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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe International Congress on the Enlightenment is the quadrennial meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) and the world’s largest meeting of specialists on all aspects of the eighteenth century. Recent ISECS congresses have been held in Los Angeles (2003), Montpellier (2007), Graz (2011), and Rotterdam (…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP Special Session MLA 2019: Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern Spain
In the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the p…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2019
Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern SpainIn the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the pueblo?” by exp…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAsociación Internacional de Galdosistas Call for Papers, MLA Chicago 2019
Mapping Nature and Modernity in Benito Pérez GaldósThroughout the nineteenth century, Spain’s fraught path to modernity undoubtedly transformed the human relationship with the environment, changes that in turn elicited various responses from the country’s diverse popula…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Issue of Decimonónica in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am happy to announce that the latest issue (Winter 2018) of Decimonónica is now available at decimononica.org
This issue includes the following essays:
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<li class=”module-master-title”>The Body Disordered: Diagnosing the Philippine Nation in José Rizal’s Noli me tángere (1887) – by Azariah Alfa…
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas replied to the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago- Session Title: Catalan Culture and the State
Session Organizer: Edgar Illas
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).
Modern Catalan culture has been extensively studied in terms of nation building. This focus has ec…[Read more]
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Radovan Škultéty started the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.
We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction
Title of session: Religions + Secularisms in the Novel
Submission requirements: 200-wd abstract & brief bio to jhg@ucla.edu
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018
Description: After the demise of the secular thesis, new ways of reading the novel in relation to secularism and religion?
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
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Edgar Illas started the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCatalan Culture and the State
Forum: LLC Catalan Studies
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu). -
Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers, MLA Chicago, 3 to 6 January, 2019
Buried but Not Dead: Unanthologized Texts – Mapping the Cultural Terrain of 18th/19th C SpainForum: LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian
How do unanthologized texts contribute to our knowledge of cultural parameters? Who shapes the canon? why? abstracts by 10 March 2018; María Elena…[Read more] -
Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP MLA 2019, LLC 18th-19thC Spanish and Iberian in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow We Teach the 18th Century
The forum LLC 18th-and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian invites abstracts for a panel at MLA 2019 on the pedagogical and methodological practices of teaching the 18th century. How, what, why, and to whom do we teach 18th-century Spanish and Iberian literature and culture? We are interested in innovative approaches…[Read more]
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Aurelie Vialette started the topic CFP MLA 2019 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoMLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).
Abstracts should be sent to aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu
Deadline: March 1st, 2018.
Short description:
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. T…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez-Solas posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years agoCALL FOR PAPERS
THEATERS OF MARGINALITY
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College
SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2018The Second Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of marginality. It is informed by the transhistorical persistence of marginality, which we aim to approach from a textual,…[Read more]
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