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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
RCWS Creative Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDavid Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct ‘authors’ using anything above the nineteen most-common words…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Candidate Introduction – MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
I am a candidate for the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum executive committee. Now that the voting period has opened, and following MLA recommendations, I would like to post a brief introduction.
I am professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, where I serve as associate chair and graduate coordinator in…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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Farrah Lehman Den deposited History of Scholarship Project (MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoObjective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.
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Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAbstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]
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Christopher Gascón posted an update in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoTranslator Dakin Matthews will be the Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker at the 2018 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) Symposium, Saturday, April 14, 2018 (see below for abstract submission details). Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (of potential interest to those working on narrative and surrealism/dadaism)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Rom…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 wor…[Read more] -
Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945
deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the guest-editor James W. McM…[Read more]
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2018. Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied France. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin — his work and/or his life — this panel examines dangerous passages of all sorts. Papers might…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Pornography in the Library in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn a book review of Story of O, part of which appeared on the cover of early paperback editions, Eliot Fremont-Smith wrote that its publication in 1965 marked “the end of any coherent restrictive application of the concept of pornography to books.” This essay explores the implications of that significant shift in censorship policy for lib…[Read more]
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Mihai Mindra posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCall for Panel proposals for the 32nd European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference
4 – 7 April 2018, King’s College London, University College London, and the British Library
Panel Title: “Fictional Representations of North American Ideological Environment/ Space and Place Divis…[Read more] - Load More
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