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Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic New Open Access Publication: Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries (2016) in the discussion
Netherlandic Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoYou may be interested in the following Open Access publication, based on papers from the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS)
Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000
Jane Fenoulhet; Gerdi Quist and Ulrich Tiedau (eds.) | May 2016
About the book
All countries, regions and…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries, vol. 40, no. 2 (June 2016) in the discussion
Netherlandic Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoDutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
Volume 40, Issue 2, 2016Special Issue: Coping with crisis
Guest edited by Raingard Esser and Marijke Meijer Dreeshttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydtc20/40/2
Editorial
Coping with crisis: an introduction
Raingard Esser & Marijke Meijer DreesArticles
‘Ofter gheen water op en hadde ghe…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Dutch Session at RSA2017 Conference in the discussion
Netherlandic Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR PROPOSALS
Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, Chicago, Illinois (USA)30 March – 1 April 2017
Proposed panel: Transnational Literary Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries
Organized by Jan Bloemendal (Huygens Institute) and James Parente (University of Minnesota)
16th- and 17th-century Netherlandic literature, in t…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
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Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Laura Green deposited Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness* and Modernist Fictions of Identity in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoVirginia Woolf’s well known distaste for the generic and aesthetic instability of Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) finds echoes in more recent responses, even as the novel remains an anchor of a lesbian literary canon. I demonstrate that Hall’s novel does indeed exhibit generic and psychological instability, as a Victo…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoJohn Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited ENGL 4864: History and Theory of the Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis syllabus delineates the readings and assignments for an advanced undergraduate course on the history and theory of the novel taught in fall 2014 at the University of Georgia.
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic MLA2017: Boundary conditions in Netherlandish Literature, Language and Culture in the discussion
Netherlandic Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBoundary Conditions in Netherlandish Literature, Language and Culture
5–8 January 2017, Philadelphia
A session organized by the MLA Dutch Forum
Chair: Johannes Burgers (Queensborough Community College, NY)
Negotiating Intergenerational cultural Boundaries in Moroccan-Dutch Writing
Ahmed Idrissi Alami (Purdue University)Recent decades have w…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Boundary Conditions in Netherlandish Literature, Language & Culture (MLA17) in the discussion
Netherlandic Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for papers
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN NETHERLANDISH
LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE5–8 January 2017, Philadelphia
Sessions organized by the MLA Dutch ForumAt the 2017 convention of the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA Dutch Forum will organize one or more sessions on the 2017 MLA Presidential theme ‘Boundary Con…[Read more]
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