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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017, "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)
Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysi…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoREVISED WELCOME:
Rust Belt Literature
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature (RBL) group. NOTE: We are calling for formation of a panel on RBL at next MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust B…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCertainly! We can also include Northern Mexico’s mining and steel areas.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic News to share? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello,
Thank you for this message. I recently won an award and I would like to have this news shared with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter to be included in the September issue!
Professor Maria Figueredo wins 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching Award
(Full-Time Faculty Category)
This prestigious award is an important recognit…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi again @gloriamla,
I just wanted to pass on a message from @okala35shimobi that ended up in the Commons inbox:
Dear Gloria Lee McMillan,
Could you tell me how to get a copy of the stories? Though neither a resident nor specialist on the Rust Belt, I’m nonetheless interested in reading a story that uses post-colonialism to represent the e…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoApologies to DANE for saying Diane!
I have uploaded my story to CORE and thank you, Nicky.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago@gloriamla, you can also upload a copy of the story to CORE, the MLA’s Open Access repository for member work. You’ll get a DOI (permanent link) to share with anyone—not just MLA members—and download statistics, and as CORE is a library-quality archive, your work will also be ensured longevity!
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello, Diane,
Please contact me at glomc@dakotacom.net. I will send a copy of the story.
I am also collecting stories from others for a short story collection to be called Children of Steel. These are fiction stories from people who have grown up in the rust belt in steel mill towns.
Please let others know. We ave a Children of Steel em…[Read more]
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Dane Johnson replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI’m from Northwest Indiana, and I would be very interested in reading this story.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe ability to colonize, even to poison the people under the power of a colonial power has been studied in other countries. I would claim that the same “dumping” goes on in the Rust belt. People living in the Rust Belt in the US are under-represented in the United States “imaginary.”
Having grown up in the Rust Belt the child of a s…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic CfP: Worlding Minor/Small Literatures in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe concept of “minor/small literatures” is Eurocentric, provincial, and regional not only because it has been defined along the lines of European standards, such as the geopolitics of small nations, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, and the aesthetics of revolutionary modernism, but also due to its identification with the lit…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
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Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)On the intersection of the tenth ann…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Living list of stories to study ethics and economics of 21c global capitalism in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
A little over a year ago, I reached out on this forum for help identifying novels that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. I am grateful for the enthusiastic response and excellent suggestions I received and to share t…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoFor close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun’s search for a Chinese “Shakespeare,” and from Feng Xiaogang’s martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater,…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Yukio Ninagawa in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoStemming from a culture of translation, Ninagawa’s interpretations of Shakespeare were nurtured by Japan’s rebirth and consolidation of its national identity after the war. His stage works thrive in the contentious space between cultures. In fact, the notion that ‘modern Japan is a culture of translation’ has been taken for granted by many Japanes…[Read more]
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