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Peter Schmidt deposited William Carlos Review-essay of William Carlos Williams, _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_. Compiled and Edited by Jonathan Cohen. Foreword by Julio Marzán. New York: New Directions, 2011. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAll of William Carlos Williams’ translations from the Spanish have been gathered and expertly edited by Jonathan Cohen. Williams’ translations were collaborative and a key factor in his growth during three different phases of his career: during World War I and his crucial break-through as an artist; during the 1930s, inspired by the Spanish…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI haven’t read everything in the anthology yet, but am curious about October. Gluck seems to be one of those “nature” poets who really isn’t writing about flora and fauna but about the self, but that makes political comment feel distant, uncommitted. She’s saying, not “I am deeply wounded by the deaths of those refugees” but “I am deeply wounded…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoSir,
Is your reading of An Eye For An Eye and October finished? If so, please, make some scholarly comments on them.
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Charles Gleek deposited Read. Write. LitMag: Whiteness in the Fall 2016 issue of Brevity in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper explores the extent to which whiteness is represented in the Fall 2016 issue of Brevity. I suggest that the authors’ representation of whiteness manifests in the forms of both white privilege and white supremacy, and thus serves as the predominant theme of this issue of the magazine. I also consider the ways in which distant reading t…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited The Fabric of Society: Textiles as an Indicator of Social Class in Domestic Novels in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines textiles as an indicator of social class in the sentimental novels of the American long 1850s. Publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830) and Lady’s World of Fashion (1842) are credited with creating the ties between social status and textile quality. Yet, domestic novels of the long 1850s such as The Discarded Daugh…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThank you for making me familiar with A Tale for the Time Being. You made a significant point about lived time and narrated time both of which post 9/11 poetry entails. A poem like “Messages from the Sky: September 11, 2001” by Fred Moramarco, which captures a number of messages from the 9/11 victims in direct speeches, is a brilliant example of…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI’ve just requested from our library the anthology and the Gluck book, and look forward to reading them. Do you know Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being? A small section of it is devoted to a Japanese father’s fixation on images of the Falling Man, and then his daughter, one of the book’s two protagonists, registers his fixation and feels…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI am late for technical problems in this website.
An Eye for an Eye is a historical interpretation of 9/11 that challenges mainstream media representation of the same and October is a deep meditation on the attempt to counter and assimilate traumatic experience. So I highly recommend these two works for our ongoing discussion.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPlease, wait. I will reply very soon
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “Shakespeare on Film in Asia.” Chapter 12 of The Shakespearean World, ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 225-240 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoShakespearean tragedies and comedies have been adapted to the silver screen in India, Malaysia, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Japan. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? Why are particular strategies used or themes emphasized? How are pre-linguistic structures of spectacle and…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSorry I’m so late to reply. I am unfamiliar with the first item above, and am surprising myself not to be familiar with the Gluck book, since I keep up with most of her work. I very much like the rest of the list. At risk of getting slightly off-topic, would you agree that fiction writers have written about 9/11 and its aftermaths more and…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSir,
Thank you a lot for your interest in post 9/11 poetry, especially in Claudia Rankine. The primary literature I have chosen for our discussion is as follows,
1. An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson.
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI’m very interested, especially as US poetry in the second half of the past century seemed concerned with the private and now, with the provocations of 9/11 and Claudia Rankine, poets are being urged to become more public.
John Streamas
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Joydeep Chakraborty started the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would to start a discussion on post 9/11 American poetry. Interested members are reauested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of 21st century american poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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