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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI have sent my research proposal to the e-mail address you gave me in your last correspondence.Please, inform me whether you have got it, and I would be greatly obliged if you offer your valuable feedbacks on it.
Now, let’s turn to our ongoing discussion. So far as my knowledge is concerned, confessional poets (for example, Sylvia Plath) are…[Read more] -
John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI would love to see your proposal. My email address is <streamas@wsu.edu>, and you may just send it that way if you’d prefer. We’ve avoided the word “confessional,” and I think that’s wise. I don’t think Gluck is a conventionally confessional poet, yet she’s less “historical” and public than, say, the Lowell of the 1960s. Because several new books…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI did not respond to your answer quickly because I thought you were busy with the study of An Eye For An Eye. You are, definitely, right in assuming that the subject position of the speaker in October makes him/her incapable of making any political comments. But it also enables him/her to contemplate on post-traumatic self and human life in its…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited “In This Way the Moons and the Seasons Passed”: Distantly Reading the Literary Criticism of Things Fall Apart. in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI employ distant reading techniques and data visualization tools to assess the literary criticism of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. My findings suggest that the scholarly literary criticism of Things Fall Apart did not occur independently with the publication of Achebe’s work in 1958, but was a part of a larger trend in literary criticism a…[Read more]
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Peter Schmidt deposited “’Truth so mazed’: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoTreats the meaning of the phrase quoted in the title for Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and, especially, “The Bear.” Published in Cambridge UP’s anthology of new essays, Faulkner in Context, edited John Matthews, 2015.
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Peter Schmidt deposited William Carlos Review-essay of William Carlos Williams, _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_. Compiled and Edited by Jonathan Cohen. Foreword by Julio Marzán. New York: New Directions, 2011. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAll of William Carlos Williams’ translations from the Spanish have been gathered and expertly edited by Jonathan Cohen. Williams’ translations were collaborative and a key factor in his growth during three different phases of his career: during World War I and his crucial break-through as an artist; during the 1930s, inspired by the Spanish…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI haven’t read everything in the anthology yet, but am curious about October. Gluck seems to be one of those “nature” poets who really isn’t writing about flora and fauna but about the self, but that makes political comment feel distant, uncommitted. She’s saying, not “I am deeply wounded by the deaths of those refugees” but “I am deeply wounded…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoSir,
Is your reading of An Eye For An Eye and October finished? If so, please, make some scholarly comments on them.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited The Fabric of Society: Textiles as an Indicator of Social Class in Domestic Novels in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines textiles as an indicator of social class in the sentimental novels of the American long 1850s. Publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830) and Lady’s World of Fashion (1842) are credited with creating the ties between social status and textile quality. Yet, domestic novels of the long 1850s such as The Discarded Daugh…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Rhetorical Analysis Peer-Review Handout in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis handout serves as a guide for student peer-reviewers to provide useful feedback to the writer. The open-ended questions walk the reviewer through the rhetorical analysis essay and provide a structure for evaluating the thesis, organization, rhetorical strategies, and use of pathos, ethos, logos, and kairos in the paper. The Rhetorical…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic CFP: Methods of Health Humanities in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCFP: Methods of Health Humanities
Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017
The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThank you for making me familiar with A Tale for the Time Being. You made a significant point about lived time and narrated time both of which post 9/11 poetry entails. A poem like “Messages from the Sky: September 11, 2001” by Fred Moramarco, which captures a number of messages from the 9/11 victims in direct speeches, is a brilliant example of…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic still time — international Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium May 5-6 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI am posting the following on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo:
Dear Colleagues,
We hope you’ll consider joining us at Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 5-6 for the international Hippocrates Symposium on Poetry and Medicine. This gathering of health humanities scholars and poets from around the globe is being convened this ye…[Read more]
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