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Nancy Schrock replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoAn April issue of New Scientist had an article on Shakespeare and his understanding of astronomy. It mentioned many of the points you make. Just an FYI.
http://www.newscientist.com/special/shakespeare
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Lila Marz Harper replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoYes, as I understand it, tension needs to build up to the climax, which may be a confrontation. This will provide the framework for a discussion of evidence. It sounds as if you need a good opener to set the theme–maybe a staged modern argument between scholars?
You might want to study the script of a BBC documentary, maybe on Darwin, for…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks, Lila. I will keep that in mind. I am stepping back from the F2F meeting of Galileo and Will Shakespeare to focus on why Shakespeareans get apoplexy over the attempts of astronomers who attempt to read Hamlet (Peter Usher), for example as containing clues to Shakespeare’s knowledge of “the new philosophy” of Copernicus’ heliocentric solar…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoFor a film, you need a narrative arc. This can be a challenge when dramatizing science history and that is something to keep in mind.
I work in 18th and 19th century women’s natural history travel narratives. Some of these accounts may be potentially filmable and I was recently approached by one producer recently for a Biopic. But I would have to…[Read more]
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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Gloria,
Yes, that does make more sense. The period is earlier than mine–I work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a focus on Romantic poets and “scientists.” Certainly, the moment has come for consilience. I think a film that shows how the past couple hundred years are relatively unique in our aggressive separation of the…[Read more]
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Nancy Schrock replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoA project that crosses the arts and the sciences sounds like an interesting one if there is a focus relevant to current issues. I have to bridge the two daily. I have a Ph.D. in chemistry and an M.A. in creative writing and teach both chemistry and writing classes. I find the cultural differences between workers in the sciences and humanities…[Read more]
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Jenna Mead replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello Gloria and Lisa,
This sounds fascinating. I’m an out-of-towner on this one but the connections are intriguing, especially given their speculative nature. I work on Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe and so have a (deeply) vested interest in crossing the borders between Arts and Sciences. I’ll be watching this space with a lot of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Lisa,
We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]
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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Gloria,
Just out of curiosity, why Galileo and Shakespeare? There are so many examples of poets and men of science who really did cross the line between arts and sciences. Why not some of them?
Cheers,
Lisa Ann
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Rivka Swenson started the topic Deadline: Midnight: Request to Vote in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDelegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).
The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification
You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]
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Rivka Swenson started the topic Deadline: Midnight: Request to Vote in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDelegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).
The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification
You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoGreat new edition of The Bottle Imp with papers from the MLA 2013 and 2014 Discussion Group sessions. Introduced by Matt Wickman. Thanks to Gwen Enstam, Duncan Jones, Matt, Caroline McCracken-Flesher and everyone else involved. http://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/SWE/TBI/TBISupp/TBISupp1/WickmanIntro.html
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Aging and the Posthuman in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoIn a scholarly context that is increasingly turning to the posthuman, the transhuman, and the virtual, explorations of the embodied experience of age and its cultural resonances offer crucial insights into the uniquely human awareness of the experience of living through time. For a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the MLA’s Age Studies Discussion G…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Disc. Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis CFP might be of interest for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver started the topic MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCalls for papers have been published for the Scottish Literature Discussion Group’s sessions at the 130th MLA Convention in Vancouver, 8th -11th January 2015. There are two sessions, as follows. Both are listed in the MLA’s calls for papers. We welcome abstracts, or please contact us with any enquiries.
1. Discussion Group in Scottish…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver started the topic Opening the Commons forum on Scottish Literature. . . in the forum
Scottish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe forum provides a place where we can discuss what’s happening in Scottish literature. Do you have anything to share? Here’s your chance . . .
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
The English Romantic Period on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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