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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Brandon Walsh deposited ENWR 1510: The Musical Then and Now in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on Humanities Commons 8 years agoENWR 1510 is a writing seminar designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of academic
prose. We cover a number of writing topics in class, including the crafting of arguments,
methods of brainstorming and revision, approaches to research, and the principles of good style.
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Tobias Steiner deposited Bron/Broen, the Pilot Episode as Space between Cultures, and (re)negotiations of Nordic Noir in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoNordic Noir has, since the early-2000s, evolved into a globally-popular genre that now easily transcends media-specific boundaries. Television has always been at the forefront of that development: Scandinavian TV productions either turned literary successes into distinct and easily-recognizable television scripts, or developed independent shows…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Bron/Broen, the Pilot Episode as Space between Cultures, and (re)negotiations of Nordic Noir in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoNordic Noir has, since the early-2000s, evolved into a globally-popular genre that now easily transcends media-specific boundaries. Television has always been at the forefront of that development: Scandinavian TV productions either turned literary successes into distinct and easily-recognizable television scripts, or developed independent shows…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Ritualization as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEarly works of dramatic criticism seeking to draw parallels between ritual and drama in Africa concentrated on examining the dramatic characteristics of ritual to see how drama evolved from ritual. However, a closer application of the theories of Girard, Schechner, Smith, Hubert Mauss and Turner reveal new perspectives on the interaction between…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Don't Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoRCWS Literacy Studies Sessions:
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy StudiesPresentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska, Anchorage) [#4701]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “On Élie and Eric” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “On Élie and Eric” in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article assesses the longstanding myths and debates surrounding the supposed African ancestry of German Romantic composer Ludwig van Beethoven. It argues that the “blackwashing” of Beethoven against all historical likelihood is a failed attempt at historical revisionism—while endeavoring to claim Beethoven’s genius as a testament to black…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Welcome to Mya Poe! in the discussion
Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is very pleased to welcome Mya Poe as our newly elected forum executive committee member!
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Hearing Gender in George Lucas’s Galaxy in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAn essay on gender and music in the Star Wars films: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/01/hearing-gender-in-george-lucass-galaxy.html
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Kendra Leonard deposited Heavy Metal Elves in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEssay on music inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/10/heavy-metal-elves.html
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe deadline is approaching!
In order to participate in the 2018 Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit your abstract of 250-300 words to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18, 2017.
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Caren Irr deposited The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn examination of spatial themes in the emerging genre of environmental fiction. Originally presented as a talk at the Futures of American Literature event at Uppsala University (Sweden).
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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