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Elena Garcia-Martin deposited “Gender, Race and Interculturalism in TNT-El Vacie’s Romani Fuenteovejuna.” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper addresses the performance of Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna undertaken by TNT-El Vacie (Territorio de Nuevos Tiempos), a theater company from Seville, Spain. I Consider how Antonio Álamo’s adaptation, Pepa Gamboa’s direction, and the staging of El Vacie, a company comprised exclusively of non-professional Roma women, constitutes a site o…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeares in World Markets and Archives: An Introduction to the Special Issue in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoShakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAs an NYC local, I’d like to recommend the following around the convention area (if you’re looking for recommendations beyond a mile radius of the convention, particularly in Brooklyn, send me a message here @terrainsvagues):
BAR: Valhalla NYC, for a really good selection of craft beers. It’s a 10-minute walk west from the Sheraton along 53rd…[Read more]
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Megan Peiser posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, All,
I wanted to introduce myself, as you’ll see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall. I encourage you to wander over to my profile and check out more details there, or follow me on Twitter at @MeganPeiser.I am a digital bibliographer and book historian focused on eighteenth-century literature,…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Early Modern English Historiography: Providentialism versus New History. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoEarly Modern English historiography had a multi-layered bipolar constitution. Providentialism, which had dominated Medieval English thought, maintained that historical events processed according to God’s divine plan. However, with the revival and reinterpretation of Classical texts, a new and quite opposite way of thinking emerged, which was d…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited The ‘Gothic’ in Hamlet: The Role of the Macabre in Creating Cathartic Horror. in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoBuilding on Elizabethan dramatic conventions and religious debates about ghosts, Hamlet employs linguistic and dramatic means to chill its audience. Audio-visual means, along with the manner of entrances and exits, are used in order to horrify the audience. These create a fluctuation between belief and disbelief towards the macabre elements in the…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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