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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Is there a Beat Studies organization? in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat a great question! There IS an organization for Beat Studies.
Visit http://beatstudies.org/ to learn about the Beat Studies Association, which promotes Beat Studies, publishes The Journal of Beat Studies, and is a great repository for Beat scholars. Membership information is there too.
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – NeMLA 2019 – Transnational Beat Generation in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoCall For Papers: The Transnational Beat Generation
Moderator: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” asked Jack Kerouac. Apparently across many borders, because that hip, counterculture Beat Generation impact has lasted. This panel invites papers which explore how Beat Gen…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook 17: Shakespeare and Value, Edited by Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Simon Haines (New York: Routledge, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHow do Shakespearean plays sustain clashing values within them, or imposed on them? Is Shakespeare anti-Semitic? Can Shakespeare be a feminist? How is value subject to context, to market, and demand? A wide range of moral, political, and aesthetic values—profitable or heartening or threatening from case to case—have been associated with Sha…[Read more]
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Kevin Potter started the topic CfP Special Issue of Humanities on Postcolonial Literatures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Humanities, Special Issue:
“Disturbances of Home/land in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures”
Official call for papers page: here
Call for Papers:
In our vision of the home, or of what we associate with home, we tend to conjure up images of comfort, stability, permanence, primacy, and belonging. This image extends bey…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic CFP: "Hispanic Poetry and World War I" (NeMLA 2019) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m chairing a panel on Hispanic Poetry and World War I at NeMLA 2019 in Washington, DC. The dates are March 21-24. Please take a look at the CFP here [https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html] and pass the information along to any colleagues who might be interested. If my panel isn’t up your alley, consider submitting to…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Musical Mimesis in Orphans of the Storm in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn this essay I explore the use of musical mimesis in the score for D. W. Griffith’s 1921 film Orphans of the Storm. I demonstrate that the score, created by Louis F. Gottschalk and William Frederick Peters, offers coherence through the use of central themes and the employment of several characteristic leitmotivs; provides recognizable musical c…[Read more]
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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
TC Translation Studies 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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Hatem Akil replied to the topic CfP: Images and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries, 2010s in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear Ghenwa,
This sounds like quite a fascinating project. Thank you for sharing. Is this for an edited volume? Journal?
All the best,
Hatem
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic CfP: Images and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries, 2010s in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoImages and memory: representations of conflicts in Arab countries during the 2010s.
The questions of memory and representations of conflicts are deeply rooted in the cinematic and artistic practices of Arab countries: Lebanese cinema always questions its civil war, since it started in 1975, exploring until today its consequences in a troubled…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic Call for Papers, 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 17th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (University of Chicago, April 25-27, 2019).
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Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoWhat are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]
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Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoWhat are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: Special Issue of The Space Between: CINEMA (12/31/19) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSpecial Issue
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945
Call for Essays:
Cinema in the Space Between: An International Approach
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 is the annual peer-reviewed digital journal of the Space Between Society, focused on interdisciplinary scholarship of the two world wars and the dec…[Read more]
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andré carrington posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis may only be the case for a short while, but my article “Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther,” is currently the most read article in American Literature. It’s part of this wonderful special issue edited by Ramzi Fawaz and Darieck Scott. Free to read https:/…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Bradley Irish deposited Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (Northwestern UP, 2018) in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoUniting literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and a deeply archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court freshly examines how literature reflects and constructs the dynamics of emotional life in the Renaissance courtly sphere. Spanning the 16th century — with chapters on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey…[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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