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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Is there a Beat Studies organization? in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWhat a great question! There IS an organization for Beat Studies.
Visit http://beatstudies.org/ to learn about the Beat Studies Association, which promotes Beat Studies, publishes The Journal of Beat Studies, and is a great repository for Beat scholars. Membership information is there too.
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – NeMLA 2019 – Transnational Beat Generation in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoCall For Papers: The Transnational Beat Generation
Moderator: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” asked Jack Kerouac. Apparently across many borders, because that hip, counterculture Beat Generation impact has lasted. This panel invites papers which explore how Beat Gen…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help Us Brainstorm in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAs we at GS AutoFiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!
1- What pressing issues in the field of Autofiction s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Race in Chicago Story: Farrell “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street” in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoRESEARCHGATE:
Update on Rust Belt Lit. Projects for July 19, 2018James T. Farrell’s (d. 1979) 1950 short story “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street, A Story” is set during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
LINK: https:…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited “Modernist Jane: Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDespite their commitment to Ezra Pound’s commandment to “make it new!:” modernist authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, and Thornton Wilder referred to Jane Austen surprisingly often in their public and private writings. Although they excoriated her sexual inexperience and limited…[Read more]
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Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso started the topic CfP NeMLA 19| Contesting the Gaze: Gender & Genre in Hispanic Women’s Filmmaking in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoContesting the Gaze: Gender and Genre in Hispanic Women’s Filmmaking
(Proposed Roundtable for NeMLA 2019 in Washington, D.C.)In Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger notes that the idea of gaze has been traditionally defined as masculine, for there is an underlying assumption that “men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselv…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Musical Mimesis in Orphans of the Storm in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn this essay I explore the use of musical mimesis in the score for D. W. Griffith’s 1921 film Orphans of the Storm. I demonstrate that the score, created by Louis F. Gottschalk and William Frederick Peters, offers coherence through the use of central themes and the employment of several characteristic leitmotivs; provides recognizable musical c…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoWhat are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]
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William Lenz started the topic CFP: Travel & Tourism at 2019 Popular Culture Conference in Washington DC in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Travel and Tourism Studies
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
2019 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Wardman Park Marriott, Washington DC
Wednesday, April 17, to Saturday, April 20, 2019
For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org
For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/nationa…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare Theatre Company’ s Macbeth and the Limits of Multiculturalism.” Early Modern Culture 13 (2018): 240-246 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe STC Macbeth’s setting and predominantly multiethnic cast brought to mind Orson Welles’s landmark 1936 Macbeth which was set in Haiti and featured an all-black cast. In both cases, the ethnicity and race of the cast matched that of the characters and cultures in the adaptation’s respective universe. Tommy’s production engaged in two models…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited To Want and Want Not: Manifestations of Desire in “Barbie-Q” by Sandra Cisneros and الأريكة (“The Couch”) by فاطمة حمد المزروعي (Fatima Hamad Al Mazrouei) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago“Barbie-Q” (1991) by Chicana Sandra Cisneros and “The Couch” (2010) by Emirati Fatima H. Al Mazrouei lend themselves to a comparative study for several reasons. Both short stories present female narrators who desire the object identified in the title of each story. In each story, this item carries significant symbolic value. Both poetic prose t…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited The Pleasures of Polyglossia in Emirati Cinema: Focus on From A to B and Abdullah in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoPolyglot films highlight the coexistence of multiple languages at the level of dialogue and narration. Even the notoriously monolingual Hollywood film industry has recently seen an increase in polyglot productions. Much of Europe’s polyglot cinema reflects on postwar migration. Hamid Naficy has coined the phrase ” accented cinema ” to define…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Or Not to Mother? Astrid Roemer’s Lijken op liefde (looks like love) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago‘Lijken op liefde’ (“Looks Like Love”; 1997) is the second novel in Astrid Roemer’s “Suriname Trilogy.” Alternating narrative perspectives and time, the three texts revolve around the country’s independence from Holland (in 1975) and the impact this historical process has had on the population. With an emphasis on the potential of creolizatio…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited A Vindication of Vernacular: Bennett, Goodison, Hippolyte, and Walcott in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay identifies four major factors responsible for the use of vernacular in Anglophone Caribbean poetry. Analyses of selected texts by Lorna Goodison, Louise Bennett, Kendel Hippolyte, and DerekWalcott illustrate that these four factors include the representation of working class characters, subversive protests against the imposition of…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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