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Gulsah Gocmen deposited The Garip (Strange) Movement: A Poetic Return to “Naturality” or a Deep Ecological Reappraisal of “Nature”? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoIn 1941, Orhan Veli Kanik, Melih Cevdet Anday, and Oktay Rifat Horozcu, published a poetic manifesto, called Garip (or Strange), that heralded a new period in modern Turkish poetry, known as “The Garip Movement.” In the manifesto, Kanik, Anday, and Rifat declared a total aesthetic break from the conventions of the classical Ottoman poetry, and cha…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited Jude the liminal: A catastrophic pursuit? in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThomas Hardy’s last novel Jude the Obscure (1895) is centred on its working-class
protagonist Jude Fawley’s efforts first to become a scholar, then his experiences of
resisting the orthodoxies of his society and lastly defying Christianity as a restrictive
social force on the individuals. This paper aims to discuss Jude’s liminal character…[Read more] -
Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoFor those of you planning to be at the MLA-
This year there is a collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums. Paired with this is the companion session “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media,” which the LLC Japanese since 1900…[Read more]
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Liana Chen started the topic MLA 2018: Ming/Qing LLC Forum Informal Gathering THURSDAY in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear friends and colleagues, hope this find you well. There will be an informal gathering for all the LLC Ming/Qing Chinese forum members on
Thursday, Jan. 4, 8:45-10:00 p.m. in the New York Hilton Midtown, room Conference C.
All are welcome to join us to discuss proposals and session ideas for the 2019 MLA convention.
Looking forward to seeing…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic The Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur is now online! in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAnnouncement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:
The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAnnouncement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:
The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago賀 春
謹んで新年のお慶びを申し上げます
本年が昨年にも増した良き年となりますよう、
皆様のご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。LLC Japanese since 1900の執行委員一同
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David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)
Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Ritualization as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEarly works of dramatic criticism seeking to draw parallels between ritual and drama in Africa concentrated on examining the dramatic characteristics of ritual to see how drama evolved from ritual. However, a closer application of the theories of Girard, Schechner, Smith, Hubert Mauss and Turner reveal new perspectives on the interaction between…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)
Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]
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Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear All,
An executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2018, 1:45-3:00 p.m., room Madison 4, in the Sheraton New York Times Square.
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 3: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Stage 3 revision sets up the Theory Palette with hues and tones of green (author, history, and nature), yellow (culture), purple (psyche), grey (text), red (reader), dark blue (literature), light blue (language), rose (embodiment/perception), and hot pink (intersectional feminisms).
Airbrush and pencil tools suggest color blending without…[Read more]
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Monika Dix posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoI just received notification that I was elected to the executive committee of the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Thanks to everyone who supported my nomination. Since this is last minute, I am not sure if I will be able to make it to NY, but I will try my best. Do we have a LLC Japanese to 1900 business meeting scheduled?
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 2: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis Theory Palette revision layers in 12 theoretical approaches; it also problematizes the perceiving-subject through a stylized human palette. The thought and speech bubbles gesture toward the problems of apperception and expression after René Magritte’s “Le fils de l’homme” (The Son of Man 1928-29) and “La Trahison des Images” (The Treachery…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Panel for Chicago MLA Con in 2019 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCFP: Chicago MLA Convention Panel
There has never before been a Rust Belt Discussion Group at the MLA, Not all of the Midwest is de-industrialized. Arcelor-Mittal Steel is producing as much steel in East Chicago as in peak years, but now is owned by an Indian firm.
This call for participation reaches a number of groups and why your group. Using…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoInformation on the Business Meeting of the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum at 2018 MLA Conference
The meeting will be held Friday, January 5, from 1:45 to 3 pm in Madison 4 at the Sheraton New York Times Square.
The open meeting will begin shortly after Session 298 is completed. The assigned room for the business meeting is snug, but…[Read more]
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Jan Christopher Susina posted an update in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChildren’s and Young Adult Literature Sessions at the 2018 MLA Conference
18: Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature
Thursday, January 04, 2018, 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM. Hilton: Clinton
PresiderPhilip Nel, Kansas State U
PresentationsAgents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denma…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoVery short essay on the way Deleuze uses images in his book on Bacon. In the original French edition, the images are in a separate volume; he does that in order to mime, or enact, the theory of sensation in his text. It seems to me this is an unusual and promising strategy for art history (disposing images so their sequence and arrangement…[Read more]
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