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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare Theatre Company’ s Macbeth and the Limits of Multiculturalism.” Early Modern Culture 13 (2018): 240-246 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe STC Macbeth’s setting and predominantly multiethnic cast brought to mind Orson Welles’s landmark 1936 Macbeth which was set in Haiti and featured an all-black cast. In both cases, the ethnicity and race of the cast matched that of the characters and cultures in the adaptation’s respective universe. Tommy’s production engaged in two models…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis New Rheto rical Continuum Chart for Fiction shows a spectral range between individual (New Critical, structuralist, formalist) approach to group-based (socio-rhetorical) approach to fiction in the 21st Century.
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Radovan Škultéty replied to the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2019 MLA Special Session: Reinterpreting Nonsense</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Collection of Abstracts</p>
1. Gautam Basu Thakur“Nonhumans and Surplus Enjoyment in Sukumar Ray’s Nonsense Writings”
In his book of nonsense verses (abol-tabol [gibberish]), a nonsense novella (Hwa-Jwa-
Bwa-Rwa- Lwa), as well a…[Read more] -
Marcia T. Eppich-Harris deposited Hubert’s Encounters with the Succession in Shakespeare’s King John in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn a time when the anxiety about Elizabeth I’s heir to the throne was ripe, and illegal to discuss, Shakespeare focuses on the issue of succession in King John, and shows the parallels to his own age, while using Hubert as a metaphor for the difficult position of Shakespeare’s contemporary citizens of England as they anticipate the naming of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Jen Boyle started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago2019 MLA Convention
Special Session CFP
Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions
The promise of becoming in mediated transactions is fragile and unpredictable. Such transactions
might act as an instrument of interpellation that produces sovereign subjects, on the one hand,
and precarious objects, on the other hand. Or, as is often the…[Read more]
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638 in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe friends, followers, and fans of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, made no small contribution to the world of early modern English letters. This essay contributes to our growing understanding of the Essex circle’s literary afterlife by contextualizing BL Additional MS 18638, an early seventeenth-century manuscript containing a partial English…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn Shakespeare’s Richard II, the dramatic function of Thomas of Woodstock (King Richard’s murdered uncle) has long been a source of contention and confusion. This essay argues that Woodstock’s role in the play cannot be understood without reference to Richard II’s “prehistory”: the complex series of political circumstances and events that predat…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThough it is a critical commonplace that English revenge tragedy began with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, there has been little systematic discussion of how revenge fared as a dramatic theme before Kyd’s inaugural work. This essay reexamines the importance of revenge in early Elizabethan drama, by broadly surveying its thematic and rhe…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] -
Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: RiDE / Digital Shakespeare
William Shakespeare holds a unique position within education: few other cultural entities can claim to match the range of contact across ages, disciplines and countries that his work, life and cultural impact have produced. The diversity of pedagogical approaches to Shakespeare, therefore, is enormous, a diversity…[Read more]
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