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Brandon Taylor deposited The Ideological Train to Globalization: Bong Joon-ho's The Host and Snowpiercer in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis paper analyzes Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer and how it relates to a new paradigm of trans-national blockbusters. I analyze the film using a cultural materialist lens with respect to the filmmaker’s previous films and their outward (international) trajectory. This methodology highlights a larger trend that we are now seeing with large-scale…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic MLA 2017 Modern Japanese Panels: Dates and Times in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoWe are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.
311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.
1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited El dantisme de Manuel de Montoliu in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn the year 1903 Manuel de Montoliu published the first Catalan version, in prose and poetry, of “La Vida Nova”, which meant an important stage within the history of pre-Raphaelitism and modernism in Catalonia. In this article the first Dantesque influences in the poetic production of the translator will be detected, the stage of preparation and…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic MLA Panel Announcement in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPlease note the following panel since it will be of interest to some of you.
“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott
Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!
Monika Dix
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Monika Dix replied to the topic MLA 2017 Premodern Japan Panels: Times & Dates in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPlease note the following panel since it will be of interest to some of you.
“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott
Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!
Monika Dix
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic MLA 2017 Premodern Japan Panels: Times & Dates in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHello all!
Information about the schedule for MLA 2017 has begun to circulate. I’ll post the titles, dates, and times for the Premodern Japan panels here. Hope you’ll join us!
#164 “Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere” Thursday 1/5, 7:00-8:15pm, 406 Marriott
#238 “Soundscapes of Premodern Japan” Friday 1/6, 10:15-, 406 Marriott
Also, if you have…[Read more]
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Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited The blurring of boundaries: images of abjection as the terrorist and the reel Arab intersect in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agon her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic CFP Music and Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals exploring the intersection of music and Japanese literature (broadly interpreted) from the Meiji period onwards. Proposals may engage with a variety of critical approaches, including interrogations of the relationship of poetry and music as mutually contingent arts; music and literary form; musico-literary polyglossia or po…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic Sonding the Premodern Sinoshpere (a second CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years ago<u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>
How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.
Longer abstract:
Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Sonding the Premodern Sinoshpere (a second CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Japan to 1900 Division of the MLA invites you to submit paper proposals for either of the following panel, which we are planning for the January 2017 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Philadelphia.
Collaborative Session (with the East Asia forum):
Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere
How should we understand the…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoSoundscapes in Premodern Japan (guaranteed panel) CFP
How do sound imaginaries in literature (the racket of the street and the warbling of birds) represent space? Who hears, listens in, or overhears, and what power do they enjoy in this sonic culture? What constitutes a sacred sound or its profane or transgressive counterpart? What role is…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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