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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Golam Rabbani deposited Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:
- Representations of chosen…
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoVery happy to share that my article on Kracauer’s “Photography” essay (1927) and its weird use of Bachofen’s theory of the archaic matriarchy has just been published in The Germanic Review. E-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNSXEEHMUQYSFFXG3TZ9/full?target=10.1080/00168890.2023.2232511
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Emily Friedman deposited Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoRevised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAbstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.
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William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.
All best,
Bill Viestenz
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoExcerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]
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