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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic Disability and Human (in)Dignity in East Asian Literature and Film in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPapers addressing representations of <span class=”il”>disability</span> and human (in)dignity in <span class=”il”>East</span> <span class=”il”>Asian</span> literature and film. Comparative perspectives preferred. 250-word abstract and short CV by March 15; Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong@ucr.edu)
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoNavigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars
An interactive discussion for East Asian scholars on how to master the intricacies of the
MLA covering Forums, Elected Committees, the Delegate Assembly, MLA Commons,
and more.
Guaranteed Session Sponsored by the East Asian Forum.
Christopher Lupke Presiding.
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJust a reminder that this Friday February 17, 2017 is the CFP deadline for “Situating Lyric” (Boston University, June 7-11, 2017): see http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric . Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Culler, Charles Altieri, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Dominique Combe, Eva Zettelmann, Klaus Hempfer, Haun Saussy, Stephen Owen, Robert von…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Native Sons; Or, How “Bigger” Was Born Again in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis article reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript. It argues that such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension. By revealing the continuities among critical essays that…[Read more]
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Jiwei Xiao started the topic Jia Pingwa MLA 2018 Roundtable cfp in the discussion
Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World Literature: Translation and Interpretation
A Roundtable sponsored by the LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum for the MLA Annual Meeting in New York, Jan. 4-7, 2018.
Jia Pingwa is considered one of the most original and influential novelists in contemporary China. A prolific writer, he has non…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: Children's Lit in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoMaybe of interest to some folks here. I’m sure it will be great.</div>
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MLA 2018 Call for Papers! Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s LiteratureBooks can encourage children to question rather than accept the world as it is. Literature for young people can invite them to imagine a world where black lives matter, wom…[Read more]
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Michael Emmerich started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoPapers on the application of digital humanities techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).
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Michael Emmerich started the topic Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoPapers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media 2018 in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoAnnouncing CFP “East Asian Languages and Literature after 1900”
LLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese MediaPapers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017
Joanne…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media (MLA NY 2018) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoLLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese MediaPapers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017
Joanne Bernardi (joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu)
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Matthew Fraleigh started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: Translation in pre-Meiji Japan in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoWe invite papers that examine translation and other aspects of
interlingual and/or intralingual textual practice in Japan prior to
the Meiji period. 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh
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Vyjayanthi Selinger started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: States of Precarity in premodern Japan in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoStates of precarity in premodern Japan
Papers on any state of precarious existence in premodern Japan. Reasons for insecurity might be economic, social, political, religious, gendered, or symbolic. 300 word abstract by 28 February 2017; Terry Kawashima (terry.kawashima@umb.edu).
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Matthew Davis deposited Lydgate at Long Melford: Reassessing the Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in Their Local Context in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe extracodical stanzas of John Lydgate’s Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in the Clopton chantry chapel of the Great Church of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, not only are two intriguing witnesses differing in presentation and language from the manuscript copies but also can be considered as part of a rhetorical program where…[Read more]
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Gayle Rogers deposited Introduction to *Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature* in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoAn approach to understanding modernism in literary history through the lens of translation by tracing the work of key figures such as Pound, Dos Passos, Jiménez, and Unamuno to translate US and Spanish literatures after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years agoTheories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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William Waters replied to the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“Situating Lyric” Conference website (with updated CFP): http://www.bu.edu/wll/situatinglyric
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William Waters started the topic CFP "Situating Lyric" at Boston Univ. June 7-11, 2017 in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 9 years ago“SITUATING LYRIC”
First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric
To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)
The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoThank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!
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Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic East Asian Reception photos in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoThanks, Orna, for the photos! Looks like folks had a great time:-)
Cheers,
Melek
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