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Murat Öğütcü deposited A TALE OF TWO NATIONS: CHAUCER, HENRYSON, SHAKESPEARE, TROILUS AND CRISEYDE in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe matter of Troilus and Criseyde had been dealt in both England and Scotland in similar yet different ways from the late 14th to the early 17th century. In Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (ca. 1385), the conflict between worldly and heavenly love is depicted in a controversial way. Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid (ca. 1480) seems to give a Sco…[Read more]
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Murat Öğütcü deposited Against ‘others’ feet’: Reassessing Nationalism in Sidney and Spenser in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe critical tradition positions Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser among the pioneers of the nationalistic
movement in Early Modern England. From a historical point of view, this has been the result of the promotion of
Britishness by 19th and 20th century literary critics through their construction of national poets in the literary
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Murat Öğütcü deposited “Von Freunden und Fraktionen: Die Historiendramen von Shakespeare.” [Of Friends and Factions: Shakespeare‟s History Plays.] in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn the Late Elizabethan Period, factionalism complicated the notion of, especially, male friendship. The scarcity of
financial resources of the royal patronage, the arbitrary distribution of favours, and bottom-up pressures of patronees
further problematized a healthy relationship among patrons and patronees and among friends. The horizontal…[Read more] -
Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP East Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEast Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Christopher Lupke
University of Alberta
The study of literature and dialectical thinking has been around for a long time and is still going strong. What is less studied is the impact of dialectical thinking on East Asian literary texts. To be sure, Marxism has…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP "The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary" in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Black started the topic March 10 deadline reminder: CFP, Medieval and 16th-c French in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020
Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:
French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
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Elizabeth Black started the topic Friday deadline – Reminder: 16th-c French CFPs, MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)
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Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed Session Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum
Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia
World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in…[Read more]
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Chia-rong Wu posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities
ISSN: 1024-3631Special Issue: Sinophone Literature in the Global South
Guest Editors:
Min-xu Zhan, Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Chia-rong Wu, Senior Lecturer of the Global,…[Read more] -
John Garrison started the topic CFP: Forum Guaranteed Sessions for MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIf you’re thinking of attending the MLA convention next year in Toronto, please consider submitting an abstract for one of these sessions sponsored by the Renaissance and Early Modern Forum:
1. Gendered Vengeance
Exploring depictions of revenge that reinforce or question assumptions about gender, this guaranteed panel welcomes reconsiderations of…[Read more] -
David Holloway started the topic CFP MLA 2021 “Japanese Cultural Expressions After Hirohito” in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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