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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited Chris Abani and the Politics of Ambivalence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn his 2004 novel GraceLand, Chris Abani unsettles notions of youth “empowerment,” or “resistance,” creating a restless oscillation between cynicism and idealism. On the one hand, pervasive violence and restricting
norms seem to debilitate the novel’s characters, leaving little room to negoti- ate the constraints of their bleak lives in the slums…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language journal Editor: Leland G. Spencer in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language journal in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited The Creaturely Modernism of Amos Tutuola in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article examines the global African modernism of Amos Tutuola through the lens of his nonhuman folkloric creatures. Though the work of the early Nigerian novelist is often characterized as modernism’s inversion, or “traditional,” Tutuola in fact articulates a succession of surreal monsters in The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the B…[Read more]
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Matthew Omelsky deposited After the End Times: Postcrisis African Science Fiction in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe live in a moment of “apocalyptic time,” the “time of the end of time.” Ours is a moment of global ecological crisis, of the ever-impending collapse of capital. That we live on the brink is too clear. What is not, however, is our ability to imagine the moment after this dual crisis. In recent years, African artists have begun to articul…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations
Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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