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Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’ Quartet in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAbstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]
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Juliet Shields posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Ways of Reading Scotland
I’m seeking papers for a guaranteed panel at the 2018 MLA on the topic “Ways of Reading Scotland.”
How have new technologies and modes of reading (digital, distant, surface, affective, ethical, ecocritical…) changed our understanding of Scottish literature—whether of an individual text, a corpus of works, a particula…[Read more] -
Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Very Well for Our Age: Hyperobject Metadata and Global Warming in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn recent years, the practices of symptomatic reading have been called into question by scholars such as Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, Rita Felski and Bruno Latour. It is claimed that such reading has become either formulaic or politically inefficacious. This article argues, against such thinking, that Emily…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction
Title of session: Religions + Secularisms in the Novel
Submission requirements: 200-wd abstract & brief bio to jhg@ucla.edu
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018
Description: After the demise of the secular thesis, new ways of reading the novel in relation to secularism and religion?
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Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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George Phillips deposited CFP: Global Modernisms and the Graphic in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDouglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s field-defining article, “The New Modernist Studies,” turns ten in 2018. Despite the fact that the article takes up new media as a key topic-and although it was published just after ground-breaking work in the “visual turn” of literary studies by Mary Lou Emery (Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature,…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] -
Shawna Ross deposited Transatlantic Modernist Poetry (Graduate Syllabus) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis course, taught at Texas A&M University in Spring 2018, reads the entirety of the Norton anthology and enfolds readings of the Modernist Journals Project and scholarship by Morrisson, Esty, McKible and Churchill, Patterson, Ramazani, Jay, Berman, Chlak, Friedman, and Kalliney.
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Shawna Ross deposited Transatlantic Modernist Poetry (Graduate Syllabus) in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis course, taught at Texas A&M University in Spring 2018, reads the entirety of the Norton anthology and enfolds readings of the Modernist Journals Project and scholarship by Morrisson, Esty, McKible and Churchill, Patterson, Ramazani, Jay, Berman, Chlak, Friedman, and Kalliney.
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Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhy We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years agoPreview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.
Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAbstract:
This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more] -
Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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