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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt started the topic 20th- and 21st- century LatAm panels @MLA Philly 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHere are the panels organized by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Feel free to share info about related panels at the upcoming MLA.
The Autonomy of Poetry Revisited
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 305-306, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin Ameri…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic Ibero-American Society for 18th-century Studies Student Essay Prize in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Ibero-American Society for 18th-Century Studies offers the Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize, awarded to the best essay dealing with eighteenth-century Spain, Portugal or Ibero-America. The prize is open to graduate students enrolled in a North American university. Advanced undergraduate work could be considered provided it is…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefuturesThe fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for This Forum's Fall 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMS Screen Arts and Culture will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in an election that is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making n…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSince the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative will expire in January 2018, the next forum delegate election is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for The Comics of Alison Bechdel approaches! 12/1/16
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will conta…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture (on translation and Edmund Spenser) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi, all; at the risk of self promotion, I forward this:
[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
TC Religion and 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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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Emma Lieber started the topic CFP: The Subject of Criticism (edited collection 1/1/17) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Subject of Criticism
We are told that the humanities are suffering a downturn. Even as critical thinking, analysis, and compassionate assessment—the backbones of the humanities education—are in high demand now more than ever, the world of the academy outside of science and technology continues to experience cuts, downsizing, and general dev…[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
TC Memory Studies 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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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017).
“Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more] -
Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture 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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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers / convocatoria in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSe solicitan propuestas / colaboraciones:
“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017).
“Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Por…[Read more] -
Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Convocatoria / call for papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSe solicitan contribuciones / propuestas:
“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). “Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry.
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