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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Intro to Texts & Technology in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe syllabus for the introductory course in the core sequence for PhD students in Texts & Technology at the University of Central Florida, with an emphasis on introducing interdisciplinary humanist scholarship along with academic writing practices and web platform fundamentals. This iteration was redesigned to be taught via Zoom, using a mix of…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Translations from ALLADA and EXPERIENCE D’EDWARD LEE, VERSAILLES by Gérard Gavarry in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAt the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore simil…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Book Reviews and the Consolidation of Genre in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoSome literary scholars have claimed that predictive models can measure the strength of the boundaries that separate different cultural categories—genres, for instance, or market segments. But interpreting textual models as evidence about the strength of a cultural distinction has seemed a questionable move to many readers. We use book reviews to t…[Read more]
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Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPlease see abstract.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA CFP : “Spanish in the US: Globalization, Glocalization and New Discourses” in the discussion
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe session seeks papers that examine new discourses, practices, and identities, in US Latino and Hispanic communities in response to social pressures from above and outside (globalization) and social pressures from below and inside (glocalization). In particular, the session hopes to address questions pertaining to space, place, dominance,…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? Some Answers and More Quesions in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAt the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference in Utrecht, the authors launched a survey designed to answer the question “Who Teaches When We Teach DH?”. In this short talk, we will present and discuss some of the findings.
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this introduction to the digital humanities (DH), we will approach the field via a Caribbean Studies lens, exploring how an understanding of the digital based in the growing area of digital Caribbean studies might shape the larger field of DH.
The course aims to provide a landscape view of DH, paying attention to how its various approaches…[Read more]
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Aileen A. Feng started the topic CFP: “Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” — RSA 2021 (Dublin) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRenaissance Society of America (RSA), 2021 Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland, 7-10 April 2021 (https://www.rsa.org/page/RSADublin2021)
“Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” sponsored by the Dante Society of America (DSA; https://www.dantesociety.org/)
Organized by Erminia Ardissino, with Aileen A. Feng (DSA representative to…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores the gap between the abstract ideal of fairness and the bodily materiality of retribution. My aim is to suggest how some current cognitive science affords a helpful way of talking about the breaks between abstractions, or thoughts of fairness, and the judgments and punishments produced by actual legal systems. It is remarkably…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores the gap between the abstract ideal of fairness and the bodily materiality of retribution. My aim is to suggest how some current cognitive science affords a helpful way of talking about the breaks between abstractions, or thoughts of fairness, and the judgments and punishments produced by actual legal systems. It is remarkably…[Read more]
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