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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJust a teaser for now, the articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th:
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Pynchon and Wittgenstein: ethics, relativism and philosophical methodology in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis piece presents a tripartite analysis of the relationship between the philosophical works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the novels of Thomas Pynchon. This is broadly structured around three schools of Wittgenstein scholarship identified by Guy Kahane et al. as the Orthodox Tractatus, the New Wittgenstein, and several strands of the Orthodox…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Uncovering the Platonic in Kafka in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoKafka’s Romanticism/Platonism is hidden underneath the covers. In this article I show how better translations can help the reader take the covers off the bed. Whether it be K.’s meeting with Buergel in the Castle or with the Josef K.’s meeting with the Priest in The Trial,
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Hania Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Robert Victor Wess deposited A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke's Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General in the group
TM Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoReaders of KB Journal likely know Richard McKeon mainly through his essays on rhetoric and his relationship to Kenneth Burke. But McKeon was first and foremost a philosopher who came to rhetoric in mid-career, so that his work is a philosophical path to and defense of rhetoric. This path, moreover, precisely because of its philosophical depth,…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Natalie Crohn Schmitt deposited Dissimulation in the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoCommedia dell’Arte was the most influential and widespread theatre movement in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe. A considerable part of its popularity can be accounted for by its comic representation of stressful occurrences within everyday life in early modern Europe, including in its representation of the period’s widespread dis…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 ACLA: Exotic Europe (deadline 09/23) in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoProposal submissions at: http://www.acla.org/seminar/exotic-europe
This seminar will discuss and compare a variety of cultures of Europe beyond the “usual suspects” of Central and Western Europe that have shaped its dominant discourse and carried off most of the international literary prizes.
Culturally, the quilt of Europe is vast and exo…[Read more]
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Martha Nell Smith started the topic Queer Panels, GLQ Caucus & Reception for MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCheck out and join us for these exciting sessions and at the GLQ Caucus & Reception!!!
Thursday, 7 January
Queer Proximities 1:45–3:00 p.m. – Selected for inclusion in the Presidential Theme, “Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, Future”
Friday, 8 January
Vaqueeras/os 10:15–11:30 a.m.
Saturday, 9 January
Queer Crips ac…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic CFP: Queer Theory in French in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
17 March – 20 March 2016SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2015
Although French-language theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Monique Wittig have been fundamental in thinking about queer theory in English, queer theory’s…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA Congress in Vienna; Committee on Comparative Queer/Gender Studies in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago<u>Call</u> <u>for</u> <u>Abstracts</u>
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Todd W. Reeser started the topic CFP: Doing the Body in the 21st Century, U of Pittsburgh in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoBodies can be collective, material, medicalized, biological, sexual, queer, trans, normative, political, racial, transnational, ecological, historical, useful, global, affective, gendered, disabled, surveilled, controlled, subjected, transformed, enhanced, engineered, empowered, organized, managed, discursive, aesthetic, translated, theorized,…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections (with literature, aesthetics, philosophy, etc.)
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12,…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic Proposed Panel Abstracts: "Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics" in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoBelow are the abstracts for the proposed MLA 2016 Special Session Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics.
David Román (University of Southern California) will serve as respondent to the following three panelists.
Octavio R. Gonzalez (Wellesley College), “The ACT UP Boston Archive: the Bio-Politics of Early Clinical Trials for AIDS Tr…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFEssays – MLA Volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic MLA 2016 Panel: Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the MLA 2016 panel, “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” will be posted here prior to the convention.
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Matt Brim started the topic CFP: Queer Methods http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue
QUEER METHODS
Guest Editors:
Amin Ghaziani, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Matt Brim, Associate Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Queer Studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars…[Read more]
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Thomas F. Shannon started the topic New Work in Language Theory in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory solicits papers focussing on aspects of linguistics that contribute to trends in language theory. Paper proposals of 250-300 words by 23 March 2015 to Thomas F. Shannon (tshannon@berkeley.edu).
Best regards,
TFS (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Language Theory)
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Thomas F. Shannon started the topic MLA 2016 Call for Papers: Language Theory and Description in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory seeks presentations exploring interdigitations of language theory and linguistic description. Please submit paper proposals of 250-300 words by 24 March 2015 to Thomas F. Shannon (tshannon@berkeley.edu).
Best regards,
TFS (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Language Theory)
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