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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIndeed, Victor—- though naturally most everyone is so caught up in their own affairs and probably only a handfull of people have even bothered with reading my comments (which by the way is expressed most wonderfully by Buergel in Nocturnal Deliberations…). The level of discourse tends to be either limited to small subsets of “specialists” or…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen you quote Sofel’s acknowledgment of “the horror filled underbelly of all that is detestable regarding which hardly anybody is particularly eager to discuss,” it mirrors the detestable act of electing a man to the US Presidency who has engaged in thoroughly criminal, evil, and loathsome behaviors, including marking a “C” for colored folk to…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoFrom Walter H. Sokel’s Kafka study, Tragik & Ironie:
“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the horror filled un…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture</p>The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago<h3>CALL FOR PAPERS</h3>
<h1>Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture</h1>
<p class=”rteleft”>The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students,…[Read more] -
David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWell, not very much activity here in Philos. & Lit. – 1400+ members! – Perhaps TRUMP’s astounding Victory in the Electoral College will provide an impetus for more reflection on the state of the state >> Torture being quite acceptable to the Pres.-Elect….
I have uploaded my transl. of IN THE PENAL Colony to the Kafka group and anyone and…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
German Literature to 1700 on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe term of this forum’s representative in the Delegate Assembly will come to an end in January 2018, so the election of a new representative is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will consider nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive comm…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]
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Emily Kugler started the topic CFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue Overview & CFP for 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University
In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” For…[Read more] -
Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society An…[Read more] -
LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoEnthymema International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)
Call for Papers: Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology
On the intersection of the tenth anniversary of his death (2007) and of the fortieth anniversary of the first publication of his mos…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Hamlet's Delay: A New Perspective on the Sphinx in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAbstract: This article poses a challenge to contemporary historicist tendency to silence significant semantic threads within Hamlet, attempts to restore our critical interest in the age-old problem of delay of the protagonist, and thus distinguish the text in itself from its historicised version. In doing so, my over-all argument proposes an…[Read more]
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