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Claudia Cornejo Happel started the topic CFP: 2015 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
<div style=”margin-left: 10em;”>When engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)“the work of the classroom [becomes] a site for inq…[Read more]
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Maria Luisa Martinez started the topic CFP for 46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson UniversityPanel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms
This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional
The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool fo…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron replied to the topic Books on History of Translation. in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoHi, Prithviraj,
Agreed with the excellent suggestions in previous posts; and it is a huge topic. See also the just-released 2nd ed of Douglas Robinson’s anthology of texts (Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche; Routledge). At the risk of self-reference, I’d like to mention to a resource coming out soon that might prove helpful,…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Forum Members,
For anyone who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D., with the aim of teaching literature and composition at a two-year college, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that aims to prepare students for these types of jobs.
The Ph.D. is a…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic Books on History of Translation. in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoThat’s a big topic. One recent book, focused on the English Renaissance, is English Renaissance Translation Theory (ed. by Neil Rhodes, with Gordon Kendal and Louise Wilson, MHRA, 2013). The introduction provides a nice overview of this trend, at least in England, between about 1485 and 1660. Another source is the series, The Oxford History of…[Read more]
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Prithvirajsingh Thakur started the topic Books on History of Translation. in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoDear Friends,
Can anybody suggest me some good book/s or articles on the History of Translation ?
Best,
Prithviraj
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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoSESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the century, Edward Young put forth an idea of the individual author and his original work, it was Goethe, Wordsworth and…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller replied to the topic Best Bibliographies on Cognitive Approaches to Literature in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for your response! I have seen this website before and looked through the bibliographies on it. However, they are somewhat dated. Most of the works listed are from the late 1990s with only a few works from the early 2000s. As far as I can tell, there are no works after 2004-5. I was hoping to find something a bit more up to date. Thank you…[Read more]
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Teresa Egbert replied to the topic Best Bibliographies on Cognitive Approaches to Literature in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThis website might be a place to start:
Literature, Cognition and the Brian
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Matthew Thomas Miller started the topic Best Bibliographies on Cognitive Approaches to Literature in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCan anyone recommend any good, comprehensive bibliographies on cognitive approaches to literature? I am in particular looking for studies that use cognitive linguistics in their analysis of poetry, but any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Matthew Miller
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Free E-Review Copy of "Romances of George Sand" in the forum
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon posted an update in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers — MLA 2015, Vancouver
Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature (Guaranteed sessions)
Experiments, Cross-disciplinary Research, and Scientific Engagements
A panel devoted to experiment and collaboration between literary scholars and cognitive scientists. How do science experiments illuminate literary or aesthetic experience?…[Read more] -
Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Close Reading, Slow Reading, and Teaching Literature in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis session is sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature:
Whether instructors opt to have students engage in “close reading” or “slow reading,” there is an increasing interest in encouraging them to spend more time lingering over texts–reading carefully, attentively, and thoughtfully. In large part a response to a cultural…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Please consider submitting: A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Lit.? in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years agoPlease consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more] -
Steve Rowland started the topic Call for participants: Survey for development of Shakespeare Central in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,
CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.
<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
The English Romantic Period on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]
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