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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoAbstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:
https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agohttps://apply.interfolio.com/32882
We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 4: Ilit Ferber (TAU) “A Feel for Benjamin”:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Transnational Medieval (journal) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoLICO Call for Papers: Medieval Literature and the Trans-National
Literature Compass invites contributions for a special issue on transnationalism in medieval literature.
The period from c. 500 to c. 1500CE can be characterized by fluidity of borders and identities. While a town or individual might have belonged to a particular religious group or…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic A teaser for a new project about Walter Benjamin on MLA Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 2: Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) about Benjamin Biographies: https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/1
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic A teaser for a new project about Walter Benjamin on MLA Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAn introduction to the new series is now on line:
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic A teaser for a new project about Walter Benjamin on MLA Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th: https://futureofbenjamin.mla.hcommons-staging.org
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Zoe Roth started the topic Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoI am one of those “brave souls” that Benjamin Schreier dared to throw their hat in the ring for membership to the Executive Committee, so here goes. I’m a US-born, UK-educated, and French-inclined academic currently based at Durham University. No, that is not a generic college near Duke, but rather the UK’s third oldest university that you’ve…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai deposited Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities. in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPublished as part of the Theories and Methodologies section on Oceanic Studies.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.
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