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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver started the topic MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCalls for papers have been published for the Scottish Literature Discussion Group’s sessions at the 130th MLA Convention in Vancouver, 8th -11th January 2015. There are two sessions, as follows. Both are listed in the MLA’s calls for papers. We welcome abstracts, or please contact us with any enquiries.
1. Discussion Group in Scottish…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver started the topic Opening the Commons forum on Scottish Literature. . . in the forum
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe forum provides a place where we can discuss what’s happening in Scottish literature. Do you have anything to share? Here’s your chance . . .
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
The English Romantic Period on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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Maureen Noelle McLane posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTO: Romanticists and Friends of:
There will be FOUR panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the Division on the English Romantic Period at the upcoming MLA: MARK YOUR CALENDARS and support Romanticism!
Please do attend: in the middle of various MLA consolidation pushes (see the Restoration and late-18th C. Divisional duress), it is important…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon posted an update in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoOTHER COGNITIVE PANELS at 2014 MLA
51. Literature and Affordances: Rhetoric, Perception, Design
Thursday, 9 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chicago F, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Julian D. Yates, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
1. “Furnitura: Disclosing Shakespearean Affordances,” Julia Reinhard Lupton, Univ. of California, Irvine
2. “The E…[Read more] -
Julien Jacques Simon posted an update in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoPANELS at 2014 MLA
22. Cognitive Approaches to Film
Thursday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chicago X, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Presiding: Julien Jacques Simon, Indiana Univ. East
1. “Seeing Is Not Believing: How Cognitive Science Can Redeem Popular Film,” Jennifer M. William, P…[Read more]
