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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Review of The Taming of the Shrew.” Shakespeare Bulletin 35.4 (2017): 700-703 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoCan we entertain the idea that The Taming of the Shrew can be performed and received as comedy in the post-Women’s March US? If so, would the laughter be empathetic and solidary rather than callous? The answer lies in physical theater which is uniquely poised to activate elements of farce in the play. Shrew is one of the Shakespearean comedies t…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited “Не взлетевшие самолеты мечты”: о поколении формального метода in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoСтатья является введением к трехтомной антологии русского модернизма.
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Charles Gleek deposited Deck Lee and the Location of The Professor in Post Soul Literary Plots in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe professor character is no stranger to readers of contemporary African American literature. Indeed, the variety and ubiquity of a professorial character across a range of post soul fictional novels is not simply a curiosity to comment on, but phenomena available for critical interrogation. This analysis explores the location of Deck Lee’s c…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Adventures in Zoochosis in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPostcolonial theory has a people problem. By this, I am unabashedly suggesting that postcolonial theoreticians’ overemphasis on people as the site of analysis lies at the heart of the limitations of the field’s key terms, epistemological boundaries, and approach to understanding phenomena as a whole. Indeed, if postcolonial theory and its rel…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 1: Theory Palette Revision in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoA clean copy of the Theory Palette http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6581T, this (almost) blank canvas is open to artistic and textual interventions, variations, and compositions with the intersecting concerns of author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception as blendable paint colors.
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEvoking the creative messiness of an artist’s palette, this Theory Palette depicts nine theoretical concerns as intersecting, blendable paint colors: author, history, culture, psyche, text, reader, literature, language, and embodiment/perception. Just as painters in the same school, theorists blend colors to create their own compositions, s…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoGiorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[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
TM Literary and Cultural Theory 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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Caren Irr deposited Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPresents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.
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Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Judy Bertonazzi deposited Migratory Dialectics and Border Semiosis in Ana Castillo’s Chicana Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMy paper argues for a shift in our theoretical focus on time in narrative dialectics and a post-Barthesian semiotic model for critical interpretations of Latino/a/x border narratives. Currently, we know that border narratives reveal the underlying patterns of literary communicative acts of difference (i.e., oral and literary ambiguity, high…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s “Beneath the Roses” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – University of Miami – MLL Graduate Student Conference 2018 in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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