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George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoItaly was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoNew directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Life Writing 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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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPlease see abstract.
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick
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Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick
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