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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited “Any differences between our versions and Scott’s…”: Collaboration, Anxiety of Influence, and a Translation of Anne Hébert’s “Le Tombeau des rois” in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAn analysis of the collaboration between Peter Miller and Louis Dudek in the translation of Anne Hébert’s poem, The Tomb of Kings.
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP special issue African Literature Today: Queer Theory in Film and Fiction to
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more] -
Lucinda Newns started the topic CFP UPDATE: PSA Convention 2017 on Globalisation – NEW KEYNOTES (Deadline: 2/28) in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>Postcolonial Studies Association Convention</b>
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<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London (UK), 18–20 September 2017</b>
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder that this Friday February 17, 2017 is the CFP deadline for “Situating Lyric” (Boston University, June 7-11, 2017): see http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric . Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Culler, Charles Altieri, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Dominique Combe, Eva Zettelmann, Klaus Hempfer, Haun Saussy, Stephen Owen, Robert von…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Jiwei Xiao started the topic Jia Pingwa MLA 2018 Roundtable cfp in the discussion
Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World Literature: Translation and Interpretation
A Roundtable sponsored by the LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum for the MLA Annual Meeting in New York, Jan. 4-7, 2018.
Jia Pingwa is considered one of the most original and influential novelists in contemporary China. A prolific writer, he has non…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: “La France est en guerre” (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
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Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP–MLA Session 2018: Literary Studies and the Public Humanities in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoRoundtable on Literary Study and the Public Humanities: “What should ‘Next Generation’ Humanities Education look like? What should it do?”
In the past several years, the NEH and other educational institutions across the United States have called for new ways of imagining graduate degrees in literature and the humanities. Although there is…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFP MLA 2018: From Anarchism to Assimilation: The Making of Italian Americans in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn conjunction with the MLA theme: #States of Insecurity, this panel seeks contributions that complicate notions of assimilation and the assimilated Italian American. How has Italian American radicalization been minimized, erased, or marginalized in favor of the assimilation tale of struggle, hard work, and success? How have Italian radical…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3384: Postcolonial Literature (2017-01) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoSelected works from the literatures of former European colonies: African, Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, Latin American, etc.
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James Gifford deposited HUMN 2439: Radical Political Thought in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis course explores major currents of political radicalism both within and outside of the dominant western political tradition. Topics considered may include antidemocratic radicalism, democratic radicalism, Marxian radicalism, radical feminism, radical individualism, and post-colonial radicalism. Readings will include selections from Kant,…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI@Palermo 2017: Call for Papers in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoCALL For Papers
AATI International Conference Abroad
Università degli Studi di Palermo
28 giugno – 2 luglio 2017
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Palermo, 28 giugno-2 luglio 2017, presso l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, co…[Read more]
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