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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations
Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Marisa Verna deposited Il giardino, la nebbia e il cioccolato. Un inverno con Proust, in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoLa poesia dell’inverno (del letargo, dice Proust) è materia della Recherche che coniuga arte e vita, o piuttosto impasta i materiali della vita, per farne arte. In un passo del Côté de Guermantes l’eroe del romanzo si trova a trascorrere una notte nella guarnigione di Doncière. L’associazione di diverse sensazioni fisiche (il freddo, la luminosit…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Il giardino, la nebbia e il cioccolato. Un inverno con Proust, in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoLa poesia dell’inverno (del letargo, dice Proust) è materia della Recherche che coniuga arte e vita, o piuttosto impasta i materiali della vita, per farne arte. In un passo del Côté de Guermantes l’eroe del romanzo si trova a trascorrere una notte nella guarnigione di Doncière. L’associazione di diverse sensazioni fisiche (il freddo, la luminosit…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic European Beat Studies Network 2019 Conf – Oct 9-12, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFrom the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.
The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Transnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTransnational Beat Panel at NeMLA Mar 2019 — stop by if you are around!
Saturday 23 March 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Transnational Beat Generation
Chair: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
Location: Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A (Media Equipped)
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
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Marisa Verna deposited Review of Anne Simon, Trafics de Proust. Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Deleuze, Barthes in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoReview of the recent book of Anne Simon, about Proust and / with philosophers
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Marisa Verna deposited Des tableaux, des diables et des mythes. Petite digression sur la « métropole de l’univers » in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article focuses on a vast category of texts, the so-called “Tableaux de Paris”, or “Paris-Guides”, which contributed in a relevant way to the creation and the vulgarization of the Myth of Paris all along the Nineteenth Century. The relation of these publications with the “high” literature is sometimes ambiguous: several great authors par…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Bernard C. Aresu started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI am happy to contribute this brief statement in connection with my nomination as candidate to the executive committee of the MLA’s LLC Francophone.
Currently, I am Laurence H. Favrot Professor emeritus at Rice University whence I just retired from teaching to turn to full time research.
My current book project, The Self in Dissidence: Me…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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Tobias Warner started the topic Warner — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis where I teach literature and film from West Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOffering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]
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