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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazons’ Swamp: Elizabeth Gaskell braves her terrors for freedom in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoExploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into specifically delineated memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo’s March in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoAnalysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Melinda Robb started the topic CFP: Kristeva Circle Conference: Trajectories of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoCall for Papers
The Kristeva Circle, October 3-5, 2019
Trajectories of Psychoanalysis
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Hosts: Noëlle McAfee and Emory University’s
Psychoanalytic Studies ProgramKeynote Speakers:
Emanuela Bianchi, New York University Department of Comparative Literature
Jill Gentile, New York University Postdoctoral Program in…[Read more] -
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years agoGraduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoDrawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoArchives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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