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Maria Lujan Figueredo started the topic Call for Papers: Convocatoria Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoREVISTA CANADIENSE DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
by <u>Laura Kiernan</u>· in Announcements of General Interest
Proposals are sought in Spanish or English for one issue 2018 of the Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, to be devoted to the study of manifestations of literary suicides in Hispanic Literature (Spain and Spanish America). In t…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Convocatoria para enviar propuestas IV Jornadas de ALCESXXI Julio 4-8 de 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSEMINARIO DE TRABAJO Y ESTUDIO: “Acercamientos transnacionales y afectivos al estudio del género y la sexualidad en la literatura y la cultura visual contemporáneas en el Estado Español”
Fecha de envío de propuestas: 10 de agosto de 2016
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Alfredo Martínez-Expósito (m@unimelb.edu.au), Head of School of Languages and Lingu…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas uploaded the file: Cfps. NACS Colloquium to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017). The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016.
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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan) in the discussion
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M. Emma Ticio Quesada started the topic Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2017 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colega:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Volume on Unamuno in the discussion
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Dear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a s…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic CFP: New Readings of Carmen Laforet's Work Deadline Extension. in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography todochoa@trinity.edu by 3/20/15. You can find this…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro replied to the topic CFP, MLA 2016: Unamuno's Literary Legacy in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Regarding the MLA 2016 CFP “Miguel de Unamuno’s Literary Legacy,” please note that the updated deadline for submissions is 15 march 2015.
Thanks.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Urban Spaces in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoLandscape architecture and urban planning join aesthetics of design with the hard science of engineering. These areas foreground the complex influence of history and culture in the mapping and planning of social space. Since men have traditionally served as both prime architects and builders of metropolitan areas–designing plans and constructing…[Read more]
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