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Stuart C. F. Christie replied to the topic Establishing a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoI support the proposal for a new forum in Modern and Contemporary Chinese.
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Establishing a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIf there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum. We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Establishing a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoIf there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum.
We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Kafka_vs_Materialism to
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoA new preface for Essential Kafka – in honor of Walter H. Sokel.
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months ago2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Comparative Children's Lit panel at MLA 2015 in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoWatch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!
“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more] -
Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2015: CFP "Immigration and Comics" in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.
Recently, the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Pari…[Read more]
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Abby Goode started the topic CFP "Sustainability and Population," MLA 2015 in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>”Sustainability and Population”
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<div>This panel invites papers that examine the intersections of “sustainability” and “population” in literature. Papers may consider how race, demography, biopolitics, fertility, economics, agriculture, and spatial distribution help clarify, illuminate, and evaluate “sustainability”—what literary…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Comparative Studies of the Long (or Short) 20th Century. in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoMLA-style calendar dates (in this case, 1900-2000) as markers of emergence or deliquescence of cultural or literary formations are obviously artificial, especially when the use of alternate periodization systems (e.g., Spanish generational, modern Japanese by emperor name, etc.) is taken into consideration. Yet such dating is also apt to take on…[Read more]
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoFor the session on reading comparative literature, the division is really interested in the ways in which new directions in reading have influenced, affected or perhaps not affected comparative literature. Thanks
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]-
greetings! the texts below may be of interest:
1) Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India, 2013. ISBN 9789382993667. 538 pages, bibliography, index. h…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee replied to the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoYes, I really meant the 2015 MLA…
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Brad Evans started the topic Possible MLA Division Changes in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:
During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels that the general shift from “…[Read more]
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