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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
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 2017) or the Thoreau Society An…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting, NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissanc in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at th…[Read more]
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Lijing Peng deposited Language Ideologies in Gao Xingjian’s Literature: a Linguistic Anthropological Study of Chinese Diaspora Literature in Europe in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoInspired by Samuel Beckett’s attenuation of language, the French Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian has conducted various language experiments in his literary creations in the past two decades. Gao’s literary works, as Diaspora literature, have received extensive attention from European readers due to their Western modernist literary style, the aut…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Appel de communications Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Colloque international in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAppel de communications
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
Colloque international
Université de Toronto, Canada
24–26 mai 2017
L’affect est avant tout, dans l’ordre du corps, un phénomène physique et psychique, à la fois en-deçà et au-delà de la représentation, qui mobilise l’expérience concrète de soi, celle de l’autre et celle du monde. En…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic CfP: Worlding Minor/Small Literatures in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe concept of “minor/small literatures” is Eurocentric, provincial, and regional not only because it has been defined along the lines of European standards, such as the geopolitics of small nations, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, and the aesthetics of revolutionary modernism, but also due to its identification with the lit…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoEnthymema International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)
Call for Papers: Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology
On the intersection of the tenth anniversary of his death (2007) and of the fortieth anniversary of the first publication of his mos…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
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Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)On the intersection of the tenth ann…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Hamlet's Delay: A New Perspective on the Sphinx in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAbstract: This article poses a challenge to contemporary historicist tendency to silence significant semantic threads within Hamlet, attempts to restore our critical interest in the age-old problem of delay of the protagonist, and thus distinguish the text in itself from its historicised version. In doing so, my over-all argument proposes an…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Shakespearean Performance as a Multilingual Event: Alterity, Authenticity, Liminality in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe age of global Shakespeare has arrived. It is an age in which national and transnational performances become self-conscious of the contact zone they inhabit, where dramatic meanings are co-determined by linguistic cohesion and pluralism. If Jacque Derrida’s theory of translation makes all writing inherently multilingual, Shakespeare as…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoModern Chinese fiction dealing with cultural others can be taken as a lens through which to reread the cosmopolitan theory. At stake in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism are the viability of single cultural membership and its validity. Lao She’s Self-Sacrifice (1934) and Dr. Wen (1936-1937) question the viability of global c…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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