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Armando Maggi started the topic Concept of "Ruins" in Contemporary Culture in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoI’m interested in investigating the concept of ‘ruins’ in its broadest connotations, certainly not limited to its most common sense of ancient or modern ‘ruined’ building.
I am proposing a seminar at the next ACLA conference, and proposals for this seminar can be posted until the end of October 2020. This is a link to the seminar “Ruins: Marvel,…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJoin us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sendebar (1253) Spanish version in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction in Spanish, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.
This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sendebar (1253) Spanish version in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction in Spanish, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.
This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sendebar (1253) English version in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction in English, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing English translation and notes, and a short bibliography.
This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sendebar (1253) English version in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction in English, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing English translation and notes, and a short bibliography.
This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (Spanish version) in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction (Spanish), edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.
The text is the first modernization of the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter and th…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (Spanish version) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction (Spanish), edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.
The text is the first modernization of the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter and th…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (English version) in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction (English), edition of the original Castilian text with facing English translation and notes, and a short bibliography.
The text is the first English translation from the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter an…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (English version) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis unit contains a brief introduction (English), edition of the original Castilian text with facing English translation and notes, and a short bibliography.
The text is the first English translation from the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter an…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPlease see abstract.
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Aileen A. Feng started the topic CFP: “Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” — RSA 2021 (Dublin) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRenaissance Society of America (RSA), 2021 Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland, 7-10 April 2021 (https://www.rsa.org/page/RSADublin2021)
“Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” sponsored by the Dante Society of America (DSA; https://www.dantesociety.org/)
Organized by Erminia Ardissino, with Aileen A. Feng (DSA representative to…[Read more]
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Call for Papers – Women & Language (Journal) in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues, (apologies for previous multiple posts; a website glitch, now fixed), I have been asked to share this call for papers. You can also see it here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an internation…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Conversos e identidad in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Conversos and Identity in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with English introduction, translation, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an…[Read more]
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