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Elana Gomel replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Alexandra, I am not sure whether it fits your definition of ostraneniye but the last scene in H. G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” has the violated body literally develop into visibility as the victim is dying. I wrote a book on violence (Bloodscripts, 2003) and though I did not deal with Shklovsky’s theory at any length, I was very intrigued by…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Hester Blum started the topic Prose Fiction Division Panel MLA 2017: The Sense of an Ending, Now in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Prose Fiction Division invites submissions for the following division panel for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
The Sense of an Ending, Now
Forum: GS Prose Fiction
Fifty years after the publication of Frank Kermode’s classic, we invite papers on the form, theme, and theory of endings. Death, epoch, marriage, apocalypse, ellipses. Abstracts by 1…[Read more] -
Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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Saskia Ziolkowski started the topic CFP: "Lessing and World Literature" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoAlthough Lessing’s examinations of literature in contrast to the other arts have been an object of considerable scholarly focus, Lessing is rarely mentioned in the many studies of world literature. Lessing’s absence contrasts with Goethe’s, who is well-known as being one of the earliest (often credited as being the earliest) theorist of world li…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec started the topic CFP: "Machine Translation Before 1800" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoContributors are invited for a special session on “Machine Translation Before 1800” for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (January 5–8, 2017).
Translation has usually been conceived as a relationship between individual persons or texts across languages. How does thinking in terms of systems, teams, and conditions instead of indiv…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: MLA 2017 Session on "The 'Uses' of Literature" in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Executive Forum Session on The Teaching of Literature:
“The ‘Uses’ of Literature”
The focus of this session will be to explore the “uses” of literature and literary study from a wide variety of points of view. In her book The Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), Rita Felski argues that “reflecting on why literature matters . . . allows us…[Read more]
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Rebecca Day Babcock deposited Live from MLA-Writing about Writing in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years agoBlog on writing about writing sessions from MLA 2016
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie: regards croi in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCall for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and framed the emergence of mod…[Read more] -
Marisa Verna deposited Des anges en robe de laine. L’âme nue de Rimbaud in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDu paletot idéal de «Ma Bohème » à la robe de laine des anges de Mystique, les tissus se dématérialisent dans la poésie de Rimbaud. La portée du champ sémantique des étoffes et des vêtements dans l’œuvre du poète de Charleville structure, avec d’autres thèmes, l’esthétique de la Voyance. Le monde s’habille, en effet, d’âme, tandis que l’âme…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited La synesthésie dans Le Spleen de Paris. De la fusion à l’agrégation in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIf synesthesia is rare in “Le Spleen de Paris”, it is also differently constructed and shaped than in the Fleurs du Mal. This article aims to demonstrate that this evolution points out a shift in Baudelaire’s esthetics, that from Unity of Univers seems to move towards fragmentation of reality: actually, from Baudelaire to Proust.
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Helene Meyers deposited "Why Do Research?" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoPMLA Forum piece that argues for the direct and indirect value of the scholarly enterprise to the sacred art of teaching.
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Beat Studies at ALA 2016 – CFP in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited "Write YOUR Story" children's writing workshop in the news! in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn this free workshop, children and preteens (age 8-12) creatively explore and expand their sense of self by thinking and writing about their life – past, present, and future. Group activities, games, solitary writing, and illustrating provide for a fun and productive setting. Students will receive individual attention and gradually realize how…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2017 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2017, post them here or email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the committee members before MLA! Sorry for late notice. (Teaching starts tomorrow here.)
Jonathan
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Holly Larson deposited The Art of Negotiation: Student Writers Claiming Authority and Humility in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOne of the hardest concepts to teach first-year composition students is the role of authority in academic writing. How are young adults who have a limited social world view and older adults who have left school for several years expected to assert themselves with confidence? Equally, another difficult threshold concept for FYC students is the act…[Read more]
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