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Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
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Laila Amine deposited A House with Two Doors? Creole Nationalism and Nomadism in Multicultural London in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis article focuses on the limits of liberal discourses such as multiculturalism in an increasing global world. I focus on multicultural London and juxtapose Black British writer, Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth to Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, to underline the multiple intersections between the status of colored immigrants, their des…[Read more]
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Anna Ciamparella replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCara Arianna,
forse vuole consultare i testi di Antonio d’Alfonso autore del Quebec. Ha tradotto di suo pugno (dal francese all’inglese) non solo raccolte di poesie sue, ma anche uno dei sui romanzi.
Buona lettura!
Anna
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Eleonora Rao replied to the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCiao Arianna,
Nancy Huston: Canadian (Calgary) transpanted to Paris a while ago – she married Todorov – has self translated a few of her novels – I haven’t read them – I know her essay on displacement: Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile (Toronto, 2012).
eleonora
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Arianna Dagnino started the topic Self-translation of literary works into English in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoI am looking for contemporary published writers who have been self-translating their work from major romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) into English.
<div class=””>If you know of any living authors active in self-translation in these language combinations, please let me know.</div>
<div class=””>Kind regards,</div>
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Peter C. Pfeiffer started the topic Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe Consortium on Useful Assessment of Language & Humanities Education (CUALHE) is a loose confederation of programs and departments engaged and interested in learning outcomes assessment of humanities and languages. We have had a couple of meetings where projects have been presented and certain issues of humanities learning have been highlighted.…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThe editors of a volume titled Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and/or…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu). -
Charlotte Ann Melin deposited Beyond Enrollment Data: Why Students and Program Evaluation Matter in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoSession #339: paper for AAUSC panel QUO VADIMUS?
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Laura Barbas Rhoden deposited Connecting Curriculum to Context: Our Story of Two Liberal Arts College Spanish Programs Engaged in a Changing South in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe purpose of this article is to refl ect upon the process by which two professors in Spanish programs at small liberal arts colleges in the southeastern United States developed courses with civic engagement components that enabled our students to engage with the local Hispanic community in meaningful ways. From the outset, we focused on what we…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec started the topic CFP: "Machine Translation Before 1800" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoContributors are invited for a special session on “Machine Translation Before 1800” for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (January 5–8, 2017).
Translation has usually been conceived as a relationship between individual persons or texts across languages. How does thinking in terms of systems, teams, and conditions instead of indiv…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Lawrence M. Venuti started the topic Call for Papers: “Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation.” in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies
Second Call for Papers (new deadline: January 29, 2016)
“Translation and Ethnography: Reflexivity and Representation”
University of Calgary (Alberta)
May 30 to June 1, 2016
The 29th annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies is plea…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Estimados colegas:
El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Link to Open Access Lisa Zunshine articles now working in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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