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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel to
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP 'Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'. to
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited “English Literature: Theories, interpretations, Contexts” (journal) n.5 (Table of contents) in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“English Literature. Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” is a journal started in 2014 and run by an independent board of scholars in English literature, providing room for a critical analysis of issues and themes concerning English literature and literatures in English, also in a comparative view. It is published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Good Fight! in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoGeorge Walker’s “The Good Fight” as arguing for means towards self-growth which aren’t merely acting out; which aren’t simply signs of perversity, of mental illness. Argues that rather than delineating the key differences between the downtrodden — those stepped on — and the rich — those (gleefully) doing the stomping down — it is truly more…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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