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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.
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Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Ellen Scheible started the topic How can the Irish forum help you? in the discussion
LLC Irish on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear members,
As a member of the MLA Irish LLC, I am writing to begin a discussion about the way that the Irish forum could be most useful for your work and engagement. What kinds of posts, links, or connections would you like to see here? How can we best use this forum to connect with each other and encourage community building and…[Read more]
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Rachel Floyd started the topic Dissertation Research on Professional Development in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello! My name is Rachel Floyd and I’m currently working on my dissertation research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. I’m researching the current professional learning needs of recent alumni from graduate foreign language programs, including those no longer in academia. Would you be interested in sup…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years agoComo homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.
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Steve McCarty deposited How to Be a Professional Foreigner in Japan in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years agoA previous Deep in Japan podcast explored how ancient Japanese viewed their environment and sacred sites, culminating in the author’s discovery of a mountain range that was formerly viewed as a mandala that practitioners could traverse. This 2022 podcast is more autobiographical, describing encounters with Reischauer, Keene, Alan Watts, and…[Read more]
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Exec Committee Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me. Thank you, Sophia
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has a new process for selecting new members to forum executive committees. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you’d like to make a nomination (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia
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Sophia A. McClennen started the topic New Forum Member? in the discussion
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 4 years agoMLA has adopted a new process for populating the forum roster. Now forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. If you would like to to recommend a member to serve (or self-nominate) please email me at sam50@psu.edu. Thank you, Sophia
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Pruritus Migrans deposited DARE in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years agoDARE * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND
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Annika Tjuka deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. Volume 4 in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years agoThe weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging, offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting Grant “Computer-Assisted Language C…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller deposited Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]
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