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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThis chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Travel and its Crossroads – extended deadline 07/12/15 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe deadline for submissions is July 12, 2015.
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.
30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]
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Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThis paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.
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Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoWith the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several vers…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP – Travel and its Crossroads- Oct 8-10, 2015 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Baal and Thoth: Unwelcome Apparitions in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Disgrace in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoIn his seminar, Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida discusses how one of the essential qualities of the specter is his ability to appear incessantly. The inability to know when the specter may appear, however, not only enforces its haunting quality but also conveys a despairing sense of what Derrida refers to as empty Messianism from which emits…[Read more]
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Bhakti Shringarpure started the topic Great post by Kenneth Harrow on the African Film Fest in Burkina Fa in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoFor film folks, the premier scholar on African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow, has a dispatch from this years FESPACO in Burkina Faso. There’s short reviews of films that Harrow finds notable and some thoughts on where the festival is as viable and important as in the past. Check out “Has the Magic Gone Out of Africa’s Largest Film Festi…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic CFP: Textos Híbridos. Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoExcellent– I posted your announcement in our Commons, the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Mariana
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. October 16 and Sat. October 17, 2015 in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: MCEA Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and Resolutions
Featured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec FosterLocation: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has conflict among different soci…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic Special Session Proposal on "Legal and Literary Persons" in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi All,
I am proposing a special session on literary and legal approaches to personhood for the 2016 MLA in Austin. I’m hoping to receive a few more abstracts by March 15. Please see the CFP and description below. Thank you.
Best regards,
Peter Leman
CFP: Legal and Literary Persons
Personhood, personality, impersonation,…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
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David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session – The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:
Bukowski/Chinaski and media other than print (film, television, audio recording, etc.)
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Special Session Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoOrganizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at Au…[Read more]
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Verena Kick started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Readers, Listeners, Viewers, Users in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Papers
2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX
Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC
Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users
What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once e…[Read more]
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Verena Kick started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Readers, Listeners, Viewers, Users in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Papers
2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX
Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC
Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users
What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline o…[Read more]
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