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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
We have passed peer review. Please consider writing an essay for our text.
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Marisa Parham deposited ‘You Can’t Flow Over This’: Ursula Rucker’s Acoustic Illusion in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay brings together two texts, a letter to the editor written in experimental prose by the Black avant-garde Beat poet, Bob Kaufman, and “The Unlocking,” a spoken-word poem written and performed by Ursula Rucker that appears at the end of The Roots’ critically acclaimed rap album, Do You Want More??!?. By using the aural to disrupt expec…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWithin the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Kay Sohini deposited To the Stars and Beyond: Perceptions on The Starry Night in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoCreative non-fiction/semi-academic reflective piece on seeing Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night for the first time in person at the Museum of Modern Arts.
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited “Wear your eyes thus”: Toward a Cognitive Ecology of VR Shakespeare in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoHow will immersive virtual reality (VR) cognitively affect the audiences who interface with it to interpret Shakespeare performances? Current theories of performance and cognition are based on theatre and film audiences, but VR performances combine features of both media: a disembodied spectral presence, like a theatrical audience; and a flexible…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited “Wear your eyes thus”: Toward a Cognitive Ecology of VR Shakespeare in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoHow will immersive virtual reality (VR) cognitively affect the audiences who interface with it to interpret Shakespeare performances? Current theories of performance and cognition are based on theatre and film audiences, but VR performances combine features of both media: a disembodied spectral presence, like a theatrical audience; and a flexible…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoEnglish 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoNayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and quest…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Pritika Pradhan deposited At the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics (proposed Special Session panel for MLA 2020 Convention in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis panel examines the paradoxical centrality of marginal elements in nineteenth-century aesthetics, to trace how they revitalize the conceptual and cultural impact of form. Abstracts forthcoming shortly.
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Margaret Atwood’s _The Testaments_: Responses to _The Handmaid’s Tale_ Sequel in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis document contains brief statements about the approaches that the 7 roundtable panelists will take in responding to _The Testaments_, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to _The Handmaid’s Tale_.
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more] -
Diane Jakacki deposited REED London Online: Publish|Present|Discover|Read in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSophisticated digital platforms and infrastructures offer scholarly editors opportunities to make textual materials accessible and negotiable online. Still, we feel pressure to reify the passive reading experience within a web browser. The challenge lies in constructing (or reconstructing) our texts to best provide for dynamic text and data…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited La Teoría de la Literatura y la Literatura Comparada hoy: reflexiones in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoWhat is the current status of the discipline of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature? How has the work published by 452ºF. Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature contributed to the field? These questions are the starting point for the reflections included in these critic’s notes, which have been conceived as a collective te…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoFull collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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