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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMy paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Introduction to Autobiography syllabus (online course) in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSyllabus for a general education introduction to autobiography course taught entirely online.
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society A…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more] -
Ruby Tapia posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago2017 MLA Panels Sponsored by the Forum on Race and Ethnicity Studies
Session 28. 05-JAN-17. Writing (against) the Prison, 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Franklin 13, Philadelphia Marriott.
Presiding: Ruby Tapia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “The Life of Paper: Imprisoned,” Sharon Luk, Univ. of Oregon
2. “You (Shall) Have the Body: Ghostly…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoNeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizer:
Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University
A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
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Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State UniversityRace Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” Have a look at t…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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