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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
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Katherine Arens started the topic U of Texas at Austin Germanic Studies is having a reception at the MLA in the discussion
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The ‘home team’ would be very pleased to see you there!
Finger food provided; cash bar.
Thursday, Janury 7, 2016, 7-10 pm
Austin Ale House (Back room)
301 W. 6th Street (6th and Lavaca)
http://www.theaustinalehouse.com
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Katherine Arens started the topic U of Texas at Austin Germanic Studies is having a reception at the MLA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe ‘home team’ would be very pleased to see you there!
Finger food provided; cash bar.
Thursday, Janury 7, 2016, 7-10 pm
Austin Ale House (Back room)
301 W. 6th Street (6th and Lavaca)
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Colloque international (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysi…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:
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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHave cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity.
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Marisa Verna deposited Au coeur de Paris. MOOC in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoOnline course
The course Au coeur de Paris, Baudelaire et Paris is a Massive Open Open Course, and focuses on the relation between Baudelaire’s poetry and the city of Paris, within an interdisciplinary approach that includes literary, geographic and artistic features.
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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