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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Colleen M. Ryan posted an update in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI am honored to have received a nomination to candidacy for the LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum. With 20 years of combined experience as director of language program and director of undergraduate studies at two different universities, I bring a holistic perspective to questions of articulation, assessment, classroom teaching, and…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein deposited Approximating the University: The Information Literacy Practices of Novice Researchers in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn a seminal essay, David Bartholomae asserts that novice writers need to “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.” Instructors and librarians who work with beginning academic writers confirm Bartholomae’s assertion. Our research asks how, precisely, novice writer-researchers go about inventing the university before they…[Read more]
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Laura R. Braunstein deposited Approximating the University: The Information Literacy Practices of Novice Researchers in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Composition on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn a seminal essay, David Bartholomae asserts that novice writers need to “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.” Instructors and librarians who work with beginning academic writers confirm Bartholomae’s assertion. Our research asks how, precisely, novice writer-researchers go about inventing the university before they…[Read more]
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Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Oct Meeting NYC Chapter of The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe New York City Chapter
of
The Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
presents:
ROYA BIGGIE
“Inter-Elemental Sympathies and
Cross-Species Compassion:
Caring for the Hybrid Body in Titus Andronicus”
ROYA BIGGIE, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, is also a PhD Candidate in English at the Gradu…[Read more] -
Anastasia Salter deposited Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoScott Westerfeld’s Uglies imagines a society where the body is under total control and the universal beauty of the body after dramatic reconstructive surgery at sixteen guarantees that everyone will be “equal.” To the young adult readership, such a world holds understandable appeal: the idea of avoiding the pains of coming to age in one’s own bod…[Read more]
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Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017, "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)
Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysi…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoREVISED WELCOME:
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature (RBL) group. NOTE: We are calling for formation of a panel on RBL at next MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust B…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Teaching Rust Belt Literature in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. Consider offering an MLA panel on RBL.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCertainly! We can also include Northern Mexico’s mining and steel areas.
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” Have a look at t…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi Nicky,
Here is the link to my recently published co-authored book (with Shubhangi Vaidya) entitled Embodying Mothering: Perspectives from Contemporary India. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/embodying-motherhood/<
Best wishes!Anu Aneja
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Kelly Sultzbach replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello Nicky and my fellow teacher-scholars,
I appreciate the chance to share my forthcoming book publication: Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden. It is coming out from Cambridge UP in September.
I will follow Petar’s lead and include the official link…[Read more]
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Val Dumond replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago
After a five year struggle, my book, American-English: The Official Guide, has been published and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle. Not a “rule” book, it is aimed at writers and emphasizes the benefits of creating Your Style Manual and recording personal choices of grammar and punctuation usage. A special section offers…[Read more]
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Petar Penda replied to the topic Do you have news to share? in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Nicky,
Thank you for this opportunity to share our news.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing published The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare in May, a collection of essays I edited.
Here’s the link to the book: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-whirlwind-of-passion
With best wishes,
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