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Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 2: Theory Palette Revision in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft: Theory Palette in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA 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
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society 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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Elena Garcia-Martin deposited “Gender, Race and Interculturalism in TNT-El Vacie’s Romani Fuenteovejuna.” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis paper addresses the performance of Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna undertaken by TNT-El Vacie (Territorio de Nuevos Tiempos), a theater company from Seville, Spain. I Consider how Antonio Álamo’s adaptation, Pepa Gamboa’s direction, and the staging of El Vacie, a company comprised exclusively of non-professional Roma women, constitutes a site o…[Read more]
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Emily A. Hegarty started the topic CFP: Ecocomposition at the Community College in the discussion
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoContributions are invited to a proposed volume of essays on teaching ecocomposition at the community college level. <span data-ccp-props=”{}”> </span>
The focus of this volume is the powerful connection between the pedagogical aims of ecocomposition and the pedagogical philosophy of community colleges. Today, all higher education faces a greater…[Read more]
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José Angel García Landa deposited A Comparison between the French and RP English Vowel Systems in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis is a paper in comparative phonology, which undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of the standard British English RP (Received Pronunciation) vowel system, and that of standard French, including some observations on regional varieties.
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José Angel García Landa deposited A Comparison between the French and RP English Vowel Systems in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis is a paper in comparative phonology, which undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of the standard British English RP (Received Pronunciation) vowel system, and that of standard French, including some observations on regional varieties.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeares in World Markets and Archives: An Introduction to the Special Issue in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoShakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of…[Read more]
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Michelle M. Hamilton deposited The Sephardic Past in the Digital Future in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis study imagines a Sephardic archive not as a physical site that houses the artifacts, texts, and history of a nation-state or Empire, but one that allows us to access those objects (or exposes their absence) and to bring artifacts from different official archives into dialogue in a different, virtual space, thus creating an additional, but not…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCall for articles. Spectral Mexico: https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-culture-and-society/forum/topic/call-for-articles-spectral-mexico-3/
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Language Change on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Language Change Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Language and Society Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Global English Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA General Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Applied Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFrom the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]
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Tanya K. Zhelezcheva started the topic Candidate Statement in the discussion
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am honored to be nominated for the LSL Global English Executive Committee. I am an Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College where I teach College Writing courses and Contemporary Literature. My vision for contributing to the Executive Committee and its endeavors is to seek to broaden the conversation on…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more] - Load More
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