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Esha Sil started the topic CFP: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era
Edited by Arif Camoglu, Bakary Diaby, Omar F. Miranda, Gaura Narayan, and Kate Singer
How might we re-envision and extend the “Romantic period” through an archive of texts and forms of expression from multiple communities across the planet during…[Read more]
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Jon Pitt started the topic CFP: International Symposium – Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoCall for Proposals
“Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care”
International Japanese Literature Symposium
30 September – 1 October 2022, In Person
University of California, Irvine
This two-day conference gathers scholars who work on five writers: Chiri Yukie (1903-1922), Sakiyama Tami (1954- ), Tsushima Yuko (1947-2016), Ishimu…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in “Gutmanns Reisen” in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoMit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in “Gutmanns Reisen” eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende ‘Literaturgeschichte’ fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa – “Oder umgekehrt”. Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire “Deutscher Mondschein” (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoRaabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur ‘dürftiger Prose’ inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit “Deutscher Mondschein” vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference “Pacific-Rim Modernism” in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCFP for the Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference
“Pacific-Rim Modernism”
Portland, Oregon | October 27-30, 2022
https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2022/cfp.html
Call for Individual Paper Proposals for MSA Panel Streams
- Pacific-Rim Modernism examines not only how western modernists and modernist cultural productions imag…
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Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference 2022 in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoKorean Literature Association Annual Meeting
November 11-12, 2022, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA
The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of “Resonance” to be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects that reflect on the way res…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited The Correspondence of E M Forster and Forrest Reid: Content and Implications of a New Literary Archive in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis essay/ article examines the provenance and the implications of a literary archive acquired by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Queen’s University Belfast and now fully catalogued by Brian Caraher and Emma Hegarty under the auspices of the British Academy. The state-of-the-art. fully annotated, online catalogue establishes the…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for Redisigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Constructing Age in Children’s Literature: A Digital Approach to Guus Kuijer’s Oeuvre in the group
Children’s literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis article applies digital methods to gain more insight into the role of age in the oeuvre of the Dutch author Guus Kuijer. The concept of “age” is relevant to Kuijer’s oeuvre in various ways: he is a crosswriter who has authored fiction for children, adolescents, and adults, and intergenerational relationships are a recurrent thematic featu…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic MLA 2023 proposal deadline April 1 in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoHi all, A reminder that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1. Any MLA member may propose a special session. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issuse), workshops (focused e.g. on professional development…[Read more]
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Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies (MLA 2023) in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agohttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Paper19560.html
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
This panel solicits papers from graduate students doing Asian American literary studies in pursuit of new horizons–whether innovative methodologies, frameworks, texts, or fields. Send 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2…[Read more] -
Guojun Wang started the topic Deadline for 2023 MLA is 4/1 in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues, I’d like to remind you that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1. Any MLA member may propose a special session. The 75-minute session usually includes 4 papers or 3 papers plus response, but the format can be flexible. For more information about proposing a special…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in SE Asian Studies in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years agoGosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies
The Association for Asian Studies is honored to offer the new Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies, made possible by a generous gift from L.A. Peter Gosling and Linda Yuen-Ching Lim.This fellowship is focused on cap…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Vanessa Joosen deposited A style for every age: A stylometric inquiry into crosswriters for children, adolescents and adults in the group
Children’s literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years agoIn the field of children’s literature studies, much attention has been devoted to investigating differences between children’s and adult literature. Works of crosswriters, authors who write for both readerships in different works, are an excellent source for this research. This article applies stylometry, the computational method of analysing sty…[Read more]
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