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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoOn the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoJoin the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Ian Cornelius deposited Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter [abstract] in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years agoA two-page abstract of the book.
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Ian Cornelius deposited Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter [abstract] in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years agoA two-page abstract of the book.
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Luiza Franco Moreira deposited Remembering Antonio Candido in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the 2018 MLA Convention, the Luso-Brazilian Forum organized a meeting to remember Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017), on January 6, 7:15-8:30 PM. This posting collects most papers read at the meeting. Should you be interested in contributing your own remembrance, or reflections on Candido’s career, please send them to me on the Commons. I…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers deposited Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoEstablishing a meaningful digital identity is essential to managing one’s scholarly and professional reputation. This workshop addresses ways to cultivate an online identity and offers guidance on “going public” using tools and strategies for building a community around your work. Topics include social media, writing for different audiences, perso…[Read more]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Elisa Beshero-Bondar deposited Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: The Pittsburgh Digital Frankenstein Project in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoSlides accompanying a panel representing the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project to build a digital scholarly variorum edition that updates, bridges, and intersects multiple divergent editions of Frankenstein, including the manuscript notebook drafts of 1816, the 1818, 1823, and 1831 print editions, as well as the handwritten notes in the…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
questions the meaninglessness of bloodshed in the battlefield, a trait which i…[Read more] -
Matthew K. Gold deposited Response to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited Grammars and Rhetorics in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years agoA survey of the foundational disciplines of literate culture in the British isles, from the failure of the Roman imperial project in the fifth century to Henry VIII’s promulgation of uniform Latin grammars in 1540-42.
Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct and effective use of language in antiquity. In the M…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Luna Najera deposited Masculinity, War, and Pursuit of Glory in Sepúlveda’s Gonzalo in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Dialogus de appetenda gloria qui inscribitur Gonsalus (1523) is Juan Gine´s de Sepu´ lveda’s first reflection on the moral aspects of war. In it, he addresses whether it is morally licit for Christians to desire worldly honor and glory, a question that Christian mystics, Irenicists, and humanists like Desiderius Erasmus and Juan Luis Vives pos…[Read more]
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Luna Najera deposited Masculinity, War, and Pursuit of Glory in Sepúlveda’s Gonzalo in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Dialogus de appetenda gloria qui inscribitur Gonsalus (1523) is Juan Gine´s de Sepu´ lveda’s first reflection on the moral aspects of war. In it, he addresses whether it is morally licit for Christians to desire worldly honor and glory, a question that Christian mystics, Irenicists, and humanists like Desiderius Erasmus and Juan Luis Vives pos…[Read more]
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