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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
I’m sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it i…[Read more]
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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the century, Edward Young put forth an idea of the individual author and his original work, it was Goethe, Wordsworth and…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
The Victorian Period on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS — MLA 2015, VANCOUVER
Around the World in Eighty Clicks: Travel and New Technologies
Discussion Group: Travel Literature
How have new technologies – the internet, planes, trains and automobiles influenced the experience of travel? 250 word abstract and c.v. by 15 March 2014; Gaurav G. Desai (gaurav@tulane.edu).
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
The English Romantic Period on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the Prose Fiction Division’s panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago next week. The Division is hosting two panels and co-sponsoring a third; details below.
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fic…[Read more]
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Maureen Noelle McLane posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTO: Romanticists and Friends of:
There will be FOUR panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the Division on the English Romantic Period at the upcoming MLA: MARK YOUR CALENDARS and support Romanticism!
Please do attend: in the middle of various MLA consolidation pushes (see the Restoration and late-18th C. Divisional duress), it is important…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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Gary Totten started the topic African Diaspora Heritage Studies Assistant Professor Position in the forum
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI wanted to bring to your attention a tenure-track assistant professor position in African Diaspora Heritage Studies, which may be of interest to travel writing scholars in this group. North Dakota State University is a Carnegie RU/VH institution, and English Department faculty teach a 2/2 course load. Here is the MLA JIL p…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
A collective of critics, scholars, and public intellectuals based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the official launch of Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://www.ethosreview.org/). Supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, our…[Read more]
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