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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited A BRAND NEW BEGGAR in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoa collection of poetry
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bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El manuscrito del ‘Cancionero de Baena’ (PN1): Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex of the Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicological aspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited “Something Foreign In It”: A Study of an Iranian Translation of Whitman’s Image in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoAddressing Walt Whitman’s reception in Iran, the present essay focuses on the front cover of a book-length translation of Whitman into Persian to study how Whitman’s image is visually translated for an Iranian audience. Among literary discourses of contemporary Iran, the one that associates poetry with mysticism plays the most significant role in…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoGothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoTo TC Women’s and Gender Studies…
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, v…[Read more]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera started the topic CFP: The Nineteenth-Century in 2019 Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth (http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-catriona-seth) and Pura…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline to submit your proposal for the conference “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” is Friday, November 30, 2018. The keynote speakers will be Catriona Seth and Pura Fernández. We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Cal State, Long Beach in…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am a Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY Binghamton. For a research project I am doing on the canon that is taught—or the teaching canon, as I’m calling it—I would like to know what works you are teaching or listing on your syllabi for American literature survey courses for any period. I would appreciate receiving de-i…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited Review of Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReview of Peter J. Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited Review of The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReview of The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSituates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited “«Este rastro de confeso»: Converso Poets and Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Cancioneros.” in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAbout four decades ago, the two modern editions of the Cancionero de obras de burlas (19OB),2 of Domínguez (1978) and Jauralde Pou-Bellón
Cazabán (1974), finnally condemned to its deserved obscurity Usoz y Río’s 1841 edition. Even though both his edition and his library on spiritual
topics have an evident archaeological interest (Vilar), the q…[Read more] - Load More
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