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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic ASECS 2022 Panel Proposal Deadline Extended to June 27, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoASECS 2022 Session Proposal Form
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Session Proposals for the 52nd Annual Meeting
Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland
March 31 – April 2, 2022
Must be submitted via this form no later than 27 June…[Read more]
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Rosi Song uploaded the file: CFP – Extended deadline for "En la mesa con Manolo: La gastronomía como acto cultural y político" to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoExtended deadline (July 31, 2021) for proposals (~300 words) for a special number on Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and gastronomy for Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Essays (in Spanish) due December 1, 2021. Proposals and queries to: José Colmeiro, j.colmeiro@auckland.ac.nz and/or H. Rosi Song, rosi.song@durham.ac.uk.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talk: Shakespeare and East Asia, Tuesday May 25, 2021 at 5 pm CDT / 6 pm EDT in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoRegister at https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jyEzkIZYQZ6bKzjjr3faZg :::: The University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talks is proud to present a book launch of Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press). Chair: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago). Discussant: Michael Saenger (Southwestern…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited An Index to The Tuneful Yankee and Melody Magazine in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis volume collects the complete bibliographic information for the contents of The Tuneful Yankee and Melody Magazine (1917-1930), including sheet music and articles.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Call for Abstracts: Making Queer Comics (edited collection, UP Mississippi, 7/1) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers (please share)
Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones
“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (advance contract). This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro’s La trabajadora in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Vita Nuova XIX. Intorno a una traduzione di Joan Maragall in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe rediscovery of the manuscript containing a translation by Maragall of Vita Nuova XIX sheds new light on Maragall’s Danteism and helps in clarifying certain obscure points in a
version published by the journal Lletra, which never formed part of the Obres Completes. The current study places Maragall’s version within the environment of the Cat…[Read more] -
Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAttention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global mediation: Performing Shakespeare in the age of networked and digital cultures,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 132-150 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPerforming Shakespeare in modern times is an act of mediation between characters and actors, creating channels between geocultural spaces and time periods. The multiplicity of the plural term global Shakespeares helps us push back against deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous presence. Adaptations accrue nuanced meanings as t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.
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Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la ‘Hispanidad’: Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]
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Susan Larson deposited Intermedialidad e intertextualidad en _Cinematógrafo_ (1936) de Andrés Carranque de Ríos in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoEn la década de 1990, el concepto ‘intermedialidad’ puso en contacto distintas disciplinas académicas (estudios literarios, estudios mediáticos, sociología, estudios cinematográficos e historia del arte) desde la intención por encarar y mejor comprender el ambiente cultural visual/escrito/auditivo que caracterizó los comienzos del siglo XX. Conect…[Read more]
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Bonnie Mak deposited The Campus After COVID-19 in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional…[Read more]
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Rielle Navitski started the topic CFP – Global South Cinephilias – Modernism/Modernity Print Plus Cluster in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoModernism/Modernity Print Plus Cluster – Global South Cinephilias
While the term cinephilia simply refers to a love of cinema, conventionally it has been understood as a rarified appreciation of film, rooted in the imperative to legitimate the medium as a quintessentially modern art and reliant on sophisticated knowledge of its history and its…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWestern observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]
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