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Laurie Rodrigues started the topic CFP MLA '18: Literary Studies in the Post-Truth Age in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCall for papers, Special Session to be proposed for the MLA’s 2018 Annual Convention. This session invites papers concerned with the stakes and importance of literary study in an era of misinformation and American cultural uncertainty. Areas of inquiry for discussion may include, but are not limited to:
– New (and/ or necessary) approaches to l…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
Fantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture. What kind of behavior do we expect from such conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it h…[Read more]
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Feisal G. Mohamed started the topic Closure of Duquesne University Press in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/07/duquesne-university-press-shut-down-later-year
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why Robots Go Astray in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. What kind of behavior do we expect from conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why Robots Go Astray in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. What kind of behavior do we expect from conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Fantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. What kind of behavior do we expect from conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello, and happy new year all!
Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community, East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities. As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello, and happy new year all!
Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community, East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities. As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years ago“How do I start a short story”? Edit
What method work best for you to start a short story? I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s “vomit in the morning, clean up in the afternoon” method. (Author of _Fahrenheit 451_, _The Martian Chronicles_, _The Illustrated Man_, etc.) Just allow your unconscious t…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic two cognitive panels at MLA (Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon) in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoI want to bring to your attention two exciting “cognitive” panels at MLA in Philadelphia, one this Thursday evening, one on Saturday afternoon. Below please find more information about these panels.
153. Cognition and Affect: Bad News
Thursday, 5 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 111B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
A special session
Presiding: Alan R…[Read more] -
Victor Ochoa posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
Hi, MLA, I found Paint on my Windows 10, and figured out how to reduce my photo size to put in places on the Internet, so now might folks be apt to follow my profile?: now they can see me, instead of my Gravatar of the Hotel Russell, lovely tho’ it is, photo from London on, guess what? a rainy day. OK, I may not be ready for my close-up for Mr. D…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Victor Ochoa posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow . . .
Take a look at the law man
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s on the best selling show
Is there life on Mars? – David Bowie
Wow . . . so that nasty Bob Dylan wins the Pulitzer, and nothing for poor old dead David Bowie. -
Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWhen you quote Sofel’s acknowledgment of “the horror filled underbelly of all that is detestable regarding which hardly anybody is particularly eager to discuss,” it mirrors the detestable act of electing a man to the US Presidency who has engaged in thoroughly criminal, evil, and loathsome behaviors, including marking a “C” for colored folk to…[Read more]
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