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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Journal CFP Women & Language (ed. Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Bill Hughes deposited CFP: ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAs Prof. Dale Townsend has observed, the concept of the Gothic has had an association with fairies from its inception; even before Walpole’s 1764 Castle of Otranto (considered the first Gothic novel), eighteenth-century poetics talked of ‘the fairy kind of writing’ which, for Addison, ‘raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader’…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Barbara Johnson and Deconstruction in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a note on the changing definition of deconstruction and the critical priorities surrounding the concept of difference in two of Barbara Johnson’s works, ‘The Critical Difference’ (1980) and ‘A World of Difference’ (1987).
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Enchanting Literary Modernity: Idris Bazorkin’s Postcolonial Soviet Pastoral (The Modern Language Review, 2020) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis article introduces the Ingush writer Idris Bazorkin. Bazorkin’s novel Dark Ages (1968) is examined as a pastoral novel that cultivates a Soviet style of postcolonial reflection on the cultural and historical memory of colonial rule.
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Thank you Rebecca Ruth Gold. The comparisons you draw between the novels of Thomas Hardy and Idris Bazorkin’s novel provide us with a picture of a complicated pastoral and sophisticated critique of colonialism (and, as you suggest, by implication the Soviet regime). At one point, the article contrasts Hardy’s “dense palimpsests of multiply…[Read more]
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Dear Francois, Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and questions! Yes, I think you are correct. In both Hardy (esp. The Woodlanders) and Bazorkin, the landscapes are part of the plot itself. I don’t think one can begin to understand the literature of the Caucasus without reflecting deeply on the way in which mountains frame our sense of humans’…[Read more]
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As we exchange remarks about the impetus and impact of time & place in the generation of ecocritical discourse, I am reminded of Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope. There is a certain imbrication of time, place and person and the question, for me, of who has access to the ecopoetical sublime and when. I wonder if the literary theory derived from…[Read more]
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Thanks so much, Francois, for the thought-provoking questions and suggestions! I look forward to continuing the conversation!
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Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoFrom Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited In Anthropocene Air: Deleuze’s Encounter with Shakespeare in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoA reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Shakespeare’s Blush, or “the Animal” in Othello in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactua…[Read more]
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