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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic 2021 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce that Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler is the winner of the 2021 Teaching Literature Book Award.
The Teaching Literature Book Award is an international prize for the best book on teaching literature at the college level. The award is…[Read more]
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDescribes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Critical Making for Humanist Scholarship in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoFall 2021, fully online, asynchronous course: Critical making is a practice of making as scholarship, grounded in the humanities, that interweaves design, function, and theory towards born-digital scholarly practice. Engaging in scholarly communication through digital platforms demands attention to code, software, and hardware. This course…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Thinking with Austen: Literature, Philosophy, and Anne Elliot’s Inner World in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay discusses pedagogical approaches to teaching Austen’s Persuasion as a novel situated at the intersection of literature and philosophy. It focuses on how Persuasion takes up, talks back to, and helps illuminate classic philosophical questions about personhood, sociality, ethics, consciousness, and the space of inner life. It discusses c…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic Disability accommodations for authors in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI’m an MLA member who works on intersections between 19th-century literature, philosophy, and music. I’m reaching out to this group with a question: do you know of any academic presses that are willing to make accommodations for disabled authors?
My situation is that I’m a disabled independent scholar (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014) who has…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited Engaging Students: Using the MLA International Bibliography to Teach the Research Process in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoGet tips on using the MLA International Bibliography to teach scholarly concepts and analytical skills.
For more than a hundred years the Modern Language Association, creator of the MLA International Bibliography, has worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature. As part of that mission, the MLA has developed an online…[Read more]
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography, Charleston Library Conference, Nov. 2020 in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature, but did you know that the MLAIB can be brought into the classroom and used as an effective teaching tool as well? Learn how the most powerful research tool in the humanities is being used in the virtual classroom to engage…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Weird Sex: Teleny and the History of Sexuality in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn this article, I argue that that a close examination of the most sexually explicit scenes in the anonymous gay pornographic novel Teleny (1893) reveals that they do not anticipate the bourgeois, individualistic liberal gay subject described by Michel Foucault, but are instead more closely related to the cosmic horrors found in the genre of weird…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited E.M. Forster, the Clapham Sect, and the Secular Public Sphere in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCritics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]
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