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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years agoDocument annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRichard Stein Essay Prize
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
We are delighted to announce the naming of the INCS Essay Prize in honor of Richard Stein, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, for his role as a principal founder of INCS and for his long and crucial service to developing and nurturing our…[Read more]
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Cathy Yandell posted an update in the group
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAnd one final exciting session to announce: The Sixteenth-/Seventeenth Century Divide in French (5 Jan, 5:15 pm), just before the joint 16th-17th century Cash Bar.
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Cathy Yandell posted an update in the group
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues in 16th-Century French (with apologies for cross-postings),
FOR THOSE OF YOU GOING TO THE MLA IN NY 2018: We hope that you’ll be able to join us for the 16th-century sessions, the joint session with the medieval forum, and the cash bar with the 17th-century forum—we are really branching out! In addition, you are invited to a din…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Art and poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoTeaching material online course
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Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama’s “China Doll” (in Japanese) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis is an analysis of Terayama Shūji’s 1981 film “Shanhai ijin shōkan,” a French co-production which was marketed in the Anglosphere as “China Doll” and in France as “Les Fruits de la passion,” invoking both Ōshima Nagisa’s 1978 “L’Empire de la passion” (the sequel to his notorious “Empire of the Senses” / “L’Empire des sens,” 1976) as well as Ro…[Read more]
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Xiaofan Amy Li started the topic CFP – interdisciplinary conference 'Play, Recreation, Experimentation' in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Call For Papers: ‘Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times’, 8-9 Dec 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury. (details of dates and venue tbc)
Invited speakers: Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter), Dr Thomas Karshan (UEA)
This inte…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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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.
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic Prize for 19th-century thesis topic (last 2 years) in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPrix 2017 du Comité de liaison des associations dix-neuviémistes
Désireux de récompenser et promouvoir les travaux de chercheurs portant sur le XIXe siècle, le Comité de Liaison des Associations Dix-neuviémistes (CL 19) a créé un prix annuel destiné à couronner une thèse de doctorat ou un mémoire de troisième cycle portant sur le XIXe siècle (…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen it meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new forum representative in the Delegate Assembly. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has b…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic "Style." 2017 NCFS CPF in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for papers for “Style.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (University of Virginia, November 9-11, 2017). Abstract due March 15, 2017.
Organized by Cheryl Krueger and Claire Lyu
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Toby Wikström started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement (Wikström) in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear MLA members,
I have the honor of being on the ballot for this fall’s election to the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. I would like to thank Hélène Bilis, the outgoing member of the committee, for her service over the past five years.
Raised in Sweden and the United States, I studied French at Carleton College (BA), the Un…[Read more]
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Hall Bjornstad started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe MLA has suggested that candidates for forum executive committees submit a post about their interests and goals to that forum’s Commons group. My name is Hall Bjørnstad and I have been nominated for the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. Originally from Oslo, Norway, I have been at Indiana University, Bloomington since 2009, a…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic CFP "Odd Bodies," INCS Conference. Philadelphia, March 16-19, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoInterdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2017
Odd Bodies, March 16-19, 2017. Philadelphia.
Nineteenth-century bodies were poked and prodded, characterized, caricatured, corseted and cossetted, disciplined, displayed, naturalized, normalized, medicalized, mapped and mechanized. Sciences and pseudosciences brought the body under…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Appel de communications Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Colloque international in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoAppel de communications
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
Colloque international
Université de Toronto, Canada
24–26 mai 2017
L’affect est avant tout, dans l’ordre du corps, un phénomène physique et psychique, à la fois en-deçà et au-delà de la représentation, qui mobilise l’expérience concrète de soi, celle de l’autre et celle du monde. En…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Appel de communications Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling Colloque international in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoAppel de communications
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
Colloque international
Université de Toronto, Canada
24–26 mai 2017
L’affect est avant tout, dans l’ordre du corps, un phénomène physique et psychique, à la fois en-deçà et au-delà de la représentation, qui mobilise l’expérience concrète de soi, celle de l’autre et celle du monde. En t…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.
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