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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Alan,
You wrote this below. Are you in Latin America? Yes, very helpful. You know how long lit. reviews can take. You have done important work on the topic. I will stay in touch with you, Hania,and other on the Hybrid Research–I think it is the name–list. THANKS!
Glo
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Alan Jose replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello Gloria,
A large corpus-based rhetorical analysis of photography in war zones is an intimidating project. i would love to read it when you are done. You may know of these sources already, but here they are in case you find one or two useful to your project…
First, there is mass communication theory. Mass-media communication prompted…[Read more]
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Anne W. Anderson replied to the topic Orwell Rhetorical Analysis for News Photos in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoGloria — You might look for David Altheide and Chris Schneider’s Qualitative Media Analysis, which describes using ethnographic content analysis to examine various forms of news media in the manner you suggest, although it is focused more on the process of producing news than the product. The method might help you organize the work initially;…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic Orwell Rhetorical Analysis for News Photos in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoFraming the subject is something you can look at–the place and angle the camera is placed; what you decide to include or exclude from the frame. These factors and others can affect how the ‘story’ is told. And to add on Pamela’s comments, even within an orgnaization such as Al Jazeera, the visual is not presented the same. AJA is not the same…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks, Hania. I
It may be something that journalism people have more experience with…?Once again, your reply was most helpful.
Stay in touch here, please.Gloria
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Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoGloria, this is an extremely important topic. I did some analysis of how media chose to portray certain people, namely Arabs, for certain agendas. I based my research on postcolonial theory and the dehumanizing of the other. I looked at TV news reports, photos circulated via media organizations, films, etc…, even the ‘trophy’ photos of Abu G…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic OrwellianLiterary / Rhetorical Analysis Project in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Everybody!
A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis
I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Orwell Rhetorical Analysis for News Photos in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Everybody!
A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis
I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more] -
Louise Bethlehem started the topic Postdoctoral Fellowships "Apartheid–The Global Itinerary" in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoApartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The European Research Council (ERC) project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990” under the direction of Dr. Louise Bethlehem (English & The Progr…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi Dennis,
I would love to participate of this workshop, but unfortunately I cannot go to Ohio at this time. Please, keep us informed about any other similar event in the east coast. Due to our big load of work in the last week of classes, Marion and I were not able to put together a panel for Toronto. I still believe we can do something to make…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Reminder: Pls. cast your vote: MLA Resolution 2014-1 in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.
You can read the MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh
Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty started the topic Nation and Its Discontents: South Asian Review Special Issue 2014 in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHow do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I receive these posts as a member of this discussion group in my capacity as a faculty member of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Since January 2014, I have assumed the directorship of ADFL and in that new capacity I write to announce a workshop connected with the topic Selma and Marion are discussing. At the ADFL s…[Read more]
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Marion Gehlker replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHi Selma,
I’d be interested. What topics did you have in mind? I teach German and include literature at all levels of language instruction.
Thanks,
Marion
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a round table discussing new ways/approaches and successfull strategies integrating the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new, however a lot has been changing in this particular “field”. If interested, please, contact me as soon as you can, since the deadline for submissions is approaching. The convention…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Katrina (CFP) Repost in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers
Special Issue: Katrina – A Decade Afterthe minnesota review, a journal of creative and critical writing, invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Katrina – A Decade After” to be guest edited by Gaurav Desai (English/African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University). Our aim is to reflect on the hurricane, the measure…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Katrina — A Decade After (CFP) in the forum
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Shuchi Kapila replied to the topic Post-memory in South Asia in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoRevised call:
I would like to organize a special session at the MLA in Vancouver on the ‘postmemory in South Asia.’ Please write to kapilas@grinnell.edu with a 250 word abstract by March 25 if interested.
Some of the questions we might address are:
How do we describe the study of post-memory, in Marianne Hirsch’s terms, or ‘post-a…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Filippo Menozzi started the topic New Publication in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear Group Members
I’d like to announce a new publication that could be of interest. Thank you!
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415735650/
Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance
This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and…[Read more]
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