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Misty G. Anderson started the topic Religion in American Public Discourse in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoCompetitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose. Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States. During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse. President Donald Trump has recently declared the U.…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" – MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoNYC 2018 – Special Session Call for Papers: ETHICS & KNOWLEDGE
Bringing PLATO, CHRIST and Kafka together (Know Thyself; I AM; I am not (yet)) –
An unusual mix of Philosophy, Religion & Literature that hopes to bring light upon the most important matters:
Freedom & Necessity; Josef K. and Christ the JUDGE being man’s Higher Self as indicated in Ka…[Read more] -
Steve Dolph started the topic MLA Off-Site Event: Out/Lines in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe expansive contours of the Iberian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, expressed in the imperial motto plus ultra or “further beyond,” can at times obscure the aporias (of ecologies, ethnicities, and epistemologies) at its fringes. Recent scholarship on the material cultures, political economies, and discourses of gender of imperial Spain has…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2017 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2017.
We hope to see you there!
Colonial Latin American Studies
<span data-term=”goog_370016640″>Thursday, 5 January</span>, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin A…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" – MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPlease review the file KAFKA TRANSFORMED (uploaded by yours truly into this Group) & join in the deeper discussion of Kafka’s JOSEF K.! as a Symbol of the human tragedy of the 21st century. Perhaps there will be sufficient interest in the esoteric side of Kafka (himself deeply interested in mystical matters, e.g. his meeting with R.…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Edited Volume on Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Jane S. Grogan started the topic International Spenser Society Hugh MacLean memorial lecture at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago<div>
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<div>Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at Amada, 217-219 Chestnut St,…[Read more] -
Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an: Practice, Realization and Teaching in the thought of Chang Chiu-ch'eng in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAn overview of Zhang Jiucheng’s 張九成 (1092-1159) thought on mind-cultivation and Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 critique of Zhang and other Buddho-Confucians of the early Southern Song dynasty (1126-1279).
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue Overview & CFP for 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” For…[Read more] -
Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Call for Papers "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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