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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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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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Transnational Medieval (journal) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoLICO Call for Papers: Medieval Literature and the Trans-National
Literature Compass invites contributions for a special issue on transnationalism in medieval literature.
The period from c. 500 to c. 1500CE can be characterized by fluidity of borders and identities. While a town or individual might have belonged to a particular religious group or…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Operating Systems of the Mind: Bibliography After Word Processing (the Example of Updike) in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPublished in PBSA 108.4. Began as the annual address to the Bibliographical Society of America in 2014; also given as the Mann Lecture at Penn State and at RBS in Charlottesville. Inspired, of course, by D. F. McKenzie’s great paper, “Printers of the Mind.”
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Privileging of Visio over Vox in the Mystical Experiences of Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIn twelfth‐century Germany, where mysticism was a common phenomenon, Hildegard of Bingen and her visions were readily accepted — making it all the more significant that, despite the generally receptive conditions, Hildegard went to such trouble to make sure her visions and her writings were endorsed by the Church. In contrast, Joan of Arc, liv…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Maragall a Itàlia al voltant de 1947 in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJust after the Second World War two Italian writers chose to look at the poetry of Joan Maragall. Montale’s version of the “Spiritual
Canto” has led to a variety of debates and interpretations, while the publication of a modest anthology of Catalan poets by Pasolini
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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Lucia Treanor deposited Palindromic Structure in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDefinition of Palindromic Structure
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Lucia Treanor deposited Palindromic Structure in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDefinition of Palindromic Structure
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Lucia Treanor deposited Palindromic Structure in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDefinition of Palindromic Structure
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Miriamne Ara Krummel started the topic Executive Committee in the discussion
Arthurian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoGreetings.
I am honored to have been asked to stand for election to the Executive Committee of CLCS Arthurian. As a member of the executive committee, I will work to protect the representation of this field at the MLA Conferences and in the PMLA journal (when possible) by proposing sessions/topics that reflect on the exciting possibilities…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic News on translation in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoUnder a program of the American Literary Translators Association, a translating mentorship has been created which includes Catalan. Currently, the experienced translator Ronald Puppo of the Universitat de Vic is helping the emerging translator Scott Shanahan with a translation of Mercè Rodoreda’s “Viatges i flors.” A mentorship lasts for one y…[Read more]
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Lynn Ramey started the topic Digital World Map Broadens Scope for Middle Ages Teaching and Research in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoOnline users can now travel back in time to the medieval world by clicking through a collection of international research on the first digital platform of its kind from The University of Texas at Austin.
The Web portal known as “MappaMundi” — a Latin word meaning “world map” — presents the world of 500-1500 A.D. on a modern platform created by…[Read more]
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