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John Garrison started the topic CFP: Forum Guaranteed Sessions for MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIf you’re thinking of attending the MLA convention next year in Toronto, please consider submitting an abstract for one of these sessions sponsored by the Renaissance and Early Modern Forum:
1. Gendered Vengeance
Exploring depictions of revenge that reinforce or question assumptions about gender, this guaranteed panel welcomes reconsiderations of…[Read more] -
Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP — 2020 Shaw Symposium @ Shaw Festival (Ontario, CA) in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
2020 Shaw Symposium
The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA
23-25 July 2020
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Seventeenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We especially welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThank you, Donna. I am the other nominee and will take this opportunity to introduce myself, too.I am an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College, where I teach courses on early modern literature and culture as well as courses on gender and sexuality. I was honored to be nominated for the forum, and I’d love to bring the perspective of…[Read more]
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John Garrison replied to the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThank you, Donna. I am the other nominee and will take this opportunity to introduce myself, too.
I am an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College, where I teach courses on early modern literature and culture as well as courses on gender and sexuality. I was honored to be nominated for the forum, and I’d love to bring the perspective of…[Read more]
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Domna C. Stanton started the topic CLCS RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN FORUM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCLCS Renaissance and Early Modern Forum I am very pleased to be nominated for election to our Forum Executive Committee. This continues to be an exciting, innovative time for early modern studies, not only because of the global turn in our field but also because we are making major contributions to emerging areas in the Humanities: environmental…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoAs a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoAs a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited ‘Bardwashing’ Shakespeare: Food Justice, Enclosure, and the Poaching Poet in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoIn As You Like It, Shakespeare glorifies the social bandits that survive in the Forest of Arden, likening them to Robin Hood outlaws. Near-contemporary pseudo-biographies also record Shakespeare’s early life as a poacher and youthful renegade. Shakespeare’s play might suggest his advocacy of food sovereignty and social justice, a romanticized ima…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Moon-Crossed: a play in play with All’s Well That Ends Well in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoMoon-Crossed reimagines the central plot of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well as a means to examining the female monstrous in early modern drama, literature, and though. Why doesn’t Bertram like Helena? Because she’s a werewolf. But as he learns, she’s of a very noble line of werewolves. She saves the King of France, he learns a bit more…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Shakespeare’s Anti-Balcony Scene in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAttenuated Shakespearean references in popular cultural texts communicate meaning only because audiences, storytellers, and lovers all over the world identify the scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet instantly as an emblem of romantic love. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, and Antony and Cleopatra likewise include scenes i…[Read more]
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