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Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Kafka’s: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) from
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Zachary Ludington started the topic Call for Submissions: Poéticas in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPoéticas, Revista de Estudios Literarios, a new journal published in English and Spanish, invites submissions of scholarly work related to all aspects of poetry, in any language or period. In addition to scholarly studies, and book reviews, the journal publishes new work from recognized poets like Charles Simic and Yusef Komunyakaa. See the…[Read more]
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Esther Sánchez-Pardo started the topic CFP: On Sappho's Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoOn Sappho’s Website: Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
International Conference, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
April 25-27, 2017
https://onsapphoswebsite.wordpress.com/
EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 30, 2016
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures
The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more] -
Mallory DeGregori deposited The Mother Without an Identity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWithin Gothic Literature the identity of the mother causes women to lose their own identity. For the mothers in Beloved, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “Greenleaf” their identity of themselves is lost as they identity as being the mother of their children rather than their own individual person. Some gothic mothers are absent mothers…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Mallory DeGregori deposited Men and “Scribbling Women”: Changing Places in Captivity in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSentimental fiction and domestic novels elevated the female voice, giving authority to the womanly experience as wives, mothers, and women. Novels such as Maria Susanna Cummins’s The Lamplighter and Sara Payson Willis’s Ruth Hall adopted the ideology of feminine behavior and womanliness while, implying tones of dissatisfaction with the role and…[Read more]
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Emma Lieber started the topic CFP: The Subject of Criticism (edited collection 1/1/17) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Subject of Criticism
We are told that the humanities are suffering a downturn. Even as critical thinking, analysis, and compassionate assessment—the backbones of the humanities education—are in high demand now more than ever, the world of the academy outside of science and technology continues to experience cuts, downsizing, and general dev…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Dysfunctional Utopia: Emily Dickinson and the "Good Death" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper will be presented at the upcoming South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference Nov.3-6 in Jacksonville, FL. The research is a part of my thesis project that will be completed in spring 2017.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoKafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.
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Susan Zieger started the topic Executive Forum Candidacy in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI’m Susan Zieger and I am running for the Executive Committee of CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. I’ll briefly introduce my academic work and my plans for the Committee should I have the honor to represent our fields and critical interests to the MLA.
I am Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside; I received my Ph.…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agon his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society An…[Read more] - Load More