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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Speculative Modernism in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn article relating modernism to financial speculation.
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIndeed, Victor—- though naturally most everyone is so caught up in their own affairs and probably only a handfull of people have even bothered with reading my comments (which by the way is expressed most wonderfully by Buergel in Nocturnal Deliberations…). The level of discourse tends to be either limited to small subsets of “specialists” or…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhen you quote Sofel’s acknowledgment of “the horror filled underbelly of all that is detestable regarding which hardly anybody is particularly eager to discuss,” it mirrors the detestable act of electing a man to the US Presidency who has engaged in thoroughly criminal, evil, and loathsome behaviors, including marking a “C” for colored folk to…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration
“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contemporary…[Read more] -
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoFrom Walter H. Sokel’s Kafka study, Tragik & Ironie:
“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the horror filled un…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" – MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPlease review the file KAFKA TRANSFORMED (uploaded by yours truly into this Group) & join in the deeper discussion of Kafka’s JOSEF K.! as a Symbol of the human tragedy of the 21st century. Perhaps there will be sufficient interest in the esoteric side of Kafka (himself deeply interested in mystical matters, e.g. his meeting with R.…[Read more]
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Marissa Nicosia started the topic 742. Returning to the History Play: Time, Affect, Memory in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI’m excited for MLA Philly for a lot of reasons: friends are coming to town, I’m giving a paper on prophecy from my book manuscript, and I’m convening a roundtable connected to my research that’s part of the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions. If you’re attending the conference, check out the proposal and full-length abstracts below a…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka's Ontology – Death vs. Life in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWell, not very much activity here in Philos. & Lit. – 1400+ members! – Perhaps TRUMP’s astounding Victory in the Electoral College will provide an impetus for more reflection on the state of the state >> Torture being quite acceptable to the Pres.-Elect….
I have uploaded my transl. of IN THE PENAL Colony to the Kafka group and anyone and…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Kafka's: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoenjoy…. More in the Kafka Group.
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Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Kafka's: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoenjoy…. More in the Kafka Group.
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Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Kafka’s: In the Penal Colony (Torture, Machine Ideology & the OLD Commander…. returns! Yikes….) from
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Digital American Cultural Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for a graduate level methods survey (introductory) course for the digital humanities. Taught Fall 2016 at Dartmouth College for the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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