Jennifer Duprey
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Maybel Mesa Morales started the topic MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoArchival De-Oblivion and Alternative Approaches in Contemporary Cuban Intermedial Production
Special Session
This panel will explore the memory-recovering alternative approaches to non-official archive in current Cuban intermedial practices. 250 word abstract, one-page CV. by 1 March 2017; Maybel Mesa Morales (mesa395@tamu.edu). -
Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Judith Sierra-Rivera started the topic Caribbean Space and Bodies at War – CFP LLC Puerto Rican in the discussion
Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Cultural Production on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoCaribbean Space and Bodies at War
Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Artaud y México in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Matthew Davis deposited “As Above, So Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years agoWith thirty-seven named locations, the Digby Mary Magdalene is rightfully considered to require the most elaborate staging of the Middle English dramatic corpus. In this article, I re-examine the manuscript to find evidence of how the various locations in the play can be grouped into what I term staging complexes. Beginning with the division of…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Sharon Lois Mazer replied to the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years agoKia ora, Michael. Just a quick question: Will you be posting a longer CFP, or can I push on with this in mind?
Best
Sharon
Dr Sharon Mazer
Associate Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies
Auckland University of Technology
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Michael Schinasi started the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years agoNational Theaters Around the Globe
Special Session
Any aspect of worldwide National Theaters (the institution usually manifest in buildings; not dramatic literatures). All periods: history, ideology, relation to culture industry, etc. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2017; Michael Schinasi (schinasim@ecu.edu). -
David Rodriguez-Solas started the topic CFP: Marginality in Iberian Theater, MLA 2018 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years ago
Call For Papers: Marginality in Iberian Theater (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
Proposals should address the topic of marginality in Iberian drama and performance from the 16th to the 21st centuries. 250 word abstract by 1 March 2017; David Rodríguez-Solás (dsolas@umass.edu); Esther Fernández (ef14@rice.edu) -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Institutional History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Institutional History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through organizations, schools, institutes, and symposia. Papers on any aspect of this institutional history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Peter M. Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu). -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Book History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Book History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through publishing. Papers investigating presses, journals, book series, or other aspects of print history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu). -
Edgar Illas created the doc 2017 MLA – Abstract in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago -
Edgar Illas created the doc 2017 MLA – Abstract in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Joan Maragall secondo Giuseppe Grilli in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoGrilli’s interpretation of Joan Maragall – the poet who has been purported to be a symbol of Catalan Modernism – is a kaleidoscopic study of literature, art and music. Nonetheless, it maintains an internal coherence over the course of the Grilli’s critical reading and thinking. His maragallian analysis are organized in three point…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Reading Jaume Roig's Spill and the Libro de buen amor in the Iberian maqama tradition in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn this article the author argues for the influence of the Hebrew and Arabic maqama on the Libro de buen amor (Juan Ruiz) and Spill (Jaume Roig) based on the narratological disposition of the narrator/protagonist.
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw at the Shaw Festival (Ontario) (due 30 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago“Shaw at The Shaw” Conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 21-25, 2017
Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2017
Sponsored by the International Shaw Society, The Shaw Festival, and York University, “Shaw at The Shaw” seeks paper proposals that will cover a broad spectrum of topics but will give some preference to topics on the two Shaw…[Read more] -
Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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