Kevin Curran
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOne of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOne of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOne of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOne of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Visualizing Justice" (Literature & Law Conference; Oct. 27-28, 2017) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference – Visualizing Justice
Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Dale Barleben – dbarleben@jjay.cuny.edu
When: Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Where: John Jay College (CUNY) – (located on the upper-west side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)This conference brings…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear all,
The Law and the Humanities Forum will be sponsoring two panels at next year’s MLA convention in New York City (January 4-7, 2018). We hope that you will consider submitting proposals for the following panels:
Law, Literature, and Emotion
How do imaginative texts explore intersections between law and emotion? Crimes of passion,…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR LEAR SEMINAR in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoTHE DEADLINE FOR THE NEH SUMMER SEMINAR ON KING LEAR DIRECTED BY RICHARD STRIER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS SUMMER (JULY 10-28) IS MARCH 1. NON-TENURE TRACK AS WELL AS TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTORS ARE WELCOME TO APPLY. STIPEND IS $2700. DETAILS ON THE SEMINAR AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS CAN BE FOUND AT: [Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR LEAR SEMINAR in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”background: white;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;”>DEAR FOLKS,</span></p>
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Richard A. Strier started the topic DEADLINE FOR LEAR SEMINAR APPROACHING in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDEAR FOLKS,
THE DEADLINE FOR THE NEH SUMMER SEMINAR ON KING LEAR DIRECTED BY RICHARD STRIER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS SUMMER (JULY 10-28) IS MARCH 1. NON-TENURE TRACK AS WELL AS TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK INSTRUCTORS ARE WELCOME TO APPLY. STIPEND IS $2700. DETAILS ON THE SEMINAR AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS CAN BE FOUND AT:
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/07/duquesne-university-press-shut-down-later-year
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Steve Dolph started the topic MLA Off-Site Event: Out/Lines in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe expansive contours of the Iberian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, expressed in the imperial motto plus ultra or “further beyond,” can at times obscure the aporias (of ecologies, ethnicities, and epistemologies) at its fringes. Recent scholarship on the material cultures, political economies, and discourses of gender of imperial Spain has…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic CFP UPDATE: "Law and Literature from the Global South"–DEADLINE EXTENDED in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED (January 15, 2017)
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): DE…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron replied to the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPlease excuse that; I’ve just now been made aware of your post and of the problem.
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/account/signup/?next=/spenseronline/welcome/
Will that work better? Thanks for your interest, and sorry I only this minute received word of the problem.
AEBC
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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E. Jane Hedley replied to the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture in the discussion
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI have had no luck using the link provided above to book for this year’s Spenser Society luncheon. Please advise.
Jane Hedley
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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