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Susan Oliver uploaded the file: Call for Papers: MLA Convention 2019 NASSR Session Transatlantic Romanticisms Reviewed to
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTHE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, CHICAGO, JANUARY 3-6, 2019
SESSION SPONSORED BY THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM (NASSR)
Proposals are invited for the following guaranteed session sponsored by NASSR at the 2019 MLA. NASSR is an MLA-affiliated organisation.
TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISMS REVIEWED
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Kevin Brock deposited The ‘FizzBuzz’ Programming Test: A Case-Based Exploration of Rhetorical Style in Code in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoEvery code text is informed by stylistic decisions that impact how the text is interpreted and understood. While software developers have long discussed concerns of style in regards to writing code, scholars of computation would benefit from a rhetorical approach to style, an approach that links style to substance and sees style as situated and…[Read more]
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Kevin Brock deposited Enthymeme as Rhetorical Algorithm in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe enthymeme, while serving as the central basis for heuristic invention, also works at the local or sentence level as a rhetorically oriented algorithmic procedure through which a rhetor determines the most probable success in persuading an audience to action.
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Kevin Brock deposited One Hundred Thousand Billion Processes: Oulipian Computation and the Composition of Digital Cybertexts in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoScholars of, or interested in, rhetoric have an opportunity to build upon the emerging body of work from the fields of software studies and critical code studies in order to explore the potential for meaning-making made possible through code and its expression(s). Over the last decade, rhetoric has significantly expanded to incorporate image,…[Read more]
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Zane Koss deposited ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer’s Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years agoRecent scholarship has focused on the flowering of poetry that engaged with geographic and spatial logics in the United States in the years following the Second World War, notably in Lytle Shaw’s 2013 study Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Alongside such works as William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maxim…[Read more]
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Janine Beichman deposited Yoel Hoffmann as Japanologist: Japanese Death Poems in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years agoDiscussion of Yoel Hoffmann’s book “Japanese Death Poems”
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited “The Sense of That Crush I feel at Certain Times, Even Now”: Jacob Stroyer and the Defense of Fort Sumter in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the summer of 1864, fourteen-year-old Jacob Stroyer was sent to work in Fort Sumter. He did not go willingly. Stroyer was a slave owned by the wealthy Mrs. Matthew R. Singleton and was sent from the large Kensington plantation outside Columbia, SC to labor for the Confederate cause. The Confederate Corps of Engineers called upon slave owners to…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited John Boyle O’Reilly and Moondyne (1878) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoArrested for treason against the British Crown and deported to the penal colonies of Australia, the Irish revolutionary John Boyle O’Reilly managed to escape to the United States and within a few years became one of Boston’s most prominent political and literary figures, one of the best known Irish immigrants in the United States and one of the…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.
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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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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.
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Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.
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Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.
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Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] -
Rebeca Ruth Gould started the topic ERC postdoc positions in Persian and Arabic literary theory in the discussion
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years agoI am writing here to announce two postdoc positions in Persian and Arabic literary theory respectively for my European Research Council-funded project in Global Literary theory (described in more detail at the website here: <span…[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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