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Jeremy Douglass replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoLiterary scholarship for book-loving non-academics? That is a really interesting (and quite broad) challenge. I like the idea of promoting literary criticism to a broad audience — whether through public reviews or through holiday gift-giving.
It occurs to me that the top social book platforms on the web may already have an approximate answer to…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Call for Nominations: THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHelp us acknowledge LGBTQ activism by academics; deadline extended to November 30.
THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This award serves not only to honor an LGBTQ academic activist every year, but also, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer act…[Read more] -
Sharon Shaloo replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoJames Woods would seem to fill your bill. HOW FICTION WORKS is the more “litcrit,” to invoke your categorization, and THE FUN STUFF has gestures to other arts/performance. Both are wonderfully readable.
Sharon Shaloo, Mass Center for the Book
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agonot a litcrit book, alas — still, thank you!
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Patrick Crapanzano replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear Alexandra,
I like the idea of your post. One book that comes to mind is A Brave Vessel, by Hobson Woodward. It doesn’t have the pop-currency potential as Will of the World, but it’s approachable for normal people interested in The Tempest and the Sea Venture’s wreck on Bermuda.
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoDear all,
could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it is we as a species actually do: perhaps w…[Read more]
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Linda Salem started the topic CFP Children's Literature Society at American Literature Association 2015 in the forum
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Children’s Literature Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798The Politics and Morality of Children’s Literature: From Left to Right
Authors use children’s literature to communicate their political and mor…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months ago2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkDate: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch O…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more]
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Leila Tarakji started the topic CFP: Global Halal Conference in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoGlobal Halal
An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the PermissibleFebruary 19-21, 2015
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at an e…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish / Portuguese) in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoAdvertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer…[Read more] -
Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
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Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months ago<header class=”entry-header”>
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection] in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSmall-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]
Proposals due September 1, 2014
In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic CFP: The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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