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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute (June 18 – 24) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 18, 2018 – SUNDAY JUNE 24, 2018.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University),…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. On the one hand, the Cold War national fantasy of mutually assured destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions. On the other, there has been an increasing sobriety about human finitude, especially considered…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis rhetorical analysis of the phrase “The Rust Belt” asks the question Is The Rust Belt real or mythical? Does Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ caste now inhabit the (so-called) Rust Belt? Why can’t Rust Belt writers be heard?
“The Rust Belt” is not a title anyone living there would have chosen and yet we use it. Why? Also why should we depend…[Read more] -
Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAn analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]
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James S. Finley deposited “Justice in the Land”: Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau’s Antislavery Essays in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis essay surveys Thoreau’s antislavery writings from across his career and demonstrates the ecological concerns central to Thoreau’s abolitionist commitment.
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis New Rheto rical Continuum Chart for Fiction shows a spectral range between individual (New Critical, structuralist, formalist) approach to group-based (socio-rhetorical) approach to fiction in the 21st Century.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis New Rheto rical Continuum Chart for Fiction shows a spectral range between individual (New Critical, structuralist, formalist) approach to group-based (socio-rhetorical) approach to fiction in the 21st Century.
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Radovan Škultéty replied to the topic CFP (MLA 2019 Chicago): Reinterpreting Nonsense in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>2019 MLA Special Session: Reinterpreting Nonsense</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Collection of Abstracts</p>
1. Gautam Basu Thakur“Nonhumans and Surplus Enjoyment in Sukumar Ray’s Nonsense Writings”
In his book of nonsense verses (abol-tabol [gibberish]), a nonsense novella (Hwa-Jwa-
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A. Lewis deposited The Ancestral Lands of Black Panther and Killmonger Unburied in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The Stars our Destination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe Stars our Destination is a story of overcoming anxieties and biases from war, as well as other growing up issues in a steel mill town. Over time, the three main characters gradually converge. Two women have nightmares involving the past and the old Prof. Daniel Blei lives off and on in a flood of troubling recollections. The conclusion will…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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