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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited White Noise and the Supermarket Aesthetic in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years agoDon DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) has been thoroughly examined as a work of postmodern fiction, with particular attention to media and simulacra, and from the perspective of science and technology, focusing on chemistry and toxicity. In this presentation, I look at the novel from an art historical perspective, considering the relations it bears to…[Read more]
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Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoThanks to all of you who came to Lizzie McNeill’s on Friday. It was a lovely evening and we will make sure we do it again.
I’ll be in touch soon (via all of the relevant fora) with other thoughts about how those of us with interests in language, linguistics and lang-lit can keep in touch and work together in future.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoHi everybody,
Looking forward to seeing some of you in Lizzie McNeill’s at 7.30.
I thought it worth letting you know that it’s really close to the Sheraton where the presidential address is from 6.45 to 7.30, so quite possible to go to both and to get from one to the other very quickly.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark started the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear all,
Happy new year from London! I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago!
Here is some info on our sessions and a new idea we have this year for an informal get-together for members of all forums/fora with an interest in language, linguistics or ‘lang-lit’ on Friday evening.
Theater as Communication and Where Do The Voices Com…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear all,
We are looking forward to seeing (some of) you in Chicago.
Before emailing you about the convention, here is a call for papers which I meant to pass on earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international,…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Call for Papers for Women & Language (posted on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers from Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University:
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, in…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA course (MA level) I taught at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, the research for which culminated in my book Freedom Readers (Notre Dame 2011).
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Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis paper links the medieval and early modern production of parchment and paper with modern electronics manufacturing, in order to examine some of the occluded ecological and political dimensions of archival study.
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Molly A. Martin started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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