies at War
Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu). - Load More
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