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Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] -
Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoPreview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.
Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited „Ça va de soi“. Die visuelle Repräsentation von Gewalt im Holocaust-Dokumentarfilm in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoBrian Winston greift die Debatte um die Nicht-Darstellbarkeit der Gewalt des Holocausts auf und weist darauf hin, dass vor jeder moralischen Überlegung zunächst einmal die fast vollständige Abwesenheit von audiovisuellen Zeugnissen konstatiert werden muss. Wie kann der Dokumentarfilm dennoch ein Bild des Grauens zeigen? In Referenz auf den Ve…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Transmediales Erzählen im narrativen Universum von “Game of Thrones” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoEnglish title: “Transmedia Storytelling in the narrative universe of ‘Game of Thrones'” — This essay’s aim is to briefly introduce the concept of Transmedia Storytelling and to provide a showcase analysis and review of the serial TV narrative of GAME OF THRONES in order to show how a television series’ narrative universe, driven by both producers…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoSyllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoSyllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoSyllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Bron/Broen, the Pilot Episode as Space between Cultures, and (re)negotiations of Nordic Noir in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoNordic Noir has, since the early-2000s, evolved into a globally-popular genre that now easily transcends media-specific boundaries. Television has always been at the forefront of that development: Scandinavian TV productions either turned literary successes into distinct and easily-recognizable television scripts, or developed independent shows…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Review of The Taming of the Shrew.” Shakespeare Bulletin 35.4 (2017): 700-703 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoCan we entertain the idea that The Taming of the Shrew can be performed and received as comedy in the post-Women’s March US? If so, would the laughter be empathetic and solidary rather than callous? The answer lies in physical theater which is uniquely poised to activate elements of farce in the play. Shrew is one of the Shakespearean comedies t…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Levente T. Szabó deposited À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe first international journal of comparative literary studies, entitled Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1877-1888), was published in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Klausenburg (in former Hungary, today in Romania). The research on the pioneering multilingual journal usually foregrounds only one of the editors, Hugo von Meltzl, the young university…[Read more]
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