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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 27, 2017 in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months ago<h3>Call for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 27, 2017</h3>
Themes: Authority and Agency in Divisive TimesFeatured Luncheon Speaker : Matthew Gavin Frank
Location: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Individuals often contest the issues of authority and agency in our classrooms, wor…[Read more]
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Peter Schmidt deposited “’Truth so mazed’: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction” in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoTreats the meaning of the phrase quoted in the title for Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and, especially, “The Bear.” Published in Cambridge UP’s anthology of new essays, Faulkner in Context, edited John Matthews, 2015.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited The Fabric of Society: Textiles as an Indicator of Social Class in Domestic Novels in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines textiles as an indicator of social class in the sentimental novels of the American long 1850s. Publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830) and Lady’s World of Fashion (1842) are credited with creating the ties between social status and textile quality. Yet, domestic novels of the long 1850s such as The Discarded Daugh…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic CFP: Methods of Health Humanities in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoCFP: Methods of Health Humanities
Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017
The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic still time — international Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium May 5-6 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI am posting the following on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo:
Dear Colleagues,
We hope you’ll consider joining us at Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 5-6 for the international Hippocrates Symposium on Poetry and Medicine. This gathering of health humanities scholars and poets from around the globe is being convened this ye…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Announcement: Hawthorne Society — "Hawthorne and Things" MLA 2018 abstracts in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoNathaniel Hawthorne Society – “Hawthorne and Things” MLA 2018 panel description and abstracts
Things abound in Hawthorne. We hope this panel can provoke a lively discussion of what happens to our understanding of them when we move beyond conventional interpretations of symbolic meaning to focus instead on things themselves as potential makers of…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Poe/Hawthorne Joint International Conference – Kyoto, Japan June 21-24, 2018 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from <span data-term=”goog_239816782″>June 21-24, 2018</span>. Our plenary speaker will be Takayuki Tatsumi and our keynote speaker will be…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Alvan Ikoku posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“Health, Humanities, and Insecurity”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Forum PanelHow does work at the meeting of health and humanities address contemporary questions about
precarity and insecurity? Panel will draw from a range of literatures, theories, and methods to explore these questions.Send 300-word abstract and CV to Alvan Ikoku, ikoku…[Read more]
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suzanne lalonde posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago“Trauma and Literature”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Special SessionHow precisely might literature prove therapeutic to those who have endured traumatic experiences and how might it fail to heal? Drawing on pieces of literature as well as theories from illness narratives, narrative medicine, and trauma theories, among others, this panel seeks resea…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark started the topic Update – Emerson society awards announcement in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoA reminder of the April 1st deadline for the Ralph Waldo Emerson society’s three awards. Information is pasted below. Thanks for your assistance in circulating this announcement.
<p class=”xmsonormal” align=”center”>The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.</p>
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James’s In the Cage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic major poetry and medicine events and awards at Harvard Medical School in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoPosted on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo, rcampo@bidmc.harvard.edu:
Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium at Harvard Medical School on 6th May 2017
Proposals for abstracts and oral presentation are now being accepted for 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, to be convened at Harva…[Read more]
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