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Eve Salisbury replied to the topic Rethinking the Place of the Author in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe NCS letter written in response to the MLA proposal may be read by clicking on “files”; also available there is Seth Lerer’s paper, one of five in the session.
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Eve Salisbury started the topic Rethinking the Place of the Author in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years agoThis roundtable reopened a longstanding debate on the place of the author, the function of authorship, and the challenge of competing literatures in an expanding literary canon, one that seeks to include global Englishes, world literatures, and multiple perspectives (animal studies, ecological studies, disability studies, etc). Prompted in large…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi all,
The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15. The full CFP is here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf
Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:
o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the…[Read more] -
Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDisability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group will…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller posted an update in the group
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among…[Read more]
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Shannon Gayk posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: “Middle English Science”
Sponsored by the MLA Division on Middle English Literature (excluding
Chaucer)Send abstracts by March 5, 2014 to me at sgayk@indiana.edu and Erin Labbie at labbie@bgsu.edu.
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Jeffery Stoyanoff started the topic CFP: Framing Memory in Late Medieval English Narrative – Sp. Session MLA 2015 in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoHow do late medieval English narratives frame cultural memory? From the great famines at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the ongoing Hundred Years War, the twilight of the Middle Ages in England contains many memorable events itself, yet poets and writers during this period also draw on a fantasized English past – Arthurian legend – and…[Read more]
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Elaine Treharne uploaded the file: Old English Division Committee's Letter to MLA President to
Old English Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis three-page letter is the OE Committee’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Thank you for thinking through these issues in a powerful, well-formed reply to the myopic notion of merging O.E. and M.E. Divisions. John M. Hill
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Thank you for thinking through these issues in a powerful, well-formed reply to the myopic notion of merging O.E. and M.E. Divisions. John M. Hill
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This is an excellent response, and well argued. I hope that the MLA takes this matter and this response seriously. Thank you and all the rest of the authors for working on this letter.
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Terrific, thoughtful, compelling letter — thank you so much to the authors.
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