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Bradley J. Fest deposited Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. On the one hand, the Cold War national fantasy of mutually assured destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions. On the other, there has been an increasing sobriety about human finitude, especially considered…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPublished by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis rhetorical analysis of the phrase “The Rust Belt” asks the question Is The Rust Belt real or mythical? Does Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Subaltern’ caste now inhabit the (so-called) Rust Belt? Why can’t Rust Belt writers be heard?
“The Rust Belt” is not a title anyone living there would have chosen and yet we use it. Why? Also why should we depend…[Read more] -
Peter M. Logan deposited Literature and Medicine: Twenty-Five Years Later in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAn analysis of ten studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981.
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James S. Finley deposited “Justice in the Land”: Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau’s Antislavery Essays in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis essay surveys Thoreau’s antislavery writings from across his career and demonstrates the ecological concerns central to Thoreau’s abolitionist commitment.
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis New Rheto rical Continuum Chart for Fiction shows a spectral range between individual (New Critical, structuralist, formalist) approach to group-based (socio-rhetorical) approach to fiction in the 21st Century.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The Stars our Destination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe Stars our Destination is a story of overcoming anxieties and biases from war, as well as other growing up issues in a steel mill town. Over time, the three main characters gradually converge. Two women have nightmares involving the past and the old Prof. Daniel Blei lives off and on in a flood of troubling recollections. The conclusion will…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited POEM: Tpbert Frost and Carl Sandburg in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA Robert Brownian Dramatic Dialogue
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Laurie Ringer deposited Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhatever your theory and whatever your fandom, you don’t have to abandon it to do affect theory. This is because affect theory isn’t about telling you which side to pick in an agonistic contest; it’s about finding out what a body can do as it moves with other bodies in entangled states, whether or not we notice them. Affect theory offers more…[Read more]
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Octavio Gonzalez deposited Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPart of the Introduction in lieu of an abstract:
Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated novel A Single Man portrays a gay man as an ordinary human being. For its time, the novel’s depiction of homosexuality as a legitimate minoritarian identity, rather than individual pathology, was a radical political gesture. Given this context, literary critics…[Read more] -
Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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Madhurima Chakraborty posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, ILThe South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic And this CFP, too! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Energy Humanities and African Cultural Production”
How are the entanglements of modernity, energy production and consumption, and ecological impacts represented in African cultural production? What alternative futures are imagined? a 200-word abstract by 15 March 2018; Byron…[Read more]
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