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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “On Élie and Eric” in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2018 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
Session 221: Law, Literature and Emotion
Friday, January 5, 2018, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
Hilton, Concourse A
Description: Panelists consider the relation between law and emotion as seen in seventeenth-century English tragedy, antebellum American p…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited The Shakespeare User in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Shakespeare User explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate that users’ critical and creative uses of the dramatist’s works position contemporary issues of rac…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar deposited Looking for Goneril and Regan in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn _King Lear_ the power Goneril and Regan desire and the violence in which they participate defy orthodox notions of appropriate feminine conduct. Because power as a feminine attribute is rejected as a violation of nature, they become “evil.” Rather than assuming that real women, or good women, will not defend their own power or the sov…[Read more]
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Alex Feldman posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoExecutive Committee Candidacy
Dear all,
I am writing to introduce myself as a candidate/ nominee for the upcoming Executive Committee elections. I am a Lecturer and Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in the English Department at the University of Haifa, specialising in Modern British, American and European drama, with a particular focus on the representation…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited Early Modern English Historiography: Providentialism versus New History. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern 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
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 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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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2018 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited “The Skull and Hair of Alessandro de’ Medici: Reading Racial Signs in Historical Perspective.” in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIn this essay I discuss the racial formations of Alessandro de’ Medici, first duke of Florence. These formations derive from different sources: verbal descriptions, portraiture, and the material evidence of Alessandro’s remains. I examine whether a painted “description” tallies with a verbal one, considering the variety of terms used to describ…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited Mistaken Identities?: Alessandro de’ Medici and the Question of “Race” in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoa b s t r ac t
Alessandro de’ Medici’s life and its representation reveal important beliefs about family, politics,
and genealogy during the Italian Renaissance. Duke Alessandro’s government marked the end of
the Florentine Republic and the beginning of hereditary rule. Many scholars interpret Alessandro’s
assassination as a fitting end to…[Read more] -
David Wacks deposited SPAN 150: Introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in Comics in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoDescription: This course is an introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with an emphasis on comics and graphic novels. In this course we will learn about the graphic novel as an artistic vehicle for studying the history and cultures of Spain and Latin America (including the Latino US). There will be a series of guest appearances from…[Read more]
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP for The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – March 29th to April 1st, 2018.
Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied Franc…[Read more] -
Rose Casey posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: Forms of Law: The Agentive Capacities of Literary and Legal Forms, ACLA 2018 (UCLA)
Organizers: Rose Casey (rose.casey@mail.wvu.edu) and Stephanie De Gooyer (sdegooye@willamette.edu)
Abstracts of 1500 characters due September 1 to 23rd via ACLA portal: https://www.acla.org/forms-law-agentive-capacities-literary-and-legal-formsIn their newly…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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