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Over 2000 yellowback covers: single volumes of popular fiction published in Britain during the 19th century.

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Do people approve of this as an avatar for our GS Prose Fiction forum?

I thought this allusion to Don Quixote might work because it also gets in a Modernist ref (with the Picasso) as well as contemporary fiction. Plus it is slightly amusing.

The first English use of the term “prose fiction” appears to occur in Schlegel’s Lectures on the Hi…[Read more]

49. We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction

Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of S…[Read more]

“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)

Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysi…[Read more]

Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature (RBL) group.  NOTE:  We are calling for formation of a panel on RBL at next MLA convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here a…[Read more]

Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]

Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]

Our Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists Series

Beginning Friday, Au…[Read more]

Of interest to the group for interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society:

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]