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Robin E. Visel started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Doris Lessing Studies in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 1950s, when she joined an influx of immigrants to London…[Read more] -
Mary McAleer Balkun started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Close Reading, Slow Reading, and Teaching Literature in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis session is sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature:
Whether instructors opt to have students engage in “close reading” or “slow reading,” there is an increasing interest in encouraging them to spend more time lingering over texts–reading carefully, attentively, and thoughtfully. In large part a response to a cultural…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Please consider submitting: A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Lit.? in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years agoPlease 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 “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more] -
Steve Rowland started the topic Call for participants: Survey for development of Shakespeare Central in the forum
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,
CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.
<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]
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Jonathan Evans started the topic CFP From classroom to workplace (U. Portsmouth, 8 November 2014) in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 12 years ago<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>14<sup>th</sup> Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>8 November 2014</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>From classroom to workplace</b></p>
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Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago<h3>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h3>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years ago<h1>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h1>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Indrani Mitra started the topic South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThe annual meeting of the South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will take place today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G. Please join us.
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic new online issue of CANADA & BEYOND in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCanada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,
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Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago222. Ethics and Postcolonialism
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
1. “Ethics in Deep Time,” Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia Univ.
2. “Cosmopolitan Rates of Interest,” Tejumola Olaniyan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
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Anjali Prabhu uploaded the file: Robbins to
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago222. Ethics and Postcolonialism
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
1. “Ethics in Deep Time,” Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia Univ.
2. “Cosmopolitan Rates of Interest,” Tejumola Olaniyan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Responding: Anjali Prabhu, W…[Read more]-
Hi there,
Its after Dec. 15! Where should I go to see the short versions of the papers?
Thanks.
Shazia-
I support the creation of this new group.
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Proust and Space Proust e lo spazio to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis book collects some articles on a topic often ignored by proustian sholars: Proust and space. The volume is available on the link:
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Les registres linguistiques dans la Recherche du Temps Perdu. L'Affaire Dreyfus to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoMany are the works on the language of proustian characters and the unavoidable critical text by Gérard Genette, Proust et le langage indirect, has by now shown that the emergence of the characters’ deepest psychological dimension is necessarily expressed through an often swerving language: mistakes, omissions, shifts in meaning, and often an un…[Read more]
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