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Gabrielle Miller started the topic Call for Papers: Anales Galdosianos Monographic Issue in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoI am pleased to share the call for papers for Anales Galdosianos’s monographic issue, “Contagion and Illness in the Time of Galdós” / “Contagios y enfermedades en los tiempos de Galdós“.
Proposal Submission Deadline (250 words): November 30, 2020
Article Submission Deadline (maximum 10,000 words): April 16, 2021
Expected Publication Date: Novem…[Read more]
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Espacios de la memoria. Marcel Proust y Juan Benet in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.
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Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Kafka en España: unas notas sobre Carmen Martín Gaite y Enrique Vila-Matas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoFranz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.
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Jacob Heil started the topic Candidate Statement for 2020 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHi, friends. Our elections for EC opened last week and I am one of the candidates you’ll see on the ballot for this Group. Therefore, I thought that I might share a little about my interests, my role(s) at the College of Wooster, and my goals for service on the Executive Committee for the Libraries and Research Group.
I have come to libraries by…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoWith the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Iconotropism as Representational Hunger: Raphael and Titian in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIconotropism is a gargantuan overgeneralization hypothesizing that people are hungry for pictures and feed on them, metabolize them, turn them into nourishment. The study examples are Raphael’s Transfiguration and Titian’s Diana and Actaeon. It is a contribution to embodiment theory and cognitive cultural history.
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Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.
The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues:
I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.
Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)
Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Labor day and Swiftian sature Sep. 7, 2020 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoQUOTED from “Rust Belt Literature” Project at ResearchGate. My script for All the Old Familiar Places can be had by writing to:
gmcmilla@email.arizona.eduDear Colleagues,
I studied Jonathan Swift and the Augustan writer (Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson) at Indiana Univ. NW Campus Gary, Indiana. My Swiftian satire, All the…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoReview of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
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Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy started the topic Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Digital Humanities in the Library in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI hope it’s ok for me to post this cfp here! I thought there might be people in this group who would be interested.
Call for Book Chapter Proposals
Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists — Revised Second Edition
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020
Editors: Arianne Hartsell-Gundy…[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP due Oct 31st for ACLA online April 8-11, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoColegas, I would like to invite you to submit to an ACLA seminar that I’m proposing. The conference will be held virtually between April 8-11. I include the CFP below. I hope that you will consider submitting! Salud y saludos, Erin
Spanish Society Must Be Defended?: Revisiting Foucault, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty Today This proposed seminar rev…[Read more]
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Carmen Moreno-Diaz started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference that this year will take place online.
We look forward to your participation!
Saludos a todxs, y buen comienzo de semestre!
Carmen.
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIn his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Social Media Research in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSocial media is a key contemporary site of activity for politics, entertainment, and relationships, but how can we study it? This course combines theory and practice; students will both read canonical and contemporary social media research from leading scholars and learn to engage with social media platforms to collect and analyze their own data.…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Liberating Bicycles in Niki Caro’s ‘Whale Rider’ and in Haifaa Al Mansour’s ‘Wadjda’ in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSusan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]
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