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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoVladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Feisal G. Mohamed posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoColleagues: Please consider signing the petition ‘1% for Adjuncts,’ which would have the MLA annually set aside 1% of its assets to support adjunct unionization.
And, just as importantly, please share the petition widely: on email lists, via social media, and the like.
Full petition here: https://forms.gle/qgjBJi4KMjh2Tj2Q6With best wishes,
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
“SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations”
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago“Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]
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Jen McConnel started the topic Connecting with the community in the discussion
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHello everyone! I have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on Teaching as a Profession, and I wanted to introduce myself before the voting window opens next week. I’m a long-time teacher-researcher, and recently I began my position as an assistant professor of English education at Longwood University in Virginia.
My work centers around s…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoMany screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGlobal studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Executive Committee Candidate's Statement–Dorothy Stringer in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoGreetings, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee, so I’d like to tell the membership a little about myself. I work in African American and US 20th-century literatures. My first book was on trauma theory and references to slavery in modern literature and photography, and my current project describes appropriations,…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic MLA election in the discussion
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe MLA office asked candidates for election to a forum’s executive committee to post here.
Hi, everyone! My name is Alexa, and I teach Shakespeare, race, and gender in the Department of English in George Washington University. I would like to introduce myself.
I chaired the MLA committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare and served on…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic THE JACK PRIZE – International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures in the discussion
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn 2018, the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures launched the Jack Prize, awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The prize is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack D.Litt. FRSE (1941-2016),…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]
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