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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years ago-Executive Committee membership transition-
Happy New MLA Year, everyone!
With the conclusion of the conference and the start of the next cycle in the MLA calendar, we’d like to thank outgoing members of the Executive Committee Melek Ortabasi (Simon Fraser University) and Michael Emmerich (UCLA) for their important and pioneering work on the…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoFor those of you planning to be at the MLA-
This year there is a collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums. Paired with this is the companion session “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media,” which the LLC Japanese since 1900…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago賀 春
謹んで新年のお慶びを申し上げます
本年が昨年にも増した良き年となりますよう、
皆様のご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。LLC Japanese since 1900の執行委員一同
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Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear All,
An executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2018, 1:45-3:00 p.m., room Madison 4, in the Sheraton New York Times Square.
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
Best,
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Monika Dix posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoI just received notification that I was elected to the executive committee of the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Thanks to everyone who supported my nomination. Since this is last minute, I am not sure if I will be able to make it to NY, but I will try my best. Do we have a LLC Japanese to 1900 business meeting scheduled?
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Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama’s “China Doll” (in Japanese) in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis is an analysis of Terayama Shūji’s 1981 film “Shanhai ijin shōkan,” a French co-production which was marketed in the Anglosphere as “China Doll” and in France as “Les Fruits de la passion,” invoking both Ōshima Nagisa’s 1978 “L’Empire de la passion” (the sequel to his notorious “Empire of the Senses” / “L’Empire des sens,” 1976) as well as Ro…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited History of Scholarship Project (MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools) in the group
MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools Group on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoObjective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.
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Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAbstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Working in pre-20th c. Children's Literature? in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAdd your name to a growing list of international scholars on the subject!
We are in the process of compiling a list of scholars, curators, and collectors who work in pre-twentieth century children’s literature and related fields. We are defining “children’s literature” broadly to include manuscript materials (including children’s writing),…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited The Invention of Chinese Buddhist Poetry: Poet-Monks in Late Medieval China (c. 760–960 CE) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis dissertation presents an alternative history of late medieval literature, one which traces the development of Chinese Buddhist poetry into a fully autonomous tradition. It does so through a careful study of the works of poet-monks in the late medieval period (760–960). These poet-monks established a tradition of elite Buddhist poetry in c…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited The Invention of Chinese Buddhist Poetry: Poet-monks in Late Medieval China (c. 760-960 CE) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis dissertation presents an alternative history of late medieval literature, one which traces the development of Chinese Buddhist poetry into a fully autonomous tradition. It does so through a careful study of the works of poet-monks in the late medieval period (760–960). These poet-monks established a tradition of elite Buddhist poetry in c…[Read more]
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