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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg 28-31/8 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago[English version below]
Care colleghe e cari colleghi,
siamo lieti di segnalarvi l’apertura delle iscrizioni alla prima Summer School Enthymema “Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea”, che si terrà dal 28 al 31 agosto a Monopoli (BA).
Le iscrizioni sono aperte fino al 30 aprile.…[Read more] -
Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we are glad to announce that registration is now open for the first Summer School Enthymema “Family morphologies: Leone and Natalia Ginzburg in Italian and European literature and culture”, which will take place 28th-31st August 2017, in Monopoli (Puglia), Italy.
The deadline for registration is 30th April 2017.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA 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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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. 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 1984 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more] -
Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies
Italian American Studies Association 2017
University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy
June 16-18, 2017
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has become increasingly popular within academia. The scholarly appropriation of a term historically associated with the tragic dispersal of a…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: “La France est en guerre” (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
Send 200-word abstract and one-page CV to Jennifer Cazenave…[Read more] -
Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: "La France est en guerre" (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
Send 200-word abstract and one-page CV to Jennifer Cazenave…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP–MLA Session 2018: Literary Studies and the Public Humanities in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoRoundtable on Literary Study and the Public Humanities: “What should ‘Next Generation’ Humanities Education look like? What should it do?”
In the past several years, the NEH and other educational institutions across the United States have called for new ways of imagining graduate degrees in literature and the humanities. Although there is…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFP MLA 2018: From Anarchism to Assimilation: The Making of Italian Americans in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn conjunction with the MLA theme: #States of Insecurity, this panel seeks contributions that complicate notions of assimilation and the assimilated Italian American. How has Italian American radicalization been minimized, erased, or marginalized in favor of the assimilation tale of struggle, hard work, and success? How have Italian radical…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFP MLA 2018: From Anarchism to Assimilation: The Making of Italian Americans in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn conjunction with the MLA theme: #States of Insecurity, this panel seeks contributions that complicate notions of assimilation and the assimilated Italian American. How has Italian American radicalization been minimized, erased, or marginalized in favor of the assimilation tale of struggle, hard work, and success? How have Italian radical…[Read more]
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