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Mary Dockray-Miller deposited “Judith of Flanders and Her Books: Patronage, Piety, and Politics in mid-eleventh century Europe” in Telling Tales and Crafting Books, Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren, eds. Dorsey A. Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, and Alexander L. Kaufman. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016, 267-322. in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay analyzes the illustration sequences of the four magnificent Gospel books made for Judith of Flanders within the context of the political chaos in pre-Conquest England. These deluxe display books indicate one of the ways that literacy and literary patronage provided cultural legitimacy and social status for secular women in the late…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Noreen O'Connor started the topic Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield (due 3/15) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Elizabeth von Arnim Society and the Katherine Mansfield Society welcome scholars interested in Women’s Studies to the “
Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference” which will be held 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CaliforniaConference web sit…[Read more]
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Brian Vetruba deposited Twenty-eigth Annual Bibliography 2014 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe 28th bibliography for 560 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2014, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals mainly from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A…[Read more]
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Brian Vetruba deposited Twenty-ninth Annual Bibliography 2015 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe 29th bibliography for 585 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection located on level B of Olin Library. All published in 2015, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany,…[Read more]
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Devin Fore started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Revolutionary Belatedness in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoOn the centennial of the October Revolution, the Forum for 20<sup>th</sup>- and 21<sup>st</sup>-Century German invites papers for the 2018 Conference of the Modern Language Association (January 4-7 in New York) that explore German reception of Russian and Soviet culture. The panels will focus specifically on the questions that this reception…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 Call for Papers: please circulate to Spanish media/film/visual/cultural studies lists and urge your students and colleagues to submit abstracts!
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>Pre-cinema…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Modernism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Modernism. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES 1984 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Samara Hayley Steele deposited The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAggregate larp rules are a type of code that runs on humans. Code can be thought of as a linguistic form that is both declarative and imperative; it is both truth and command (Buswell 2009). In aggregate larp, elements of the game’s
diegesis are rendered codic, or playable, allowing players a degree of autonomy from game staff. Through the m…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP MLA 2018– Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2018 CFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (12 March 2017) in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoConnecting the Dots: Museums and Comics
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,” what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces and praxis?…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoCFP: Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics (MLA 2018)
Drawing from art theorist André Malraux—“The museum invites comparison of each of the expressions of the world it brings together, and forces us to question what it is that brings them together,”¬ what indeed brings comics and museums into dialogue and/or dispute over exhibitionary spaces…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: “La France est en guerre” (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
Send 200-word abstract and one-page CV to Jennifer Cazenave…[Read more] -
Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: "La France est en guerre" (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
Send 200-word abstract and one-page CV to Jennifer Cazenave…[Read more] - Load More
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