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Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoFor an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
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Stephen Guy-Bray started the topic workshops of Lyly's Galatea in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago<div class=””>We invite scholars to participate in exploring John Lyly’s <i class=””>Galatea at the Jerwood Space this August. The award-winning theatre maker Emma Frankland and Andy Kesson will be working with a company of performers, exploring the play’s representations of non-normative sexuality and its concluding investment in transge…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller started the topic CFP (NeMLA 2017): The Book Review: Contemporary Forms, Forums, and Forces in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe below roundtable to take place at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Baltimore, MD March 23-26, 2017 may be of interest:
Academic literary critics have long eyed book reviewers, their public counterparts, with suspicion. For example, in The Armed Vision, a 1948 study of the methods of modern literary…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on 20th and 21st-century American literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the Sexuality Studies Group:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Aliso…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHemingway’s In Our Time has been long recognized as a major development in American literature and Modernism, but limited access to its various publication states has meant that the 1930 edition superseded all others. This edition makes the 1923 version of “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” available for the first time since…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSince its first publication, critics have recognized Hemingway’s 1924 in our time as a major development in American literature and Modernism. This edition makes the 1924 version of in our time available for the first time since the 1977 facsimile edition, which was in a print run limited to 1700 copies. The original edition was printed in only 1…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoAmine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited Gnosticism in Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur: New Textual Evidence for Source Materials in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPrevious scholarship on source materials for Lawrence Durrell’s Gnostic themes in Monsieur are insufficient in light of his marginalia in Serge Hutin’s Les Gnostiques and his notebooks for the novel. We contend that archival evidence from the Bibliothèque Lawrence Durrell in Nanterre, France, necessitates a reevaluation of previous work in orde…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Manuscript of Claude Dupin's Commentary on Montesquieu's 'Esprit des lois' in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoClaude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’ in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author; and Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes, published before 1755 and also suppressed.…[Read more]
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TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Jessica Winston started the topic TAships Available ISU Graduate Programs in English and the Teaching of English in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in English at Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) combine the study of English and American Literature with practical and theoretical coursework in the teaching of composition and literature.
We now have two additional TAships available for graduate students…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Laura Green deposited Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness* and Modernist Fictions of Identity in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoVirginia Woolf’s well known distaste for the generic and aesthetic instability of Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) finds echoes in more recent responses, even as the novel remains an anchor of a lesbian literary canon. I demonstrate that Hall’s novel does indeed exhibit generic and psychological instability, as a Victo…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoJohn Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]
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