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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoCall For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. MLA Convention Session #154 in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to the first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:
#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction
Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider: Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic New executive committee member to be appointed soon in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear forum members,
If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]
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Kath Burton started the topic PIDs and Publishing Engaged Scholarship – new paper out now! in the discussion
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe’ve just published a new paper emerging from the NISOPlus 2023 conference: https://publishingandthepubliclyengagedhumanities.hcommons-staging.org/2023/11/20/harnessing-the-transformational-power-of-pids/
Head over to our wordpress site to read more about the paper and learn how you can harness the power of PIDs.
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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnd…. here’s a link to the full CFP! https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/106/
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Katina Rogers started the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDear friends,
I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.
Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPost45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoRecord, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]
Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press
Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison
Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023
Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024
As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]
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Anatole Shukla created the group
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