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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Travelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”. Noor's transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoTravelling away from the “artsy post-modern lefty-pinko university”.
Noor’s transcultural experience and the duties of the intellectual.The volume Qur’an and cricket consists of several travelogues produced by a Malay intellectual, Farish A. Noor, during his trips to the most problematic places of the world, marked by the contemporary “ba…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Nós, Portugal, o poder ser. Um universalismo virtual como resultado dum processo de auto-mitificação da cultura in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoWe, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.
The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]
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Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German
Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic W.J.T. Mitchell's "Palestine at the 2016 MLA" in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoW.J.T. Mitchell writes on the Critical Inquiry blog of the 2016 convention’s discussion of the boycott resolution and the question of Palestine: “It seemed clear to me that the discussion has now moved beyond a simple “for or against” rhetoric into a more nuanced debate over the internal struggles of BDS to refine its tactics and reach out to form…[Read more]
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoMy talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Holocaust literature and historiography in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper examines Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces (2007) in the context of Holocaust literature and historiography. It begins with an introduction to the genre of Holocaust literature and the problematic nature of ‘survivor’ testimony. Michaels’ work is then contextualized within this body of literature. The essay goes on to examine the means t…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Holocaust literature and historiography in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis paper examines Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces (2007) in the context of Holocaust literature and historiography. It begins with an introduction to the genre of Holocaust literature and the problematic nature of ‘survivor’ testimony. Michaels’ work is then contextualized within this body of literature. The essay goes on to examine the means t…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Petiton against French government censorship if BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis account of the French government’s criminalization of BDS, by French scholars publicly opposing it, comes with an appeal to academics internationally to protest this startling restriction of freedom of speech in the land that claims to have invented rights of free speech. Once again, the Israeli exception seems to hold sway with the usual…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello Elana!
Your book is on my reading list. How strange that authors of books intended for reading materialize as people… I’ve been thinking of Wells; it’s not quite ostranenie, methinks, but perhaps DIY ostranenie, available for possible reader construction.
Thank you!
…и вообще много общего у нас: только мой третий язык не иврит, а…[Read more]
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Elana Gomel replied to the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Alexandra, I am not sure whether it fits your definition of ostraneniye but the last scene in H. G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” has the violated body literally develop into visibility as the victim is dying. I wrote a book on violence (Bloodscripts, 2003) and though I did not deal with Shklovsky’s theory at any length, I was very intrigued by…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Sue Rowe Doe deposited Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty Members: Strategies for Establishing Due Process in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis presentation explored the implications of constraints on due process and academic freedom in light of contingent faculty hiring.
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