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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP – NeMLA 2019 – Transnational Beat Generation in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoCall For Papers: The Transnational Beat Generation
Moderator: Amy L. Friedman, Temple University
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” asked Jack Kerouac. Apparently across many borders, because that hip, counterculture Beat Generation impact has lasted. This panel invites papers which explore how Beat Gen…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, January 4, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago, on Friday, January 5, 2019 from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Session 374, Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape, will feature a discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer agenda with discussion…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Issue of "Decimonónica" in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
I am happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of Decimonónica, a Journal of Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Culture, which includes the following essays:
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<div class=”module-master-title”>Women’s Dreams in Galdos’s Later Episodios Nacionales
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Alexa Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook 17: Shakespeare and Value, Edited by Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Simon Haines (New York: Routledge, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHow do Shakespearean plays sustain clashing values within them, or imposed on them? Is Shakespeare anti-Semitic? Can Shakespeare be a feminist? How is value subject to context, to market, and demand? A wide range of moral, political, and aesthetic values—profitable or heartening or threatening from case to case—have been associated with Sha…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe started the topic CFP American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies March 21-23, 2019 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe following sessions have been proposed by members of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IASECS)
Call for Papers
50th ASECS Annual Meeting
Denver, CO
March 21-23, 2019
Session Program Guidelines
Proposals for papers should be sent directly to the session organizers no later than 15 September 2018.
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Zachary Ludington started the topic CFP: "Hispanic Poetry and World War I" (NeMLA 2019) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m chairing a panel on Hispanic Poetry and World War I at NeMLA 2019 in Washington, DC. The dates are March 21-24. Please take a look at the CFP here [https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html] and pass the information along to any colleagues who might be interested. If my panel isn’t up your alley, consider submitting to…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare Theatre Company’ s Macbeth and the Limits of Multiculturalism.” Early Modern Culture 13 (2018): 240-246 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe STC Macbeth’s setting and predominantly multiethnic cast brought to mind Orson Welles’s landmark 1936 Macbeth which was set in Haiti and featured an all-black cast. In both cases, the ethnicity and race of the cast matched that of the characters and cultures in the adaptation’s respective universe. Tommy’s production engaged in two models…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited To Want and Want Not: Manifestations of Desire in “Barbie-Q” by Sandra Cisneros and الأريكة (“The Couch”) by فاطمة حمد المزروعي (Fatima Hamad Al Mazrouei) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago“Barbie-Q” (1991) by Chicana Sandra Cisneros and “The Couch” (2010) by Emirati Fatima H. Al Mazrouei lend themselves to a comparative study for several reasons. Both short stories present female narrators who desire the object identified in the title of each story. In each story, this item carries significant symbolic value. Both poetic prose t…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Or Not to Mother? Astrid Roemer’s Lijken op liefde (looks like love) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago‘Lijken op liefde’ (“Looks Like Love”; 1997) is the second novel in Astrid Roemer’s “Suriname Trilogy.” Alternating narrative perspectives and time, the three texts revolve around the country’s independence from Holland (in 1975) and the impact this historical process has had on the population. With an emphasis on the potential of creolizatio…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited A Vindication of Vernacular: Bennett, Goodison, Hippolyte, and Walcott in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay identifies four major factors responsible for the use of vernacular in Anglophone Caribbean poetry. Analyses of selected texts by Lorna Goodison, Louise Bennett, Kendel Hippolyte, and DerekWalcott illustrate that these four factors include the representation of working class characters, subversive protests against the imposition of…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited A Vindication of Vernacular: Bennett, Goodison, Hippolyte, and Walcott in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis essay identifies four major factors responsible for the use of vernacular in Anglophone Caribbean poetry. Analyses of selected texts by Lorna Goodison, Louise Bennett, Kendel Hippolyte, and DerekWalcott illustrate that these four factors include the representation of working class characters, subversive protests against the imposition of…[Read more]
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