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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWhat follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe’s Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoSponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’m a disabled independent scholar with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote diversity in German Studies, insofar as…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature 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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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[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, 10 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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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 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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Stephen E. Lewis deposited “Philosopher d’une manière ‘mariale’: Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoA review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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