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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
This essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Persistent Ambivalence: Theorizing Queer East German Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
The German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) had an ambivalent relationship with homosexuality. Under the principles of socialism, everyone was welcome to contribute to the greater good. The situation for queer people, here lesbians and gay men, was different: one of illegality and invisibility. A difficulty in analyzing these experiences is…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Vor Ort: The Functions and Early Roots of German Regional Crime Fiction in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago“This essay argues that German regional crime fiction is both a modern development and simultaneously a recollection of crime fiction’s journalistic and literary beginnings. …[R]egional crime fiction has connections to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Fallgeschichten (case stories) that fascinated a developing reading public and satisfied…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Vor Ort: The Functions and Early Roots of German Regional Crime Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
“This essay argues that German regional crime fiction is both a modern development and simultaneously a recollection of crime fiction’s journalistic and literary beginnings. …[R]egional crime fiction has connections to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Fallgeschichten (case stories) that fascinated a developing reading public and satisfied…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Kyle Frackman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Kyle Frackman deposited Finland, Civil War, and Revolution, 1914-1918 on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Historical entry on the Finnish revolution of 1917-1918
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Film critique of “Return to Go” (“Zurück auf los”), directed by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.
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Film critique of “Lola and Billy the Kid” (“Lola und Bilidikid”), directed by Kutlug Ataman.
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Biographical entry on Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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Biographical entry on Magnus Hirschfeld
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A selected survey of gender and sexuality in German-language literature of the long 19th century
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Jeffrey Cohen posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi everyone, just wondering what to do to make this site of greater use to membership. All suggestions and ideas welcome!
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Let us know if we can help here! It might be great to use your group (or site) to promote all the ecocriticism / environmental humanities sessions at the convention, collect presentations and slides from presenters (share them with the group from CORE), or promote other events relevant to the group through the “Events” calendar up above!
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A rumination on object agency and material ecocriticism
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease follow this link to access all three, or see below.
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How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more] - Load More
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