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Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Old English Literature and Feminist Theory: A State of the Field in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoFeminist and gender scholars working in Anglo-Saxon studies in the past ten years have been asking new and important questions of a variety of Old English and Anglo-Latin texts. Most crucially, this interdisciplinary new work redefines the historiographical paradigms of Anglo-Saxon cultural production and reception so that women must now be…[Read more]
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Mary Dockray-Miller deposited The Middle English Verse of Boston Public Library MS 124 in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAbstract: This short edition makes available for the first time three Middle English verse prayers to Christ from the Mohun Hours, a fourteenth-century Book of Hours held by the Boston Public Library (MS 124). Late medieval Books of Hours have received substantial recent critical attention as expressions of devotional literacy practiced mainly by…[Read more]
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Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Historical sources of the Middle English verse life of St. AEthelthryth in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoHistorical source study of the last text in the composite manuscript Lon- don, BL Cotton Faustina B.iii can shed light on the transmission and use of chronicle texts and their translations in late medieval England. The author of the Middle English verse Life of St. Æthelthryth used John Trevisa’s English translation of Ranulf Higden’s Poly…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoSir,
I am quite worried about your silence, and would be greatly obliged if you send some response, for you see how ardent I am in writing some research paper in collaboration with you.
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selisker deposited “Simply by Reacting?”: The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man’s Automata in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis essay considers Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison’s other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible Man, the essay links the political concerns of the novel with…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoPlease, respond to my last correspondence quickly. I am yearning intensely for a response.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoYou are indeed right to point out the illegitimacy of categorising 9/11 poems into ‘early’ and ‘late’. In making such distinction I was partly guided by Introduction to Literature After 9/11 by Ann Keniston and Jeanne Quinn, which makes a distinction between ‘earliest’ and ‘later’ 9/11 poems. But now I understand that such distinction is not quite…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited “At Last Everyone Had Something to Talk About”: Gloria’s War in Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoNoticeably absent from much of the criticism on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned is an examination of Gloria Patch and her role in Fitzgerald’s treatment of war. Fitzgerald offers a fascinating and timely portrait of a young wife dealing with war and remembrance from multiple perspectives, spanning from her Midwestern roots to her a…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Designed to Amuse: Hemingway’s The Torrents of Spring and Intertextual Comedy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoEasily the least-mentioned (and read) of Ernest Hemingway’s works (proven by its lack of critical attention), The Torrents of Spring merits rereading for its intertextual play. Hemingway’s use of embedded author’s notes throughout the text guides readers to a more fully aware young writer who offers critiques of composition, authorship, pri…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoI think the proposal is impressive, though I am concerned about the scale of the period covered. Is it possible to speak of “early” and “late” reactions to an event that happened less than sixteen years ago? I see that the anthology was published in 2002, the year following 9/11. I had a poem in the Poets Against War website in 2003, and looking…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Excuse the Preface: Hemingway’s Introductions for Other Writers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoOver the course of his career Ernest Hemingway wrote introductions for a number of writers. These pieces have been largely forgotten, but study and analysis of Hemingway’s introductions offers additional insight into the well-known author. The process of creating and marketing these pieces allowed Hemingway to manipulate and refine his public p…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThough already famous, wealthy, and squarely established as a popular chronicler of the early
twentieth century, humorist Ring Lardner’s foray into a serious literary career with Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publishing Company is best characterized as an act of authorial resistance. Rather than evolve into
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAre you busy at present? I would be greatly obliged if you offer scholarly feedbacks on my research-proposal, and answer the questions of my last correspondence as soon as possible.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI have sent my research proposal to the e-mail address you gave me in your last correspondence.Please, inform me whether you have got it, and I would be greatly obliged if you offer your valuable feedbacks on it.
Now, let’s turn to our ongoing discussion. So far as my knowledge is concerned, confessional poets (for example, Sylvia Plath) are…[Read more] -
Allison Levy deposited “Strange Bedfellows,” Introduction to Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion and Punishment in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoEmphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects…[Read more]
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Allison Levy deposited Sesso nel Rinascimento in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoQuesto volume propone un discorso critico sulla sessualità e sulla cultura visiva dell’Italia rinascimentale. I saggi raccolti tentano di fare luce su una serie di zone d’ombra, dando spazio a tutte quelle pratiche o preferenze considerate in genere come alternative o anomalie, e a un’ampia varietà di scenari “scandalosi”. Particolare attenzione…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI would love to see your proposal. My email address is <streamas@wsu.edu>, and you may just send it that way if you’d prefer. We’ve avoided the word “confessional,” and I think that’s wise. I don’t think Gluck is a conventionally confessional poet, yet she’s less “historical” and public than, say, the Lowell of the 1960s. Because several new books…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI did not respond to your answer quickly because I thought you were busy with the study of An Eye For An Eye. You are, definitely, right in assuming that the subject position of the speaker in October makes him/her incapable of making any political comments. But it also enables him/her to contemplate on post-traumatic self and human life in its…[Read more]
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Peter Schmidt deposited “’Truth so mazed’: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoTreats the meaning of the phrase quoted in the title for Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and, especially, “The Bear.” Published in Cambridge UP’s anthology of new essays, Faulkner in Context, edited John Matthews, 2015.
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Peter Schmidt deposited William Carlos Review-essay of William Carlos Williams, _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_. Compiled and Edited by Jonathan Cohen. Foreword by Julio Marzán. New York: New Directions, 2011. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAll of William Carlos Williams’ translations from the Spanish have been gathered and expertly edited by Jonathan Cohen. Williams’ translations were collaborative and a key factor in his growth during three different phases of his career: during World War I and his crucial break-through as an artist; during the 1930s, inspired by the Spanish…[Read more]
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