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Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoA partir de la lectura del epistolario de Anna Melissa Graves, este trabajo recompone la relación de complicidad entre la escultora chilena Laura Rodig y la, hasta ahora desconocida “mecenas”, Consuelo Lemetayer. De manera específica, esta indagación de archivo analiza las redes queer de cooperación transnacional y transatlántica en las que part…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada’s Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhy has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.
Many thanks,
Luz Angélica Kirschner
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest Hungary,29-31 August 2018 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThe comparative studies journals Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University), Neohelicon (Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary), and Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (East China Normal University, Shanghai), with support of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will sponsor an international conference in Budapest, Hungary, from 29-31 Augu…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Monica Diaz started the topic CFP MLA 2019 African Transactions Within and Beyond Colonial Brazil in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years agoGuaranteed session of the of Colonial Latin American Forum
What can the study of African/Afro-descendent culture in colonial Brazil teach us about its presence elsewhere? Papers on the African presence in Brazil in isolation, connection, or comparison to other areas of colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract and cv to Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu
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Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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