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Ari Borrell deposited Criticisms of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Learning of the Heart-Mind (in Zhu Xi: Selected Wrtings) in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAbstract and Keywords
Part of this chapter deals with Zhu Xi’s critique of Buddhism and Daoism: his distinction of the neo-Confucian concept of pattern-principle and virtuous governance from seemingly similar Buddhist and Daoist ideas, his concern with what he saw as both schools’ lack of social and political engagement and their rejection of eth…[Read more] -
Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Jay Rajiva deposited “Secrecy, Sacrifice, and God on the Island: Christianity and Colonialism in Coetzee’s Foe and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis essay argues that the tension in Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe springs from the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death, which outlines how Christianity tacitly incorporates (but doe…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (IASSL 2020, Prague) programme and information on registration and accommodation are now available at https://scotlit2020.ff.cuni.cz/in-prague/
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoPowerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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Vincent Bruyere deposited Chauvet II, Locaux IV, Planet B in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis paper is about an ongoing experiment in ecocriticism that trades the reference to oikos–the inhabited world–for a choreography ushering bodies that cannot exist together anymore as a public through their resurrection to collective existence at the hand of three-dimensional replicas of prehistoric caves: Chauvet II and Lascaux IV. What the…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoSince the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited MLA 2020: Build Your Online Presence, Share Your Scholarship, and Collaborate on MLA Commons and Humanities Commons in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis workshop introduces the features of MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, highlighting cases that demonstrate how people are using the platform to get feedback on work in progress, develop a professional online presence, publish scholarship, teach classes, organize conferences, collaborate in working groups, and more. Learn how to use the…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414, arranged by MS,Opera&Musical Performance in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years ago“‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney Boyd
Followed by discussion — Come to Willow A, Sheraton, at 5:15 till…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoMelody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic CANCELED: Session 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoUnfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.
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Rachel Arteaga deposited Building Intellectual and Institutional Infrastructure in the Humanities in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoPanel: Career Directions for PhDs in English, Lori Askeland (Wittenberg), Chair
Representatives from different types of institutions discuss the job search, whether for tenure-track or non-tenure-track positions or for alt-ac career paths. Topics include not only search mechanics (CVs, letters, interviews) but also identifying passions and…[Read more]
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