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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSorry I’m so late to reply. I am unfamiliar with the first item above, and am surprising myself not to be familiar with the Gluck book, since I keep up with most of her work. I very much like the rest of the list. At risk of getting slightly off-topic, would you agree that fiction writers have written about 9/11 and its aftermaths more and…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have your week featured in a special CORE collection for National Poetry Month in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoApril is National Poetry Month and we’ll be celebrating it by featuring a collection of scholarship about poetry, poetics, and poets, as well as original poetry and poetry in translation on the homepage of the Commons. We accept articles, essays, poetry, presentations, visualizations, book chapters, monographs, you name it!
To participate, go to…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSir,
Thank you a lot for your interest in post 9/11 poetry, especially in Claudia Rankine. The primary literature I have chosen for our discussion is as follows,
1. An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson.
2. Poetry After 9/11; An Anthology of New York Poets by Denis Loy Johnson and Valerie…[Read more] -
John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI’m very interested, especially as US poetry in the second half of the past century seemed concerned with the private and now, with the provocations of 9/11 and Claudia Rankine, poets are being urged to become more public.
John Streamas
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Joydeep Chakraborty started the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would to start a discussion on post 9/11 American poetry. Interested members are reauested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of 21st century american poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute (Jun 19-25) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 – SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2017.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease follow this link to access all three, or see below.
<b>SITE SPECIFICS</b>
How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more] -
John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder that this Friday February 17, 2017 is the CFP deadline for “Situating Lyric” (Boston University, June 7-11, 2017): see http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric . Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Culler, Charles Altieri, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Dominique Combe, Eva Zettelmann, Klaus Hempfer, Haun Saussy, Stephen Owen, Robert von…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP for MLA 2018 in NYC: SITE SPECIFICS in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoSITE SPECIFICS (a roundtable)
How place matters and insists, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference. Focus upon NYC environs (widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts, environmental justice) or “climate controlled” spaces especially welcome.
150 word abstracts by march 1 2018 to jjcohen@gwu.edu
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFP: Legal Ecologies (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years agoFor this roundtable session on “Legal Ecologies,” a collaboration between the MLA Law and Humanities forum and Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities forum, proposals are invited for short, 8-10 minute papers. Participants may consider a wide range questions, including, but not limited to, the following: how does the notion of <i cla…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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