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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Popular Culture Discussion Group — You may be interested in applying:
Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election–Please Send Suggestions in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTC Popular Culture’s next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA quick reminder:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for abstracts looms!
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offer…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMy paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]
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Faye Hammill deposited Modern Periodicals syllabus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSyllabus for a final-year undergraduate course on Modern Periodicals, exploring late 19th and early 20th-century magazines and newspapers from the UK, US and Canada.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Social Networking in the Scriptorium in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis course examines the literary, cultural, and material life of written correspondence from the poetic epistle to the snarky tweet. And while we will read and analyze epistolary literature (both fiction and nonfiction) such as Ovid’s Heroides, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and
Alice Walker’s A Color Purple, we focus our efforts on “real” letters o…[Read more] -
Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an ever-growing…[Read more]
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Jeffery Moser replied to the topic 2016 MLA Election : Book History, Print Cultures and Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSounds wonderful. It really does help the reader to know the genre and century anyone is writing about. “Material culture” is quite a broad and vague term. Therefore, any further specificity is also useful. At least that is what I find in my work. We may also take note of the fact that our earliest writers had some of the best eyesight (not just…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic 2016 MLA Election : Book History, Print Cultures and Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGreetings. I am on the ballot for the forum executive committee for Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I write to ask you for your support of my candidacy.
I am keen to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. I would solicit and welcome input from members as to…[Read more]
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Eleanor F. Shevlin started the topic 2016 MLA election: Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography in the discussion
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I am a candidate to represent the Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography, and I am writing to ask you for your support and to let you know something about me and my qualifications.
An 18th-century scholar of British literature and culture, I have nonetheless worked widely in the field of book history a…[Read more]
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Juan Meneses started the topic CFP ASLE 2017: Comics, Graphic Novels, and the Environment (June 20-24 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThis panel for the next ASLE Conference seeks to offer a range of explorations of environmental and ecological themes in comics and graphic novels. Whereas the conference’s “Rust/Resistance” special topic should provide cohesion to the panel, papers that expand the study of comics and graphic novels from any environmental lens are also welco…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited "Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the pas…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE on the Commons in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Renaissance Media syllabus (ENGL 281, Spring 2016) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe attached syllabus was written for my undergraduate seminar “Renaissance Media” (ENGL 281) taught Spring 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. The learning objectives for the course were as follows:
“During this course, students will:
* learn the basic history and culture of media technologies in England during the early modern period (roughly 150…[Read more] -
Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHere’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more] - Load More
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