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Alan Lopez deposited "Emerson's Bayonet" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends,” in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan be…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini deposited The fictive persons of a serious poem: on Vico's anthropology of "literature" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe present essay will explore legal areas of Giambattista Vico’s thought from a rhetorical and literary perspective. In particular, the essay will focus on the idea of «person» as it is investigated in De uno and New Science. The euristic quality of the notion of fictio iuris will be identified as generative core of the imaginative universal the…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic Extended, CFP Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Culture, Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSymposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and
Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP: ICLA Congress in Vienna: Comparative Gender/Queer Studies in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
5-Day Seminar Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Special issue of ELN on In/Security in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP: In/Security
Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individua…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: The Novel in or against World Literature (SNS 2016) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe Society for Novel Studies (SNS) invites proposals for fifteen-minute papers to be given at its biennial conference held at the University of Pittsburgh, May 13-14, 2016. For more information, visit http://novel.trinity.duke.edu/news/2015/07/08/sns-2016-call-for-papers.
Proposals should not exceed 200 words and are due by September 7, 2015.
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Marisa Verna deposited Etude sur le Symbolisme in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCe livre rassemble huit études sur la littérature symboliste, que Sergio Cigada publia en italien genre 1960 et 2010. Elles sont ici pour la première fois rassemblées, par les soins de ses élèves, et traduites en français. À la lumière d’une conception “interprétative et non didactique” de la critique littéraire, Cigada décèle chez Baudelaire l…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Vers un art total. Synesthésie théâtrale et dramaturgie symboliste in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe object of this article is the idea of theatrical synesthaesia, as it was developed into the relationship between painters and symbolist poets at the “Théâtre d’Art” directed by Paul Fort since november 1890 till march 1892. Aesthaetic theories of two of the most important Nabis painters (Maurice Denis and Emile Bernard) are examined in relatio…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo posted an update in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGood Day,
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. I teach French, French for Special Purposes, Francophone Literature of the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), Francophone women writing, and Translation.
My area of research is mostly in Haitian and French Antillean Literature. I am currently…[Read more] -
Claire Oberon Garcia started the topic Is anyone in Paris for the summer? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues in the Francophone Literature and Cultures Forum~ I was happy to see that, although it took a year, several of our 292 members introduced themselves and their work to our group. Such a range of interesting projects!
I am in Paris until 10 August, researching one of “my” women, the Franco-Congolese journalist, Jeanne Vialle, and…[Read more]
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Susan M. Kalter replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would recommend Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita.
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Jennifer Cazenave replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello, everyone,
I am a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the French and Francophone Studies Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. My research focuses on French and Francophone cinema (with a particular focus on film and genocide). Currently, I am working on representations of the Khmer Rouge regime in film and art.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI read Player Piano about 1972 and really only remembered the outlines of it and that American citizen translated as slave when I reread it last week. Now I’ve just published a book that traces colored people in Western Utopian literature from the Civil War to 2000, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, I realize that I did not see Player Piano as a…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI want to thank everyone who has replied (by email and post) to my query so far — and to say please keep the recommendations coming! I have received many interesting ideas. At some point, probably several months into the future, I plan to share a master list with you that results from this query and related research. – Christopher Michaelson
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Corbin Treacy replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGreetings!
I’m an assistant professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. My research focuses on contemporary Maghrebi literature and film, with a particular interest in Algerian cultural production. I’m currently working on a book project, Aesthetics and Aftermath in Algeria, which…[Read more]
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Richard J. Douglass-Chin replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoOne novel that comes to mind is Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, a Kafkaesque and extremely nihilistic novel about present-day India, globalization, and some of the corruption in Indian business and politics. Some criticize the book as succumbing to a kind of neo-Orientalism, while others laud it as exposing some of the serious problems facing In…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHi, everyone,
I’m an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and my research focuses primarily on discourses of the body in the contemporary literature of the Americas. I publish more on Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Anglophone authors in the Americas, but I do incorporate some Francophone American…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHaiti: Beyond Commemorations & Boundaries (University of Chicago, May 12-14, 2016; Deadline: August 14, 2015)
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