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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Abstracts are being accepted for a non-guaranteed panel at MLA 2019 in Chicago to be proposed jointly by the GS Drama & Performance and TC Age Studies forums. Responding to the growing interest in age/aging among theatre and performance scholars, the panel seeks papers examining any aspect of the life course from childhood to old age, in…[Read more]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Fahri Öz deposited “‘To Take Were to Purloin’: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems by Christina Rossetti” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoChristina Rossetti, sexuality, narrative poems
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Fahri Öz deposited Drum-Taps: Whitman’s Problematic Legacy as a War Poet in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis paper analyzes Walt Whitman’s American Civil War poems in his collection Drum-Taps
in comparison with the poetry written by British soldier-poets of WWI. These poems present
Whitman as a problematic model for future generations of war poets since he hardly ever
questions the meaninglessness of bloodshed in the battlefield, a trait which i…[Read more] -
Matthew K. Gold deposited Response to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.
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Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Jessica Hurley deposited Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis article analyzes the connections between Lorde’s representations of blindness in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and its connection to lesbian sexuality.
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited English Political Prophecy in the Welsh Marches, 1450-1650 in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoFrom the twelfth century to the seventeenth, political prophecy was prominent among English literary genres no less than in English political life. Derived from Welsh poetic tradition via Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin History of the Kings of Britain, prophecy reached all social classes. Prophetic texts influenced the decisions of kings, shaped p…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoDocument annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited The Garip (Strange) Movement: A Poetic Return to “Naturality” or a Deep Ecological Reappraisal of “Nature”? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn 1941, Orhan Veli Kanik, Melih Cevdet Anday, and Oktay Rifat Horozcu, published a poetic manifesto, called Garip (or Strange), that heralded a new period in modern Turkish poetry, known as “The Garip Movement.” In the manifesto, Kanik, Anday, and Rifat declared a total aesthetic break from the conventions of the classical Ottoman poetry, and cha…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited Jude the liminal: A catastrophic pursuit? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years agoThomas Hardy’s last novel Jude the Obscure (1895) is centred on its working-class
protagonist Jude Fawley’s efforts first to become a scholar, then his experiences of
resisting the orthodoxies of his society and lastly defying Christianity as a restrictive
social force on the individuals. This paper aims to discuss Jude’s liminal character…[Read more] -
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