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paul bali deposited phoebe phoebe in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years agoa longpoem
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Vanessa Valdés posted an update in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 8 years ago***CANCELLED***Due to the inclement weather, the CLCS Hemispheric American forum meeting that has been scheduled for 5 January 2018, 1:45-3:30 p.m, room Park 2, in the Sheraton New York Times Square has been cancelled.
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Maia Gil'Adi posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoHappy new year everyone!!
For those attending the MLA 2018, clear some space for the Latinx Forum panels!
– “Latina/o New York” (Friday 01/05, 12:00 – 1:15 pm)
– “Latina/o New York II” (Saturday 01/06, 3:30 – 4:45 pm)
– “The X Factor” (co-sponsored with LLC Chicana Chicano) (Sunday 01/07 8:30 – 9:45 am)
Stay warm and hope to see you there!
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Macarena Gómez-Barris posted an update in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPlease join the CLCS Hemispheric American forum for a meeting that has been scheduled for 5 January 2018, 1:45-3:30 p.m, room Park 2, in the Sheraton New York Times Square. We look forward to seeing you! Maca
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Stony Brook University </p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>30th Annual English Graduate Conference</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>February 23rd, 2018</p>
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Literature as ActivismKeynote Speaker: Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU</p>
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with l…[Read more] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Victoria Addis deposited The Greening of Postmodern Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Graham Swift’s Waterland in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that the groundlessness associated with postmodernism is not as entrenched within its discourse as it may appear. Graham Swift’s Waterland (1992) and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), while conforming to many of the aesthetic values of postmodernism, share an ecopostmodernist platform that raises questions and con…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal – Latinx Literature & Politics Issue – Extended Deadline: Dec 15 in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoChiricú Journal announces a deadline extension for submissions for our upcoming issue on Latinx literature and politics. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Submissions by December 15 to chiricu.indiana.edu</span> For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Chiricú Journal</span><span class=”s2″> is a new, cut…[Read more] -
Caren Irr deposited Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPresents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.
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Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi deposited چرایی اقبال امرسن به حافظ: نگاهی تاریخی در بررسی یک ارتباط ادبی (Reasons behind Emerson’s Reception of Hafez: A Historical Look at a Literary Relationship) in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoدر پژوهش¬های متعدد، ارتباط میان حافظ و امرسن بررسی و در این زمینه، بیشتر بر تأثیر حافظ بر امرسن و گاه شباهت میان آندو یا شیفتگی امرسن به حافظ تأکید شده است؛ اما جنبه¬های تاریخی این ارتباط و چرایی آن بررسی نشده است. توجه به آمریکای قرن نوزدهم، جنبش¬ها و گفتمان¬های سیاسی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی این کشور، پژوهش حاضر را به نتایجی روشنگر رهنمون می¬شود.…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoReminder that the deadline for submissions to the Latinx literature edition of Chiricú Journal is a little over two weeks away. Please submit your critical articles, artwork, photography, creative writing, and interviews to chiricu.indiana.edu by December 1. If interested in reviewing a book, contact chiricu@indiana.edu. More information at our…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Andrew Newman deposited Indigeneity and Early American Literature in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoFour conceptualizations of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature provide a basis for this history and its historiography. Three of these pertain to cultural works produced at least in part by Native Americans: these are (1) written representations of Native American spoken performances, or “oral literature”; (2) wri…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited Indigeneity and Early American Literature in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoFour conceptualizations of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature provide a basis for this history and its historiography. Three of these pertain to cultural works produced at least in part by Native Americans: these are (1) written representations of Native American spoken performances, or “oral literature”; (2) wri…[Read more]
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic MLA Forum Elections in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoGood afternoon everyone,
This is just a quick reminder to please vote in the MLA elections! The LLC Latina and Latino forum is electing a new member of the executive committee and we want your input. Voting opened October 26 and closes December 10. You should have received an email with instructions from MLA last week.
Stay tuned for MLA 2018…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited “Light might possibly be requisite”: Edgar Huntly, Regional History, and Historicist Criticism in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCharles Brockden Brown’s celebrated novel Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), set in the Forks of the Delaware region of Pennsylvania, has been related to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the basis of a mistaken understanding that its action takes place during the summer of 1787. The correct date is 1785. The n…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited “Light might possibly be requisite”: Edgar Huntly, Regional History, and Historicist Criticism in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCharles Brockden Brown’s celebrated novel Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), set in the Forks of the Delaware region of Pennsylvania, has been related to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the basis of a mistaken understanding that its action takes place during the summer of 1787. The correct date is 1785. The n…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South
We are soliciting contributions to Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu
This digital platform aims to advance the field of Global South Studies by providing a conceptual mapping of key…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2018 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2018, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2018 convention in New York. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 : Call for Essays (of potential interest to scholars of American modernism and 20th-century studies)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New…[Read more] - Load More
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