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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWithin the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Including E-Literature in Mainstream Cultural Critique: The Case of Graphic Art by Khaled Al Jabri in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay uses the image-based work of Emirati cartoonist Khaled Al Jabri to address concerns of technological dependence to reconsider our use of screens. The production of electronic literature requires technologies responsible for undeniable hazards unique to today’s information and gadget age. As represented in Al Jabri’s graphic art, these…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited Myth and Mithraism in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWhat T. S. Eliot called the “mythic method,” even in its modern form, was not an invention of Modernism. A significant precursor is Thomas Hardy, whose Mayor of Casterbridge has long been appreciated for its mythological structure and wealth of allusion. Here I suggest a new addition to mythological interpretation of the novel: the Greco-Roman dei…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Margaret Atwood’s _The Testaments_: Responses to _The Handmaid’s Tale_ Sequel in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis document contains brief statements about the approaches that the 7 roundtable panelists will take in responding to _The Testaments_, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to _The Handmaid’s Tale_.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The (True) Lord of the Rings in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe critic, as guide, is here in the penultimate of a four-part series on “Lord of the Rings,” suggested to be, if not Sarumon himself (Sarumon’s voice is used), certainly someone who could readily imagine him as someone who could have been presented in the text as a flat-out ally, if he himself wasn’t relegated to being the reader’s guardian and…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArgues that J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is an adventure in reverse, an “argument” for “your” regression. Rather than play with your ability to maybe succeed in threatening environments, it confirms your worst suspicions about yourself, lending you in mood to cling to others in a master-slave relationship, so long as they’ll agree to…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader’s Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDelineates how much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Fellowship of the Ring” is about preparing Frodo especially so that if caught out alone, he’d never dare venture a decent listen to anyone who might attempt to sway him to consider the due fate for the Ring, other than according to Gandalf’s specifications. Positions the text as one that bates the reader…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDiscussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discu…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Medieval Literature in the Contact Zone — review essay in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExemplaria review essay by Sarah Elliott Novacich of recent books by Simon Gaunt, Jonathan Hsy, and Shirin Khanmohamadi on medieval contact zones.
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV Studies for all? On Open Access and Publishing in TV and Media Studies in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPersonal perspective on the current state of open access and publishing practices in the fields of Television and Media Studies, and pointers to a variety of scholar-led initiatives and options of where scholars can actually publish open access in their field without the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs).
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited White Noise and the Supermarket Aesthetic in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years agoDon DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) has been thoroughly examined as a work of postmodern fiction, with particular attention to media and simulacra, and from the perspective of science and technology, focusing on chemistry and toxicity. In this presentation, I look at the novel from an art historical perspective, considering the relations it bears to…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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