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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Angelica Alicia Duran started the topic Exec Comm nominee Angelica Duran in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoDear folks, with the MLA’s kind reminder sent out today that there is just one more week to go for voting for the various MLA Executive Committees, including the Poetry and Poetics Forum, I would just like to say that, if I become a member of that Exec Comm, I would work to give due credit to all kinds of poetry; to coordinate public and digital…[Read more]
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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Awards Announcement — Ralph Waldo Emerson Society in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2016
<div class=”column”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2016) or the…[Read more] -
Nicole Seymour started the topic Fellowships — Rachel Carson Center in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, has released its call for a new group of fellows. Both academics and artists working in the environmental humanities, of any nationality, are eligible. Applications are due 31 January 2016. Please see the following link for more information — and spread the w…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue on Transatlantic Ecocriticism.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Susan Signe Morrison replied to the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCan’t wait to see folks there!
Cheers, Susan Morrison
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen started the topic MLA 2016 Happy Hour in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIf you are attending the MLA convention in Austin, TX please join us at Container Bar (made of recycled shipping containers!) for a happy hour on Thursday January 7 beginning at 8 PM. The gathering is co-sponsored by ASLE and the MLA Ecocriticism and Environmental Forum. All are welcome!
The Container Bar is located at 90 Rainey St, Austin, T…[Read more]
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Thomas Berenato started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Seminar on Poetry and Forgiveness in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoSubmit an abstract by 23 September 2015 at http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-and-forgiveness:
W. H. Auden: “Every beautiful poem presents an analogy to the forgiveness of sins.” Geoffrey Hill: “the technical perfecting of a poem is an act of atonement, in the radical etymological sense—an act of at-one-ment, a setting at one, a bringing…[Read more]
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Nate Mickelson started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Poetry as Practice, Practice as Poetry in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoAbstracts due September 23 via http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-practice-practice-poetry
The philosopher Pierre Hadot worked throughout his career to locate poetry, particularly Goethe’s, within forms of “spiritual exercise” grounded in western philosophical and religious traditions. For Hadot, spiritual exercises (or practices) are forms…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more] -
Nicole Seymour started the topic Masculinity and Environment in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoDear All:
I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP C19, "Unsettling Medicine." in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Sari Altschuler
Deadline: August 16, 2015.
This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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