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Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: Summer School Enthymema_Morfologie famigliari: Leone e Natalia Ginzburg nella letteratura e cultura italiana e europea to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we are glad to announce that registration is now open for the first Summer School Enthymema “Family morphologies: Leone and Natalia Ginzburg in Italian and European literature and culture”, which will take place 28th-31st August 2017, in Monopoli (Puglia), Italy.
The deadline for registration is 30th April 2017.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 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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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies (IASA) in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies
Italian American Studies Association 2017
University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy
June 16-18, 2017
In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has become increasingly popular within academia. The scholarly appropriation of a term historically associated with the tragic dispersal of a…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Artaud y México in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Local Speech, Global Acts: Performative Violence and the Novelization of the World in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis article examines the performativity of novelistic discourse in order to propose a different set of terms for understanding the circulation of the novel around the world than those that are based on the referential form/content model.
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Nancy Caronia started the topic CFP MLA 2018: From Anarchism to Assimilation: The Making of Italian Americans in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn conjunction with the MLA theme: #States of Insecurity, this panel seeks contributions that complicate notions of assimilation and the assimilated Italian American. How has Italian American radicalization been minimized, erased, or marginalized in favor of the assimilation tale of struggle, hard work, and success? How have Italian radical…[Read more]
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Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Institutional History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Institutional History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through organizations, schools, institutes, and symposia. Papers on any aspect of this institutional history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Peter M. Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu). -
Peter M. Logan started the topic 2018 CFP: The Book History of Theory in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years agoLiterary and Cultural Theory Group CFP
<b>The Book History of Theory</b>
Theory arose not just via ideas but through publishing. Papers investigating presses, journals, book series, or other aspects of print history. Abstract and short CV by 1 March 2017; Jeffrey J. Williams (jwill@andrew.cmu.edu). -
Nicoletta Marini-Maio started the topic gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is available online in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is now online. It includes outstanding research on the theme of gender and language (Themed Section and Invited Perspectives) and other topics related to gender (Open Contributions). gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 also hosts relevant multimedia files, interviews, and book reviews.…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia changed the description of the group
LLC Italian American from "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini, Jan. 2017 (2016–Jan. 2017 Ch.)
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2018 (2016–Jan. 2017 Sec.)
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2019
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2020
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2021" to "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini, Jan. 2017 (2016–Jan. 2017 Ch.)
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2018 (2016–Jan. 2017 Sec.)
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2019
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2020
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2022" on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago -
Nancy Caronia changed the description of the group
LLC Italian American from "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini, Jan. 2017 (2016–Jan. 2017 Ch.)
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2019 (2016–Jan. 2017 Sec.)
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2020
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2021
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2022" to "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini, Jan. 2017 (2016–Jan. 2017 Ch.)
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2018 (2016–Jan. 2017 Sec.)
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2019
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2020
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2022" on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago -
Nancy Caronia changed the description of the group
LLC Italian American from "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini, Chair (Jan. 2017)
Nancy Caronia, Secretary (January 2018)
Clarissa Clo (January 2019)
Jennifer Maucione (January 2020)" to "LLC Italian American forum executive committee:Carla Simonini, Jan. 2017 (2016–Jan. 2017 Ch.)
Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2019 (2016–Jan. 2017 Sec.)
Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2020
Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2021
Teresa Fiore. Jan. 2022" on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago -
Nancy Caronia started the topic CFP: Italian American Folktales in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe are gathering material for a special issue of VIA to honor the creative spirit of Italian folktales. Writers should submit an original folktale of their own creation, or choose a previously published folktale from an existing source (such as Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Italian American Folklore by Malpezzi and Clements, Italian Folkt…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’egoismo di Federigo Tozzi in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLettura della trilogia tozziana di prose poetiche (“Bestie”, “Cose” e “Persone”) sulla base delle confluenze con l’opera stirneriana “L’unico e la sua proprietà”.
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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