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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIt is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoNew directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPlease see abstract.
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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