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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Please consider submitting: A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Lit.? in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years agoPlease consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for the Comparative 20th-Century Studies Division (MLA 2015). in the forum
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 12 years agoPlease consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more] -
Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoFor the session on reading comparative literature, the division is really interested in the ways in which new directions in reading have influenced, affected or perhaps not affected comparative literature. Thanks
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]-
greetings! the texts below may be of interest:
1) Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India, 2013. ISBN 9789382993667. 538 pages, bibliography, index. h…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are c…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee replied to the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoYes, I really meant the 2015 MLA…
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]
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Jonathan Evans started the topic CFP From classroom to workplace (U. Portsmouth, 8 November 2014) in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years ago<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>14<sup>th</sup> Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>8 November 2014</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>From classroom to workplace</b></p>
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic PEHS Calls for Papers in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more] -
Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Doris Lessing Memorial in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThe Doris Lessing Society is organizing an event to mark the recent passing of Doris Lessing. It will be held on Saturday, 12 January at 8:45-10:00pm in Chicago G, Chicago Marriott hotel. All are welcome.
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Dennis Renner replied to the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI am writing from Portland, Oregon, hoping that you will be able to post or send attachments to me (dkrenner@gmail.com) from your Arthur Miller session. It is just a little too impractical for me to come to Chicago for your session, although it is of tremendous significance for a comparative project in which I am using Whitman’s thinking about the…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”>Conference Title:</p>
<p align=”center”>Translating Social Movements</p>
<p align=”center”><i>Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014</i></p>
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Proust and Space Proust e lo spazio to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis book collects some articles on a topic often ignored by proustian sholars: Proust and space. The volume is available on the link:
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Les registres linguistiques dans la Recherche du Temps Perdu. L'Affaire Dreyfus to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoMany are the works on the language of proustian characters and the unavoidable critical text by Gérard Genette, Proust et le langage indirect, has by now shown that the emergence of the characters’ deepest psychological dimension is necessarily expressed through an often swerving language: mistakes, omissions, shifts in meaning, and often an un…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]