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John Levin replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAlthough I’m doing a PhD at Sussex University on debtors’ sanctuaries in c18th London, I have a strong interest in Spain & Spanish history, which I’d like to develop more seriously.
Especially interested in digitial history, and using computational techniques on historical data.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) has digitized much of the Comintern’s materials on the International Brigades (fond 545). The site is most easily navigated if you can read Russian, but there is some English translation, and the archives are in many languages.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThanks, Anne, for putting this group together. My book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War was published by Cambridge in 2015. It explores the personal and political lives of international communists, centering on the SCW as a key moment in the history of communism and communist life histories.
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Anna Girling posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi all – and many thanks Anne for setting up this group and inviting me to join. I’m very glad to be here! My interest in the Spanish Civil War began with my grandparents – who both went there as volunteers from the UK. I started a blog last year (http://redthirties.wordpress.com/) with the aim of looking at some of the archival materials that I…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis article doesn’t require a login: “La Guerra Civil, vista por un cuáquero inglés“
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA start:
“The digital Archive of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship is an initiative of UCSD in collaboration with several Spanish civic associations, such as the ARMH (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica), the Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos, the Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria…[Read more]
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Laura Hartmann-Villalta replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello! I work on SCW visual culture and women’s writing. I am a happy panel contributor and collaborator.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease introduce yourself! Share your interests and previous / current / future work related to the Spanish Civil War, as well as any other info you’d like to put out there.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDo you have any favorite (digital) collections of SCW-related materials?
Searching for public domain images for the header & group avatar, I was trying to think of good places to search. The V&A had a number of posters, but weren’t easy to download for image use. (Suggestions about our cover/group image, send them my way.)
Do you know of online…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAnother suitcase of SCW photographs emerges: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lost-photographs-of-the-spanish-civil-war-found-in-a-suitcase-9c25d3pzv
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Anne Donlon created the group
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoTranslation (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/deposits/?facets%5Bsubject_facet%5D%5B%5D=Translation) is the new featured collection on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/). Contribute to the collection by adding “Translation” as a subject to your CORE deposits.
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James Elkins deposited What it Means to Write a Novel After Novels Have Ended: Thoughts on Bolano’s “By Night in Chile” in the group
TC Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited Images in Sebald’s “Rings of Saturn” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited Images in Andre Breton’s “Nadja” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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Donald Haase deposited “We Are What We Are Supposed to Be”: The Brothers Grimm as Fictional Representations in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis article examines how the Brothers Grimm are fictionalized in German and Anglo-American media. While some representations revere and romanticize the iconic brothers for preserving the fairy-tale tradition, other depictions challenge the conventional understanding of their work and cultural contribution. In these demythologizing depictions, the…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Coleridge and Henry Boyd’s Translation of Dante’s “Inferno”: Toward a Demonic Interpretation of “Kubla Khan” in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDrawing on Henry Boyd’s 1785 translation of the “Inferno,” this note documents the nature and extent of Coleridge’s knowledge of the “Inferno” and demonstrates that Dante’s work probably did influence Coleridge during the composition of “Kubla Khan.”
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James Elkins deposited The Ultimate Failed Modernist Hyper-Novel: Miklos Szentkuthy, Prae, part one in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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Mariela Mendez de Coudriet started the topic CFP Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago<h2>CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector</h2>
<h2>Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York) invite proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press.</h2>
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces
49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
“Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds”
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaNeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries…[Read more]
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