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David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version) in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline…[Read more]
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Jean-Claude Carron started the topic Sixteenth-Century French Poetry Auction in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoOffrez-vous, entre autres, l’édition originale de la Défense ou les Oeuvres des Dames des Roches, de la collection Barbier-Mueller à Genève. Voir cette information parue dans Le Temps:
“… Si Les Hymnes ne constituent pas la plus importante des pièces proposées, ce recueil de Pierre de Ronsard était pour Barbier-Mueller l’un des plus beaux ouv…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic CFPs: 16th-Century French–LLC for MLA 2022 Washington, DC (Due: 15 March) in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months ago1. Current Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literary and Cultural Studies
The Executive Committee for the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature invites proposals for 18-minute papers on any aspect of sixteenth-century French literature and culture to be delivered at the MLA in Washington, D.C., 6–9 January 2022. We will consider s…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years agoCalls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022
How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Canonicity and Medieval Hispanic Studies in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 5 years agoSince the 1980s, there has been much discussion of the question of the literary canon. Our colleages in English have been particularly outspoken on the question (Charles Altieri 1990; Jan Gorak 1991 and 2000; John Guillory 1993; Gregory Jay 1997) and in recent years, Hispanists such as José María Pozuelo Yvancos and María Rosa Adrada Sánchez (20…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic André Tournon, “Rire pour comprendre…” now available from Classiques Garnier in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Erin Schreiner started the topic CFA: BSA Pantzer Senior Fellowship in the British Book Trades in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn keeping with the central value the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. In addition to a range of Fellowships, we would like to call your…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoMilton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Falstaff’s Baffled “Rabbit Sucker” and “Poulter’s Hare” in 1 Henry IV in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn 1 Henry IV, Falstaff enacts his histrionic mock deposition scene, only to be usurped by England’s true heir, Prince Hal. Irate at his actorly demotion, Falstaff praises his own performance skills, while suggesting that, if found lacking, he should receive a punishment befitting his knightly status. Likening Falstaff to small game hanging in a s…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Griswold deposited Human Insufficiency and the Politics of Accommodation in King Lear in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBy contextualizing the trope of the “unaccommodated man” within Aristotelian notions of insufficiency, this article demonstrates that King Lear theorizes a communitarian politics, rather than one founded in sovereign authority. For late sixteen-century thinkers such as Richard Hooker, Pierre La Primaudaye, and Robert Persons, the vulnerability of…[Read more]
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