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Murat Öğütcü deposited “Von Freunden und Fraktionen: Die Historiendramen von Shakespeare.” [Of Friends and Factions: Shakespeare‟s History Plays.] in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the Late Elizabethan Period, factionalism complicated the notion of, especially, male friendship. The scarcity of
financial resources of the royal patronage, the arbitrary distribution of favours, and bottom-up pressures of patronees
further problematized a healthy relationship among patrons and patronees and among friends. The horizontal…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited “Von Freunden und Fraktionen: Die Historiendramen von Shakespeare.” [Of Friends and Factions: Shakespeare‟s History Plays.] in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the Late Elizabethan Period, factionalism complicated the notion of, especially, male friendship. The scarcity of
financial resources of the royal patronage, the arbitrary distribution of favours, and bottom-up pressures of patronees
further problematized a healthy relationship among patrons and patronees and among friends. The horizontal…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Black started the topic March 10 deadline reminder: CFP, Medieval and 16th-c French in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020
Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:
French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Black started the topic March 10 deadline reminder: CFP, Medieval and 16th-c French in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020
Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:
French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Black started the topic Friday deadline – Reminder: 16th-c French CFPs, MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)
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Elizabeth Black started the topic Friday deadline – Reminder: 16th-c French CFPs, MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see below for three panels sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum at MLA 2021. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz
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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. Law at the Border (Guaranteed Session)
Papers on how law is m…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP: Forum Guaranteed Sessions for MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIf you’re thinking of attending the MLA convention next year in Toronto, please consider submitting an abstract for one of these sessions sponsored by the Renaissance and Early Modern Forum:
1. Gendered Vengeance
Exploring depictions of revenge that reinforce or question assumptions about gender, this guaranteed panel welcomes reconsiderations of…[Read more] -
Toby Wikström started the topic 17th-Century French Forum CFPs for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby WikströmBeyond Paris
Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position t…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA 2021 in Toroto – cpf – CLCS Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years agoMLA 2021 in Toronto, CLCS Medieval — two CFPs:
Objects
How do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Khanmohamadi (shirin1@sfsu.ed) by March 15.
Medieval Empir…[Read more]
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
Session 189: What’s Next for Law and the Humanities?
Thursday, January 9, 7:00-8:15 p.m.
WSCC – Skagit 3
Presiding: Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U
1. “The Constitution as the Aesthetic Representation of the People,” David Tse-chien Pa…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoReview of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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