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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza
Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello Elana!
Your book is on my reading list. How strange that authors of books intended for reading materialize as people… I’ve been thinking of Wells; it’s not quite ostranenie, methinks, but perhaps DIY ostranenie, available for possible reader construction.
Thank you!
…и вообще много общего у нас: только мой третий язык не иврит, а…[Read more]
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Elana Gomel replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Alexandra, I am not sure whether it fits your definition of ostraneniye but the last scene in H. G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” has the violated body literally develop into visibility as the victim is dying. I wrote a book on violence (Bloodscripts, 2003) and though I did not deal with Shklovsky’s theory at any length, I was very intrigued by…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Hester Blum started the topic Prose Fiction Division Panel MLA 2017: The Sense of an Ending, Now in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Prose Fiction Division invites submissions for the following division panel for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
The Sense of an Ending, Now
Forum: GS Prose Fiction
Fifty years after the publication of Frank Kermode’s classic, we invite papers on the form, theme, and theory of endings. Death, epoch, marriage, apocalypse, ellipses. Abstracts by 1…[Read more] -
Amy L. Friedman started the topic Beat Studies at ALA 2016 – CFP in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2017 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2017, post them here or email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the committee members before MLA! Sorry for late notice. (Teaching starts tomorrow here.)
Jonathan
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose fiction panels at MLA in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThe session sponsored at the upcoming MLA by the Prose Fiction forum is:
316. Cli-Fi: Climate Change and Narrative Fiction
Friday, 8 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 409, JW MarriottPresiding: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale Univ.
1. “Ecocatastrophic Nightmares in Recent Experimental Fiction,” Courtney Traub, Univ. of Oxford
2. “Climate-Change Fiction a…
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Hania Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction board elections in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI just wanted to post here to let everyone on this group know that I am running for the MLA Prose Fiction executive committee. One of the basic jobs of this position is choosing topics for the guaranteed MLA panels, and I promise to think broadly and openly about formulating those. (In fact, I think it would be a good idea to solicit suggestions…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoOh yes, the whole issue of postmodern novels as exercises in literary criticism is very interesting…
Haven’t read Gorra’s “Portrait”, though I love James. Thank you!
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Esther Leysorek Goodman replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHas anyone mentioned Michael Gorra’s “Portrait of a Novel” (about Portrait of a Lady)? Many of David Lodge’s academic novels introduce (and explain) literary history and theory, actually using theory as a plot element– “Small World” and “Nice Work,” for example.
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThank you!
…or else, be among the first and help define the style and length of contributions (re the latter, we’ll risk starting at 1000 words)
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Carlos Abreu Mendoza replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Alexandra (and of course you can use my first name 🙂
I’ve read the Latin American authors in Spanish a while ago but judging by the quality of the publishing houses they should be good translations. I found a couple of Bolaño’s essays in The New York Review of Books if you are…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Carlos (may I?), thank you!
I’d be delighted about a contribution from you. To my shame, I haven’t read any of your suggestions — and now I will, asap.
Starting the journal was worth it for all recommendations in these forum alone.:)
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIndeed!
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Mary Baine Campbell replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoAh, speaking of Latin writers, how about Horace, On the Sublime? Short, and big.
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