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Tom White deposited Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoNayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and quest…[Read more]
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Renata Kobetts Miller deposited Syllabus for Melodrama, with assignments, Spring 2019 in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis is a syllabus for Renata Kobetts Miller’s capstone research course on Melodrama at the City College of New York in Spring 2019. It is built on the Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama, edited by Carolyn Williams (2018). The syllabus includes the final assignment sequence for scaffolded research.
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited Myth and Mithraism in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoWhat T. S. Eliot called the “mythic method,” even in its modern form, was not an invention of Modernism. A significant precursor is Thomas Hardy, whose Mayor of Casterbridge has long been appreciated for its mythological structure and wealth of allusion. Here I suggest a new addition to mythological interpretation of the novel: the Greco-Roman dei…[Read more]
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Wendy Laura Belcher started the topic Early African Literature in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLooking for citations. It is my sense that most of the people who are in the African literature MLA forum are working on African literature from the 1950s through the 2010s. If you conduct research on literature written earlier, pre-1950s, especially African literature from the 1800s or earlier, please let me know. I am a faculty member publishing…[Read more]
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Pritika Pradhan deposited At the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics (proposed Special Session panel for MLA 2020 Convention in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis panel examines the paradoxical centrality of marginal elements in nineteenth-century aesthetics, to trace how they revitalize the conceptual and cultural impact of form. Abstracts forthcoming shortly.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Margaret Atwood’s _The Testaments_: Responses to _The Handmaid’s Tale_ Sequel in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis document contains brief statements about the approaches that the 7 roundtable panelists will take in responding to _The Testaments_, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to _The Handmaid’s Tale_.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
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Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
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Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
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Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
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Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel to
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited “English Literature: Theories, interpretations, Contexts” (journal) n.5 (Table of contents) in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“English Literature. Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” is a journal started in 2014 and run by an independent board of scholars in English literature, providing room for a critical analysis of issues and themes concerning English literature and literatures in English, also in a comparative view. It is published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited La Teoría de la Literatura y la Literatura Comparada hoy: reflexiones in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoWhat is the current status of the discipline of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature? How has the work published by 452ºF. Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature contributed to the field? These questions are the starting point for the reflections included in these critic’s notes, which have been conceived as a collective te…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]
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