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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agon 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 without a peopl…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society An…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting, NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissanc in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at th…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Gregory Fenton started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017 – Deadline Today, Sept 23 in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoI’m co-organizing a seminar on Asian American and Asian Canadian topics for next year’s ACLA meeting in Utrecht. I’m sure that the conversations we are envisioning would be of interest to members of this forum! My apologies for a last minute posting, but if you have an abstract ready to submit, the ACLA website will accept proposals to our semin…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017, "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)
Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysi…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoREVISED WELCOME:
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature (RBL) group. NOTE: We are calling for formation of a panel on RBL at next MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust B…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: Crossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide Seminar at ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 2017 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCrossing the Anglo-Hispanic Divide: Modernist Women Writers and Artists beyond Frontiers
A Seminar at ACLA 2017 (6th-9th July, Utrecht)
Organizers: Esther Sánchez-Pardo (esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es) & Renée Silverman (silvermr@fiu.edu)
Proposals due Sept. 23, 2016
Apply online: http://www.acla.org/crossing-anglo-hispanic-divide-mode…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCertainly! We can also include Northern Mexico’s mining and steel areas.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Maria Lujan Figueredo replied to the topic News to share? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello,
Thank you for this message. I recently won an award and I would like to have this news shared with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter to be included in the September issue!
Professor Maria Figueredo wins 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching Award
(Full-Time Faculty Category)
This prestigious award is an important recognit…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic CfP: Worlding Minor/Small Literatures in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe concept of “minor/small literatures” is Eurocentric, provincial, and regional not only because it has been defined along the lines of European standards, such as the geopolitics of small nations, the sociolinguistics of minority languages, and the aesthetics of revolutionary modernism, but also due to its identification with the lit…[Read more]
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