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Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] -
Bradley Irish deposited Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492) in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoBL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage…[Read more]
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Kent Cartwright deposited Humanist Reading and Interpretation in Early Elizabethan Morality Drama in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThis essay argues that humanist reading practices, methods of analysis, and aesthetics transformed traditional morality drama in the 1560s and 1570s in a way that accounts for the form’s resurgence. The essay looks closely at Ulpian Fulwell’s “Like Will to Like” (1568), William Wager’s “The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art” (1569) and…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: RiDE / Digital Shakespeare
William Shakespeare holds a unique position within education: few other cultural entities can claim to match the range of contact across ages, disciplines and countries that his work, life and cultural impact have produced. The diversity of pedagogical approaches to Shakespeare, therefore, is enormous, a diversity…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoGood Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoImaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a “Bewick” and one for Dickens. https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/home/miscellany/imaging-wood-blocks
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast, William Dunlap’s Andre´, John Augustus Stone’s Metamora, and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator, I demonstrat…[Read more]
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