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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWell, not very much activity here in Philos. & Lit. – 1400+ members! – Perhaps TRUMP’s astounding Victory in the Electoral College will provide an impetus for more reflection on the state of the state >> Torture being quite acceptable to the Pres.-Elect….
I have uploaded my transl. of IN THE PENAL Colony to the Kafka group and anyone and…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'Culture(s) of Corruption': Media Representations and Anxieties in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article analyzes media representations of the anti-corruption movement in India led by Anna Hazare in 2011
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 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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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefuturesThe fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures
The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more] -
Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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Philip Nel started the topic Philip Nel, MLA Children's & YA Lit Forum Executive Committee Candidate in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGreetings!
The MLA tells me that this is the place to indicate my qualifications for the Executive Committee of the Children’s & YA Lit Forum. So —
If elected, I see my role as being an advocate for scholarship on children’s and young adult literature and culture. I would seek to maximize not only the number of children’s and YA lit panels at…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMy paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]
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Charles A. Huttar deposited The Art of Detection in a World of Change: "The Silver Chair" and Spenser Revisited in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoC. S. Lewis’s fourth Narnian chronicle is considered as detective fiction, illustrating principles for solving a murder mystery, especially alertness to the difference between appearance and reality. The human protagonists nearly fail through carelessness, overconfidence, and forgetfulness, combined with the deceit and magic of a shape-shifting v…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an: Practice, Realization and Teaching in the thought of Chang Chiu-ch'eng in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAn overview of Zhang Jiucheng’s 張九成 (1092-1159) thought on mind-cultivation and Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 critique of Zhang and other Buddho-Confucians of the early Southern Song dynasty (1126-1279).
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