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Ross Wilson deposited Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis is the proposal for ‘Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861’, a (putative) panel for MLA 2024. Individual paper abstracts and other materials will follow.
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Afrofuturisme/Afropessimisme in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks to examine contemporary Francophone cultural productions (broadly defined from comics to novels and films) which provide a rich ground for imagining Blackness in the future. Is there a future after anti-Blackness? How do these cultural productions imagine collective liberation? Papers are invited to discuss joy and sorrow in…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Disgust in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis roundtable explores the rhetoric of disgust—along with its conceptual cousins (spleen, nausea, informe, abjection, etc.)—as generative forces for 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone thought. Speakers will examine dégoût as a complex, historically situated feeling that connects and binds even as it repels, drawing attention to margins,…[Read more]
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Atia Sattar started the topic NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.
“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoWhat is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP Conference: USES OF MODERNISM (Ghent, Belgium – 20-22 September 2023) in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
Members of this group may be interested in the following Call for Papers.
CFP Conference: Uses of Modernism – Ghent, 20-22 September 2023
The conference Uses of Modernism brings together scholars from various disciplines and specialisations to reconsider the Modernist concept in the wake of the post-colonial and global turn i…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TOMORROW SUNDAY: Panel “Words on Food” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?
Sunday, J…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TODAY: Panel “French Eyes on California” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.
Saturday, January 7
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level)
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Deborah Elise White started the topic Forum Exectuive Committee Suggestions in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello — Please email me with any suggestions you may have for people to serve on the forum executive Committee for CLCS Romanticism & 19th Century. (Every year needs new names so even if someone is not considered for this year, it’s good for us to have several names in mind.) My email: dwhite2@emory.edu Thanks!
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic TODAY: Roundtable on Démission/resignation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years agoPlease join us today for a roundtable on démission/resignation as a multifaceted motif and a critical stance in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone cultural and literary imagination, and on the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this dual phenomenon, whether it proceeds from the stasis of discontent or as an…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoContrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]
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Cheryl Farris-Clayton deposited On Dickinson in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoEssay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”
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Marisa Verna deposited E|C Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThisarticleaims at a better comprehension of the series of lectures that Joseph Czapski gave in the Soviet camp of Grazovietzbetween 1940 and 1941. The case of Czapski is well known, but his exceptional performance (of memory, and critical inquiry) deserves further investigation. Not surprisingly, the Polish painter…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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