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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI am late for technical problems in this website.
An Eye for an Eye is a historical interpretation of 9/11 that challenges mainstream media representation of the same and October is a deep meditation on the attempt to counter and assimilate traumatic experience. So I highly recommend these two works for our ongoing discussion.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPlease, wait. I will reply very soon
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSorry I’m so late to reply. I am unfamiliar with the first item above, and am surprising myself not to be familiar with the Gluck book, since I keep up with most of her work. I very much like the rest of the list. At risk of getting slightly off-topic, would you agree that fiction writers have written about 9/11 and its aftermaths more and…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSir,
Thank you a lot for your interest in post 9/11 poetry, especially in Claudia Rankine. The primary literature I have chosen for our discussion is as follows,
1. An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson.
2. Poetry After 9/11; An Anthology of New York Poets by Denis Loy Johnson and Valerie…[Read more] -
John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI’m very interested, especially as US poetry in the second half of the past century seemed concerned with the private and now, with the provocations of 9/11 and Claudia Rankine, poets are being urged to become more public.
John Streamas
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Joydeep Chakraborty started the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would to start a discussion on post 9/11 American poetry. Interested members are reauested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of 21st century american poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Mary Dockray-Miller deposited “Judith of Flanders and Her Books: Patronage, Piety, and Politics in mid-eleventh century Europe” in Telling Tales and Crafting Books, Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren, eds. Dorsey A. Armstrong, Shaun F. D. Hughes, and Alexander L. Kaufman. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016, 267-322. in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay analyzes the illustration sequences of the four magnificent Gospel books made for Judith of Flanders within the context of the political chaos in pre-Conquest England. These deluxe display books indicate one of the ways that literacy and literary patronage provided cultural legitimacy and social status for secular women in the late…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute (Jun 19-25) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 – SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2017.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement (Creative Common License) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Noreen O'Connor started the topic Call for Papers: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield (due 3/15) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Elizabeth von Arnim Society and the Katherine Mansfield Society welcome scholars interested in Women’s Studies to the “
Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference” which will be held 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CaliforniaConference web sit…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Keep the Aspidistra Flying in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA '18: Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature
What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative persuasion.…[Read more]
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