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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 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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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP MLA 2018– Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Update – Emerson society awards announcement in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoA reminder of the April 1st deadline for the Ralph Waldo Emerson society’s three awards. Information is pasted below. Thanks for your assistance in circulating this announcement.
<p class=”xmsonormal” align=”center”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.</p>
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Matthew Davis deposited “As Above, So Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years agoWith thirty-seven named locations, the Digby Mary Magdalene is rightfully considered to require the most elaborate staging of the Middle English dramatic corpus. In this article, I re-examine the manuscript to find evidence of how the various locations in the play can be grouped into what I term staging complexes. Beginning with the division of…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Dickens Performs Dickens in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 9 years agoOn performativity of Dickens as author in his prefaces
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American 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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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American 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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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Global Literature and Technology," Special Session for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years agoDetails:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York CityPlease consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”
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Digital media pose a challenge…[Read more] -
Esther Jones started the topic Position Announcement: Health Humanities & Race, Clark University, Worcester MA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoTeaching Fellowship in Health Humanities and Race
CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MA. Health Humanities and Race. Renewable Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2017. The successful applicant will teach three courses the first year and four in the second year, beginning undergraduate to graduate level; give one public lecture based o…[Read more] -
Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Sharon Lois Mazer replied to the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years agoKia ora, Michael. Just a quick question: Will you be posting a longer CFP, or can I push on with this in mind?
Best
Sharon
Dr Sharon Mazer
Associate Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies
Auckland University of Technology
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Michael Schinasi started the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years agoNational Theaters Around the Globe
Special Session
Any aspect of worldwide National Theaters (the institution usually manifest in buildings; not dramatic literatures). All periods: history, ideology, relation to culture industry, etc. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2017; Michael Schinasi (schinasim@ecu.edu). -
David Rodriguez-Solas started the topic CFP: Marginality in Iberian Theater, MLA 2018 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years ago
Call For Papers: Marginality in Iberian Theater (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
Proposals should address the topic of marginality in Iberian drama and performance from the 16th to the 21st centuries. 250 word abstract by 1 March 2017; David Rodríguez-Solás (dsolas@umass.edu); Esther Fernández (ef14@rice.edu) -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Michael Bérubé deposited Why Teach Literature? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoContribution to “Why Teach Literature?” Program arranged by the forum TM The Teaching of Literature. Gaurav G. Desai, Tulane U, presiding.
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