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Hugh M. Richmond deposited A Terence Staging in the Sixteenth Century in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis essay discusses an illustration of the opening scene of an indoor Renaissance performance, from an edition of Terrence dated 1580. This is the Prologue of the comedy “Heauton Timorumenos” (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Terence (195-159 B.C.) with an actor as the Prologue in a day-lit theatre. This setting marks the beginning of a shift away from…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic Zombie Theology: Desacralizing the Human Body in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGolems, Faustus, zombies–what do fantasies and fears of unsouled bodies, medieval to modern, reveal about human remains and resurrections? CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Liam Corley (wccorley@cpp.edu).
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Liam Corley started the topic Religion in the Contact Zones (MLA 2017 Guaranteed Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWhat is created where religions meet? Explore borderlands (geographical, linguistic, identitarian), interplays syncretic to agonistic, medieval to modern, animistic to orthodox. CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Adrienne Williams Boyarin (aboyarin@uvic.ca).
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Creative Mysticism CFP in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI draw your attention to this MLA 2017 special session CFP, which may be of interest to some:
Creative Mysticism
Practices of mystical writing and reading in any language, genre, or tradition. Possible topics: comparisons, commentarial traditions, modern re-creations of earlier works, other forms of art. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoUnbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30
Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin started the topic Religion & Literature Syllabus Prize (15 Mar 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis will be of interest to many:
ANNOUNCEMENT: DEADLINE EXTENDED
The journal Religion and Literature is soliciting submissions for its second annual syllabus prize. Syllabi should address both religion and literature in a substantial manner, and should encourage reflection on the many possible relations between them.
To submit a syllabus for…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoColonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographiesThis panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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Helene Meyers deposited "Woman in Gold" in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoFilm review of Woman in Gold (2015) as a cinematic rendering of the material turn in Holocaust memory.
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Caroline Edwards deposited From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse’s Liberation of Time in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article explores what Gershom Scholem has called Herbert Marcuse’s “unacknowledged ties to [his] Jewish heritage.” At the core of Marcuse’s vision of transformed, non-repressive social relations, I argue, is a struggle over time, which rests upon a distinctly Jewish approach to the twin questions of remembrance and redemption. One example…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!
Best wishes,
Nicolás Wey Gómez
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott
Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]
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Peter C. Herman deposited review: The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article is a review of the Haan-Lewalski OUP edition of Milton’s shorter. The book, I argue, is inexcusably difficult to use, and suggests that perhaps the time has come to replace long, very expensive tomes with digital editions.
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Monica Diaz started the topic Abstracts for the session "Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers" in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.
I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoIn an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]
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