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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Special issue of eHumanista/IVITRA on Llull in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoCongratulations, and thank you for the link. What a great resource.
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Mary Ann Newman started the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn case some members of the LLC Catalan Studies might not be aware of it, a flurry of translations has recently become available. I believe the latest is Private Life, by Josep Maria de Sagarra (Archipelago Books), which I am proud to have translated, but earlier this year Archipelago also published Life Embitters, Peter Bush’s translation of …[Read more]
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Henry Berlin started the topic Special issue of eHumanista/IVITRA on Llull in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’m happy to announce that “Arts of Finding Truth: Approaching Ramon Llull, 700 Years Later,” a special issue I edited for eHumanista/IVITRA, is now available, with excellent contributions from Amy Austin, Júlia Butinyà, Ricardo da Costa, Dominique de Courcelles, Gabriel Ensenyat, Roger Friedlein, Antonio Ortega Villoslada, Maribel Ripoll, Josep E…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Maragall a Itàlia al voltant de 1947 in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJust after the Second World War two Italian writers chose to look at the poetry of Joan Maragall. Montale’s version of the “Spiritual
Canto” has led to a variety of debates and interpretations, while the publication of a modest anthology of Catalan poets by Pasolini
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Mario Santana started the topic News on translation in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoUnder a program of the American Literary Translators Association, a translating mentorship has been created which includes Catalan. Currently, the experienced translator Ronald Puppo of the Universitat de Vic is helping the emerging translator Scott Shanahan with a translation of Mercè Rodoreda’s “Viatges i flors.” A mentorship lasts for one y…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López started the topic Escriptor de l'Any 2016-2017 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoEscriptor de l’Any
Organitzat per Roser Caminals, Novel.lista i professora de Llengua i Literatura Espanyoles (Hood College)
Escriptor de l’Any és un projecte dissenyat per incrementar la divulgació al Canadà i als Estats Units de la literatura catalana en traducció anglesa. Actualment, els esforços editorials son esporàdics, costosos i…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic NACS Conference Barcelona 2015 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoHola a tots,
Us faig cinc cèntims del Col·loqui de la NACS que es va celebrar a Barcelona a començament d’estiu. M’alegra poder dir que va anar molt bé perquè es va constatar la fortalesa i varietat de la catalanística. A continuació us en faig un resum. Per aquells que no vau poder assistir-hi, al resum trobareu els enllaços que reprodu…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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Carolina Gonzalez deleted the file: Silvia Marijuan’s handout from
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months ago -
Carolina Gonzalez uploaded the file: Silvia Marijuan's handout to
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoSilvia Marijuan’s talk was titled ‘Spanish vernacular use in college L2 language classrooms amongst Spanish heritage speakers in Washington, DC’
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Francisco Martinez-Ibarra started the topic Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2016 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham uploaded the file: Brunner & Diemer – The Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE) – MLA 2015 – Applied Linguistics to
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years agoBrunner & Diemer – Handout – MLA 2015 – Applied Linguistics
Session 562. Language Use in Multilingual Contexts, MLA 2015
Division of Applied Linguistics
This PDF contains information about The Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE) mentioned in Brunner & Diemer’s presentation
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Lee B. Abraham uploaded the file: Brunner & Diemer – Handout – MLA 2015 – Applied Linguistics to
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years agoSession 562. Language Use in Multilingual Contexts, MLA 2015
Division of Applied Linguistics
Handout: “It’s All in the Corpus: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Cultural and Intercultural Studies in the EFL Classroom”
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John Merritt Unsworth started the topic HathiTrust Research Center, proposals invited in the forum
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoThe HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a newly launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to HTRC tools and services. By working together with scholars, we facilitate comp…[Read more]
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