If you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2018, email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the other committee members before MLA. I will collate all suggestions and bring them forward to the committee at our meeting.

All best,

Jonathan

The election of a new Delegate Assembly representative for this forum is scheduled for the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]

Call for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures

The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled for the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]

CFP for 18th-Century Camp! (special issue Aphra Behn Online)
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University

In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic pheno…[Read more]

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
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
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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]