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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic "Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next?" Post-panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPerhaps someone is interested (hopefully many are) in continuing the conversation on the directions of our field? There is so much to say. I share Paul’s concern about the shrinking of premodern, which is why I was stressing the importance of history and studying the past as past. But that’s just one angle. Anyway, just creating a space to…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021: Forum Panels in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease consider attending one or both of the panels sponsored by our forum at MLA 2021 in the next few days:
“Revisiting William Morris and the Arts and Crafts: Reception and Influence,” our co-sponsored panel, is scheduled for Thursday, January 7th from 5:15pm – 6:30pm (EDT).
“From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of Collections” is…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Texts & Technology in History Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the syllabus for the Spring 2021 section of Texts & Technology in History, which will be taught synchronously via Zoom at UCF as part of the PhD in T&T. This iteration of the course particularly considers whose texts are archived, who shapes our technologies, and which histories are preserved and retold.
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theory & Practice of Interactive Storytelling: Online Course Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe syllabus for the Spring 2021 asynchronous online course “Theory & Practice of Interactive Storytelling,” which includes both critical and creative projects, and uses Twine, Inform 7, and Ren’Py.
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David A. Wacks deposited Canonicity and Medieval Hispanic Studies in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSince the 1980s, there has been much discussion of the question of the literary canon. Our colleages in English have been particularly outspoken on the question (Charles Altieri 1990; Jan Gorak 1991 and 2000; John Guillory 1993; Gregory Jay 1997) and in recent years, Hispanists such as José María Pozuelo Yvancos and María Rosa Adrada Sánchez (20…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Canonicity and Medieval Hispanic Studies in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSince the 1980s, there has been much discussion of the question of the literary canon. Our colleages in English have been particularly outspoken on the question (Charles Altieri 1990; Jan Gorak 1991 and 2000; John Guillory 1993; Gregory Jay 1997) and in recent years, Hispanists such as José María Pozuelo Yvancos and María Rosa Adrada Sánchez (20…[Read more]
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Ryan Hintzman started the topic MLA 2021: Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next? (9 Jan, 10:15am; Session 382) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSaturday, 9 January 10:15AM-11:30AM EST (Session #382)
Scholars at various career stages from the United States, Europe, and Japan think together with the audience about strategies for ensuring the vitality of pre-1900 Japanese literary studies given the field’s distinctive history and configuration and the challenges of teaching and conducting r…[Read more]
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic André Tournon, “Rire pour comprendre…” now available from Classiques Garnier in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)
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Robert J. Hudson started the topic André Tournon, "Rire pour comprendre…" now available from Classiques Garnier in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPlease see the attached prospectus from Garnier Frères (forwarded to our Forum by Ned Duval)
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aecklund started the topic Engaging Literature Students in the Virtual Classroom with the MLA Bibliography in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLast Wednesday’s webinar on using the MLA International Bibliography in the virtual classroom, hosted by Library Journal, is now available as a recording. Register here to view the recording at any time: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2828627/53D250B9352103D18AA7D5DA574AABBD?partnerref=LJSPNSREBSCO121620
The webinar focuses on using the MLA…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited «Astrología y genealogía de poder en La vida es sueño de Calderón de la Barca y la comedia anónima El vaticinio cumplido: la estrella de Inglaterra.» in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: To what extent the relationship between astrology and the genealogy of authority and power present in Calderon’s comedias can help us study other Spanish Golden Age plays with similar themes? To what extent can the presence of these genealogical discourses shed light on the use of comedy as propaganda? In this essay, presented…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Ellen Welch started the topic Early Modern French Sessions at the MLA virtual convention in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoWith the MLA 2021 Convention just about a month away, please note the nine exciting sessions related to early modern French studies (listed below — all times EST). Convention information and registration are available here:
38 – Telling Trauma and Disability – Thursday, 7 January 2021, 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM-…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Cultures of the Book (ENGL 034, taught remotely Fall 2020) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe book: it’s a soothingly familiar technology, one we all know how to operate. Open the front covers to reveal the text; turn the page to continue reading. Yet even the most seemingly ordinary aspects of the book, like titles and page numbers, had to be invented. In this course, we will work to defamiliarize the book, investigating how the f…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.
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