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Krzysztof Fordonski deposited William Butler Yeats and the Irish Coinage in the group
Sociology of translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article presents the involvement of the poet William Butler Yeats in the creation of national coinage of the Irish Free State in the late 1920s.
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Krzysztof Fordonski deposited I traduttori vittoriani dell’opera poetica di Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski in the group
Sociology of translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe paper discusses English translators of the poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski of the early Victorian period. The paper traces Sarbiewski’s transitions within English literary canon and aims at reconstructing the change in attitudes towards the translation process, quality, and assessment.
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Krzysztof Fordonski deposited I traduttori vittoriani dell’opera poetica di Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe paper discusses English translators of the poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski of the early Victorian period. The paper traces Sarbiewski’s transitions within English literary canon and aims at reconstructing the change in attitudes towards the translation process, quality, and assessment.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThanks, Sophia! Will check it out tonight. As an aside, I just binge-read Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland’s The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., which, because it featured (a) time travel, (b) excessive bureaucracy, and (c) the military-industrial complex, was a thoroughly enjoyable read!
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Sophia Booth Magnone replied to the topic Jeff VanderMeer's Borne in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPicking this thread up months later… I wrote a little piece on the Southern Reach Trilogy for the website Somatosphere. I’d love to hear thoughts on it if anyone is interested!
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Tobias Steiner deposited “FlashForward”: an experiment in Collective Memory Studies in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago“The thesis investigates the case of the modern Television drama series FlashForward and sets out to chart the employment of concepts of Collective Memory Studies in the narrative in order to reflect upon the ways of how social perceptions of the past and Collective Memory are remediated in the course of the narrative.
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Nicola Griffith deposited Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis critical commentary argues that the novels submitted (emphasis on Ammonite, The Blue Place, and Hild, with three others, Slow River, Stay, and Always briefly referenced), form a coherent body of work which centres and norms the experience of the Other, particularly queer women. Close reading of the novels demonstrates how specific word-choice…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
Sociology of translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoTranslation (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/deposits/?facets%5Bsubject_facet%5D%5B%5D=Translation) is the new featured collection on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/). Add to the collection by adding “Translation” as a subject to your CORE deposits.
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James Elkins deposited The Prehistory of Constrained Writing: Thoughts on Michel Butor’s “Degrees, A Novel” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited On the Aesthetic Pleasure and Fictive Nature of Footnotes: Nabokov’s 1,200 Pages of Commentary on Eugene Onegin in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited On Late Romanticism in Fiction: Peter Handke’s “Slow Homecoming” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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James Elkins deposited Images in Umberto Exo’s “Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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Olalekan Adigun posted an update in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoI posted a piece on my Facebook wall about two emails I sent to two Research Institutes, one in Abuja (Nigeria) and the other in New York (USA). Despite the fact that Lagos (where I live) to Abuja is just about 300 km by road, I haven’t got a response, let alone have any assurance that my mail is being attended to. But, I have since gotten a r…[Read more]
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James Elkins deposited Images in Sebald’s “Rings of Saturn” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited The first illustrated novel: Georges Rodenbach’s “Bruges-la-morte” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited Yves Bonnefoy, The arriere-pays in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.
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James Elkins deposited What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.
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Todd Comer deposited “’Space is the Place”: The Politics of Birth in Minority Report” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoSteven Spielberg’s 2002 Minority Report narrates two interrelated stories. The micro
story concerns a family, a kidnapped son, the ensuing trauma, and the work of mourning that
follows. The macro story concerns criminal justice, social stability, and hermeneutics at the level
of the nation state. The problem for both stories is ontological a…[Read more] -
Todd Comer deposited “Dilating Fixity: Pacific Rim, and the Erasure of Birth” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis paper discusses Pacific Rim as a film deeply concerned with birth, in particular the horror of birth, and the process by which birth is assimilated. The film may then be seen as part of an unbroken commentary on nuclear
weapons insofar as it is our technological, capitalistic, and nuclear capability that allows
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Robert Wauhkonen deposited Friend, Frontman, Foe: Snowman’s Lament in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis paper examines Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake in relation to environmental justice. The best-selling first novel in Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy, Oryx and Crake was widely hailed for its nightmarish depiction of a post-apocalyptic, bioengineered future. The major themes of the novel mirror key themes of the environmental justice movement tod…[Read more]
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