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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an ever-growing…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society An…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more] -
LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling International Conference University of Toronto, C in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling
International Conference
University of Toronto, Canada
May 24–26, 2017
How can one begin to apprehend that which is not of the order of representation, that which cannot be communicated in any way whatsoever, and that which cannot be rendered immanent through literature, cinema, painting, or by a…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited "Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the pas…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE on the Commons in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” Have a look at t…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Deadline Approaching: Gender & the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Sept. 1 deadline for the Studies in the Novel special issue, “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupation of the American West” is approaching. Full CFP and submission guidelines below.
Call for Papers: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a s…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoEnthymema International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)
Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoEnthymema International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)
Call for Papers: Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology
On the intersection of the tenth anniversary of his death (2007) and of the fortieth anniversary of the first publication of his mos…[Read more]
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