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Magdalena Ostas deposited Thinking with Austen: Literature, Philosophy, and Anne Elliot’s Inner World in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay discusses pedagogical approaches to teaching Austen’s Persuasion as a novel situated at the intersection of literature and philosophy. It focuses on how Persuasion takes up, talks back to, and helps illuminate classic philosophical questions about personhood, sociality, ethics, consciousness, and the space of inner life. It discusses c…[Read more]
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Eric Prieto started the topic Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Ren in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal </p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of California, Santa Barbara on 17–19 February 2022. </p>
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Tekla Babyak started the topic Disability accommodations for authors in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI’m an MLA member who works on intersections between 19th-century literature, philosophy, and music. I’m reaching out to this group with a question: do you know of any academic presses that are willing to make accommodations for disabled authors?
My situation is that I’m a disabled independent scholar (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014) who has…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Paterian Cosmopolitanism: Euphuism, Negativity, and Genre in Marius the Epicurean in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue that Walter Pater’s description of “Euphuism” in Marius the Epicurean (1885) relies upon the insights of idealist philosophy in order to articulate a theory of what Rebecca Walkowitz calls “cosmopolitan style.” Specifically, Pater draws upon a disparate number of cultural discourses in his articulation of Euphuism while…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson’s Lyrics in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited The Aesthetics of Absorption in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoMichael Fried has returned to the distinction between “absorption” and “theatricality” in all of his art-historical criticism since he first introduced the dyad in 1980. This essay argues that the term “absorption” is rich with a philosophical significance that echoes central concerns long at play in philosophy’s thinking about the status of art…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talk: Shakespeare and East Asia, Tuesday May 25, 2021 at 5 pm CDT / 6 pm EDT in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoRegister at https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jyEzkIZYQZ6bKzjjr3faZg :::: The University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talks is proud to present a book launch of Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press). Chair: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago). Discussant: Michael Saenger (Southwestern…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Fwd: Announcement of the Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature and Justice (deadline: June 15, 2021) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear all,
Please see below for information about a new prize for scholarship on law and literature by graduate students, professional school students, and recent graduates.
Best wishes,
Melissa GanzBegin forwarded message:
From: “Heinzelman, Susan S” <sheinz@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:sheinz@austin.utexas.edu>>
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global mediation: Performing Shakespeare in the age of networked and digital cultures,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, ed. Peter Kirwan and Kathryn Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 132-150 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoPerforming Shakespeare in modern times is an act of mediation between characters and actors, creating channels between geocultural spaces and time periods. The multiplicity of the plural term global Shakespeares helps us push back against deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s ubiquitous presence. Adaptations accrue nuanced meanings as t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Daniel Roger Schwarz replied to the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks Liz; Great topic—best, dan
Dan Schwarz
Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Literatures in English
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
242 Goldwin Smith
Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853
607-273-5735 (Home); 607-255-9313 (Office); 607-255-6661 (Fax)
drs6@cornell.edu<mailto:drs6@cornell.edu>
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Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.
This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWestern observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]
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