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Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic NACS Conference Barcelona 2015 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHola a tots,
Us faig cinc cèntims del Col·loqui de la NACS que es va celebrar a Barcelona a començament d’estiu. M’alegra poder dir que va anar molt bé perquè es va constatar la fortalesa i varietat de la catalanística. A continuació us en faig un resum. Per aquells que no vau poder assistir-hi, al resum trobareu els enllaços que reprodu…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Volume on Unamuno in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<div class=”activity-inner”>
Dear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a s…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic CFP Translation and Iberian Literatures in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a dossier on “Translation and Iberian Literatures”: http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html
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Over the last three decades, translation has gained increasing visibility and attention in literary studies. This development is related to the questioning of p…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Emerson's Bayonet" in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends,” in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan be…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA 2016 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Ulrike Hill deposited Mathilde Blind’s Contribution to Victorian Cosmopolitanism in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBlind’s autonomous cosmopolitanism is in four distinct layers. The first layer is her unusual everyday family background in the transition from Jewish tradition to the life of European revolutionaries in the 1840s and exile in Britain. The second layer is Blind’s mental and moral development under Friederike’s care and educational guidance accor…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Introductions—and Syllabus Exchange in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello all,
This forum has almost 750 members, so I would like to invite you all to introduce yourselves! And if it is not too painful to think about the fall semester yet, I’d encourage you to use the group as a locus of information exchange and syllabus brainstorming. If you’d like to share your syllabus while retaining copyright, you can…[Read more]
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Ignacio Infante replied to the topic CFP: Translation Review –Special Issue “Contemporary Translational Literature" in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoQuick clarification: I’ve just been informed that Translation Review is no longer the official journal of ALTA. Apologies for the confusion.
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Ignacio Infante started the topic CFP: Translation Review –Special Issue “Contemporary Translational Literature" in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers for a special issue of Translation Review (Routledge) expected to come out by the Summer of 2016 (the second issue of vol. 92).
Widely recognized as one of the most important peer-reviewed journals in the field and the official journal of ALTA, Translation Review serves as a major critical and scholarly journal to facilitate…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is October 8-10, 2015. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Place: University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA (45 miles west of Atlanta)
When: October 8-10, 2015
Deadline: July 12, 2015
Keynote speaker: Dr. David T. Gies,…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Baal and Thoth: Unwelcome Apparitions in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Disgrace in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his seminar, Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida discusses how one of the essential qualities of the specter is his ability to appear incessantly. The inability to know when the specter may appear, however, not only enforces its haunting quality but also conveys a despairing sense of what Derrida refers to as empty Messianism from which emits…[Read more]
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Denise Kripper replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoI’m a PhD Candidate in the Spanish & Portuguese Department at Georgetown University, currently working on my dissertation on the role of fictional translators in contemporary Latin American and Spanish Literature. I’d like to help in whatever way I can. Thanks.
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Sheila Smith McKoy started the topic CFP: HIV/AIDS: A Contemporary Comparison of Culture, People and Survival in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has impacted human life in ways that no other disease has in human history. The reasons for this impact are numerous and discouraging. The virus is spread through the intimate contact that defines itself. There is no cure for it. There is no vaccine. In fact, even the thought of human trials to test the efficacy of va…[Read more]
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Scott G. Williams replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoIn addition to ALTA, it would be a good idea to reach out to ATISA as well:
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Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHi Nicky,
I can’t volunteer a lot of time, but I’d be willing to help collect and vet translation studies-related syllabi.
Best,
Melek
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Corine Tachtiris replied to the topic Call for Participants: Translation Site on the Commons in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoI can put you in touch with Edwin Gentzler, if no one else has already.
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