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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy , by Zhinia Noorian, Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2023, 284 pp. €117.00, ISBN 9789087284121 in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months agoThe volume provides readers with close reading—a dimension that has been notably neglected in most analyses of Iʿtiṣāmī’s poetry. The significance of Noorian’s approach extends beyond such meticulous close readings; she equally emphasizes the contextualization of Iʿtiṣāmī’s career within the broader framework of modern Iran. In this manner, the v…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 20th-c. American Literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months agoRetropost, 2014: I Am Not at Rest https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-am-not-at-rest.html
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Libro de los pensamientos variables» como ejemplo de utopía y disidencia en el siglo XV in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years agoEl artículo analiza una curiosa obra titulada «Libro de los pensamientos variables», mezcla de prosa y verso y compuesta entre 1488 y 1492, que se conserva en un solo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (MSS/6442). Tras resumirse su contenido y sus principales inf luencias literarias, se intenta identificar a su posible autor como el…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 19th-c. American literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years agoSprings and Motives under Various Disguises: https://thishugestage.blogspot.com/2024/01/springs-and-motives-under-various.html
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Kit Yee Wong replied to the topic Open access special issue publication in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years agoApologies, the link to the WHOLE special issue (not just to the Introduction) is here:
https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/447/
Kit Yee Wong
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Kit Yee Wong started the topic Open access special issue publication in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years agoMembers of the group may be interested in this OA special issue publication: ‘The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine’ (Open Library of Humanities, 10:1, 2024).
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/11644/
Kit Yee Wong
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Steven Schroeder deposited the moon, not the finger, pointing in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThe moon, not the finger, pointing is a sort of memoir – a collection of 67 lyric poems that trace the course of a life from the Texas Panhandle through Chicago to China and back, with the window open “because everybody knows / by now there is a poem out there.” In Chicago, “a street musician / plays Vivaldi on violin not two blocks from / a kid s…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
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Chris A. Kramer deposited New Populism, New Conspiracism, and the Old Rhetoric of Purity in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis entry investigates the connections between neo-populism and neo-conspiracism in the USA. One central thread is the rhetoric of purity that fosters rigid dichotomies of thought about identities, contributing to both populism and conspiracism, eliciting a neologism: conspirapopulism.
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Can Anything Good Come from Sodom? A Feminist and Narrative Critique of Lot’s Daughters in Gen. 19:30-38,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.3 (2019): 334-342. in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years agoFor centuries, the story of Lot’s daughters in Genesis is one which has both abhorred and intrigued countless readers. Utilizing the hermeneutical lenses of Narrative and Feminist Criticism, this paper draws attention to overlooked details in the narrative. The story is also contrasted with that of the Levite’s Concubine in Judges 19. The res…[Read more]
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Garçonne, but Make Her Flapper. Using American Femininity Models to Re-Fashion the Romanian ‘Modern Girl’ in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis chapter examines the reception of the American ‘flapper’ model and how it was interpreted and translated into the interwar Romanian fashion and beauty discourse, into the 1920s model termed as the ‘modern girl’, as opposed to the ‘new woman’ of the 1930s. It follows the evolution of 1920s styles, including Jazz and Hollywood cultures, J…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception (translated into Persian by Mostafa Hosseini) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years agoویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر میپردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشتهای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخگرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception (translated into Persian by Mostafa Hosseini) in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years agoویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر میپردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشتهای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخگرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoCall For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 19th-c. American literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years agoRetropost, 2013: El Gran Viaje en El Último Mohicano https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/12/el-gran-viaje-en-el-ultimo-mohicano.html
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 20th-c. American Literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years agoHemingway, el gigante herido https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/12/hemingway-el-gigante-herido.html
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