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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the 20th and 21st Century American Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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Ruth Malka started the topic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Sephardic Forum Members,
I hope this message find you all well. Since the elections are coming up soon, I would like to let you know the reasons why I am a candidate to take part of our forum’s committee.
The dissertation I am currently writing as a fourth year PhD student at McGill University deals with three antisemitic texts by the m…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSince the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative will expire in January 2018, the next forum delegate election is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoWhen it meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new forum representative in the Delegate Assembly. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has b…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline approaches…
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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A. E. B. Coldiron started the topic MLA 2017–Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture (on translation and Edmund Spenser) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHi, all; at the risk of self promotion, I forward this:
[The following comes to us from Dr Jane Grogan.]
Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoOceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on March 31-April…[Read more] -
Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Call for papers in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017).
“Aula lírica” is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays, notes, and reviews, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, on all periods, movements, and app…[Read more] -
Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Forum Delegate Election 2017 in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMembership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Adapting Desires in Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoBetween 1694 and 1757, there were at least five adaptations of Behn’s “The History of the Nun; or The Fair Vow Breaker”. Modern critics have focused on Thomas Southerne’s play, “The Fatal Marriage: or, the Innocent Adultery” (1694), David Garrick’s 1757 revision of Southerne’s play into the tragedy, “Isabella: or, the Fatal Marriage,” and Jane…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Metaproceduralism: The Stanley Parable and the Legacies of Postmodern Metafiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMost critics of contemporary literature have reached a consensus that what was once called “postmodernism” is over and that its signature modes—metafiction and irony—are on the wane. This is not the case, however, with videogames. In recent years, a number of self-reflexive games have appeared, exemplified by Davey Wreden’s The Stanley Parable (…[Read more]
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Jedidiah Evans deposited Thomas Wolfe, Transnationalism, and the Really Deep South in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper argues that there is a need to look beyond what is merely “homeward” in the work of Thomas Wolfe. I take up Wai Chee Dimock’s expansive conception of American literature as “a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in and out of other geographies, other languages and cultures,” demonstrating how Thomas…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Breaking Open Utopia: Science Fiction as Critique in the GDR in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this article I offer a reading of Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s novel Andymon (1982) in order to show how science fiction was able to function as critique in the German Democratic Republic. Andymon, a popular novel in a popular genre, establishes an extended analogy between spatial closure and temporal foreclosure to challenge the re…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Simply Reproducing Reality – Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article reads Albert Renger-Patzsch’s photographic theory and practice in the context of Benjamin’s and Brecht’s dismissals of his work in order to recover the paradoxical interplay between documentation and perceptual training central to debates about photography as a specifically modern medium during the 1920s. I argue that, rather than…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] -
Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo started the topic CFP/Convocatoria: Latin American Speculative Fiction in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers (anticipated publication date early 2018; español sigue abajo)
Volume 31 Latin American Speculative Fiction (www.paradoxa.com)
Editors: Debra Ann Castillo (debra.castillo@gmail.com) and Liliana Colanzi (lc566@cornell.edu)
Speculative fiction provides complex perspectives on the changes that technological advances produce in…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Call for Papers "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”
Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]
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