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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: MLA 2017 Session on "The 'Uses' of Literature" in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA Executive Forum Session on The Teaching of Literature:
“The ‘Uses’ of Literature”
The focus of this session will be to explore the “uses” of literature and literary study from a wide variety of points of view. In her book The Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), Rita Felski argues that “reflecting on why literature matters . . . allows us…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited "Why Do Research?" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPMLA Forum piece that argues for the direct and indirect value of the scholarly enterprise to the sacred art of teaching.
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited "Write YOUR Story" children's writing workshop in the news! in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn this free workshop, children and preteens (age 8-12) creatively explore and expand their sense of self by thinking and writing about their life – past, present, and future. Group activities, games, solitary writing, and illustrating provide for a fun and productive setting. Students will receive individual attention and gradually realize how…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOur LLC East Asian Business Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott. (see below)
Please forward this info to your panelists and anyone else I might have missed from the list of officers.
Thanks and see you soon.Monika Dix
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Nathan Faries started the topic Invitation: First Ming/Qing LLC Forum Organizational Meeting in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Thank you very much for supporting the formation of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese forum. Because of your participation, the forum was approved and opened this past November.
Please join us for our first organizational meeting this week at the conference in Austin, led by our Chair, Professor Tina Lu.
Hope to see you all at the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Items of Potential Interest in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and even to share some of your own.
– Nicky Aga…[Read more]
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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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Melek Ortabasi started the topic New Japanese Forum created!! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
If you aren’t already a member, head on over to “LLC Japanese since 1900” and join. We are now official! Rosemary Feal informs us:
“I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Council, acting on the recommendation of the Program Committee, has approved the creation of the forum LLC Japanese since 1900.
The first official sessions…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature 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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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 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 "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature 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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Kimberly K. Dougherty deposited Urban Assault, Past and Future: Firebombing and Killer Robots in Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIn this article I examine the way Collins, in her young adult novel Mockingjay, connects historical context of an urban firebombing like those frequently seen during World War II, with the fictional presentation of a firebombing reminiscent of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five to present the horrors of war to a new generation. I then show how she m…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature 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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Jason Charles Courtmanche started the topic Executive Committee-Courtmanche in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMy name is Jason Courtmanche and I have been nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the Teaching of Literature Forum. For the last nine years I have been the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs and Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut. I was a high school English teacher for 12 years before earning my PhD,…[Read more]
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Tia Black deposited Worldviews in Literature: An Anthology in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWorldviews in Literature: An Anthology responds to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s 2012 global initiatives for study of world literature for a “New Humanism” along with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s directive for world literature “to discover what is universal across national literatures.” Worldviews includes fifteen authors fro…[Read more]
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Derek Furr started the topic Executive Committee Candidacy in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoMy name is Derek Furr, Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the MAT Program at Bard College in New York. I’ve been nominated to serve on the executive committee of the forum for the Teaching of Literature. Having been both a public school teacher and a college professor, I’m especially interested in the relationship between lit…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust deposited "The Circle Uncoiled, Unwound": Following Memory's Storyline with Mystory in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“A colored spiral in a small ball of glass, this is how I see my own life,” writes Vladimir Nabokov in his memoir, Speak, Memory. In our course “What is Memory?” we read and write with Nabokov’s life story using our own form of Gregory Ulmer’s “mystory” mode of writing as a way to discover the life cycles of memories–ours and our students as well…[Read more]
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