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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoJoin the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]
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Caren Irr started the topic CfP: Writing After Plastic, panel for MLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoProposals welcomed.
<b>Writing After Plastic</b>
How does a political economy of plastic confront its contradictions? Which aesthetic faces does a plastics-based materialism present? How do eco-socialisms envision the excesses, alternatives, and after-lives of plastic? In what forms (aesthetic and/or political) does plastic break…[Read more]
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited People Watching: The Sociology of Erving Goffman in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoSyllabus for an undergraduate course on Erving Goffman.
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited Animals & Society in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoA syllabus for an undergraduate animal studies course.
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Elisa Beshero-Bondar deposited Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: The Pittsburgh Digital Frankenstein Project in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years agoSlides accompanying a panel representing the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project to build a digital scholarly variorum edition that updates, bridges, and intersects multiple divergent editions of Frankenstein, including the manuscript notebook drafts of 1816, the 1818, 1823, and 1831 print editions, as well as the handwritten notes in the…[Read more]
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Moshe Blidstein deposited Vegetable Sacrifice Roman Empire in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAn MA thesis discussing the role of vegetal offerings in Roman religion, and the shift in attitudes towards them in the first centuries CE
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Reba Wissner deposited For Want of a Better Estimate, Let’s Call It the Year 2000: The Twilight Zone and the Aural Conception of a Dystopian Future in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis paper examines the aural conceptions of futuristic dystopias in episodes of The Twilight Zone, focusing on one specific episode, season five’s “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” I examine how the music director of CBS conceived of the future, aurally representing these episodes as having an affinity with the premise of Brave New World by re…[Read more]
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited Ecological Biopower, Environmental Violence Against Animals, and the “Greening” of the Factory Farm in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe promulgation of pollution control regulations governing factory farms has led to a striking new way of representing and intervening in the bodies of farmed animals: the body is being represented as a source of pollution, and various technological interventions, from genetic engineering to dietary changes, are being deployed to reduce pollution…[Read more]
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited Living with Transgenic Animals in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis article examines Farm Sanctuary’s failed effort to save the Enviropigs. In the Spring of 2012, after losing the main source of funding for its Enviropig project, the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, killed the last sixteen members of this line of transgenic pigs, despite Farm Sanctuary’s offer to place them in permanent homes. The…[Read more]
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited Which Animals Do We Study? in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAn examination of taxonomic bias in the field of animal studies.
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited Consider the Vulture: An Ethical Approach to Roadkill in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoRoadkill is disgusting. Many people just want it removed from the roads as quickly as possible, and they don’t care where it goes. In Pennsylvania, most of the deer carcasses that are collected from the roads end up in landfills. But is this a respectful way to treat the dead? And what about the vultures and other scavengers who would otherwise e…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Transmediales Erzählen im narrativen Universum von “Game of Thrones” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years agoEnglish title: “Transmedia Storytelling in the narrative universe of ‘Game of Thrones'” — This essay’s aim is to briefly introduce the concept of Transmedia Storytelling and to provide a showcase analysis and review of the serial TV narrative of GAME OF THRONES in order to show how a television series’ narrative universe, driven by both producers…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited The Vesuvian Eruption of 1631: an Early Modern History (Review) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoReview of the book “The Vesuvian Eruption of 1631: an Early Modern History” (by Alfonso Tortora)
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Description, analogy, symbolism, faith. Jesuit science and iconography in the early modern debate on the origin of springs in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoBy the end of the sixteenth century, many Jesuit colleges had become centers of excellence all over Europe for such disciplines as mathematics, astronomy, hydraulics, and mechanics. Not a few members of the order provided influential contributions to science: in the case of the study of waters, the inquisitive eye of Jesuits took part in the l…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Through dark and mysterious paths. Early modern science and the search for the origin of springs from the 16thto the 18thcenturies in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSince its first attempts to understand natural phenomena, early modern science devoted great attention to the problematic issue of the origin of springs. This essay examines the lively debate that emerged from the studies on fresh water during the years spanning from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. By focusing on the…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Multa curiosa. Vallisneri’s Early Studies on Earth Sciences in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoIn 1687, after he graduated in Medicine, young Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730) returned in the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. In those years he mainly served as general practitioner; nevertheless, he also devoted many studies to various aspects of the natural sciences. He performed many observations, accurately reporting them in seven “Quaderni”…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “On Élie and Eric” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]
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Bill Hughes deposited ‘But by blood no wolf am I’: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver trilogy in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoYoung Adult dark romance is often more questioning than its adult counterpart; different, less constraining commercial imperatives are perhaps at work, or readers’ expectations less fixed. This chapter will show how, woven into a sensitive coming-of-age narrative of first love and familial problems, Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver trilogy performs a f…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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