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Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoUsing Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: Japan after 1900 info in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Join us at our 1st MLA meeting! in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive committee…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOur LLC East Asian Business Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott. (see below)
Please forward this info to your panelists and anyone else I might have missed from the list of officers.
Thanks and see you soon.Monika Dix
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:
48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW MarriottA special session
Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff started the topic Gerry Canavan on NPR's "On Point" discussing science fiction and film in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Speculative Fiction Forum’s own Gerry Canavan, Assistant Prof. of 20th and 21st Century Literature at Marquette University, was a guest on the NPR show “On Point” on Friday Dec. 18th to discuss science fiction and film. Check it out:
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point-with-tom-ashbrook
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
– Nicky Agate (Managin…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic New Japanese Forum created!! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
If you aren’t already a member, head on over to “LLC Japanese since 1900” and join. We are now official! Rosemary Feal informs us:
“I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Council, acting on the recommendation of the Program Committee, has approved the creation of the forum LLC Japanese since 1900.
The first official sessions…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoIn an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited Applied Blake: Milton's Response to Empire in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoStudying William Blake means studying the event of history, the way history merges with and emerges within theology, politics and philosophy. William Blake’s poetry has had a precarious relationship with history; his work resonates from very specific historical concerns and yet also seems to struggle against being confined to any formal h…[Read more]
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Ed Finn started the topic Climate Fiction Contest in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
Enter ASU’s Climate Fiction Short Story Contest
First prize: $1,000
Judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson
Submit your story!
Climate change is a creeping calamity, ever-present but so gradual and pervasive that it can be tough to grasp. Climate fiction, an emerging subgenre of speculative storytelling, can help us imagine human…[Read more] -
Hugh M. Richmond deposited Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis comparative study in the evolution of subjectivity in European literature during the Renaissance ascribes it to the impact of the Reformation on the public representation of authorial identity, differing from Stephen Greenblatt’s later application of Foucault to six Tudor authors.
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Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoA semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Central Mystery: Conversion Experiences in Selected Works of Flannery O’Connor in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlthough Flannery O’Connor’s fiction has been subjected to criticism of all types and although she is known for her interest in religious matters, no one prior to this has done an in-depth study on the presentation of conversion in her fiction. With William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience as a basis for both definition and struc…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Privileging of Visio over Vox in the Mystical Experiences of Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIn twelfth‐century Germany, where mysticism was a common phenomenon, Hildegard of Bingen and her visions were readily accepted — making it all the more significant that, despite the generally receptive conditions, Hildegard went to such trouble to make sure her visions and her writings were endorsed by the Church. In contrast, Joan of Arc, liv…[Read more]
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