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Emily Friedman deposited Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoRevised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Introduction: Infrastructures of African American Print in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago“The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities.”
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Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic CfP ACLA seminar “Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance” in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoFor distribution among scholars in: Comparative Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Communications, Spanish/Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities.
Ana Luengo (San Francisco State U) and Alberto Ribas (Santa Clara University) are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal,…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAccording to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAccording to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] - Load More