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John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOn Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on Visual Culture:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Al…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on 20th and 21st-century American literature:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3307: Twentieth Century Literature in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3307 equips students for critical encounters with the texts and literary materials that constitute the social, political and scientific context of the twentieth century in North America and Europe. Organized around the theme of the fantastic in speculative fiction, the course delves into enduring tensions in Western cultural traditions,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3386: Studies in American Literature “Versioning Digital Humanities” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoEnglish 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited ENGL 3384: Postcolonial Literature in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSelected works from the literatures of former European colonies: African, Indian, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, Latin American, etc. Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHemingway’s In Our Time has been long recognized as a major development in American literature and Modernism, but limited access to its various publication states has meant that the 1930 edition superseded all others. This edition makes the 1923 version of “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?” available for the first time since…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSince its first publication, critics have recognized Hemingway’s 1924 in our time as a major development in American literature and Modernism. This edition makes the 1924 version of in our time available for the first time since the 1977 facsimile edition, which was in a print run limited to 1700 copies. The original edition was printed in only 1…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Gnosticism in Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur: New Textual Evidence for Source Materials in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoPrevious scholarship on source materials for Lawrence Durrell’s Gnostic themes in Monsieur are insufficient in light of his marginalia in Serge Hutin’s Les Gnostiques and his notebooks for the novel. We contend that archival evidence from the Bibliothèque Lawrence Durrell in Nanterre, France, necessitates a reevaluation of previous work in orde…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: The Critic as Amateur in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoSaikat Majumdar and I are inviting essays for a proposed collection tentatively titled The Critic as Amateur, with strong interest from Oxford UP. The collection will focus on literary criticism as an activity suspended (productively) between expertise and amateurism. It will explore the idea of the critic of literature as an amateur rather t…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies, May 6-7, 2016
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of whom were South…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Revisiting E. E. Cummings' Paintings at Brockport in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe article focuses on the restoration of the collections of paintings and drawings of E. E. Cummings in Brockport, New York. It is inferred that the Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection has sustained a mass of damage over the last 25 years, and that efforts for its conservation have consistently been delayed. It discusses the contents and the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Revisiting E. E. Cummings' Paintings at Brockport in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe article focuses on the restoration of the collections of paintings and drawings of E. E. Cummings in Brockport, New York. It is inferred that the Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection has sustained a mass of damage over the last 25 years, and that efforts for its conservation have consistently been delayed. It discusses the contents and the…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited "Barbaric Space: Portrayal of Arab lands in Hollywood films" in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoOn many occasions cinema has chosen to shoot movies in locales other than the ones in which the events of the films are supposed to take place in. This could be due to various reasons, namely cheaper production costs, or inability to gain access to the original place. The choice of location, however, tries to provide a mirror image of the…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story." in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoIn his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited The abject/the terrorist/the reel Arab – a point of intersection in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoMedia representations of Arabs and terrorists.
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