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Karin E. Westman replied to the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoCorrection to the meeting time! The Forum meeting will be Weds Jan 10, 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT.
Register for the Zoom link at https://tinyurl.com/mlachildlitexec2024
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Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum Exec Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoGreetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 4-7).
At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2025 in New Orleans (Jan 9-12).
So we can ensure r…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please click this l…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe International Committee’s Focus panel for the 2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference is “Memories”. Please see attachment for details.
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Katherine Elkins started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Good and Evil in Fairytales (and folktales) in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoHello,
I’m guest editing a special issue of humanities and we have room for a few more essays. The due date for final drafts will be a year from this August in 2024. The CFP is attached.
If you’re interested, please send me a 250-word abstract by August 2023 to elkinsk@kenyon.edu. I’m also happy to answer any questions/inquiries.
We have a g…[Read more]
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Ross Wilson deposited Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis is the proposal for ‘Reading Materials: Pots, Plaster, Poetry, and the Press, 1766-1861’, a (putative) panel for MLA 2024. Individual paper abstracts and other materials will follow.
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 2004-2023 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoAn archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 2004-2023.
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 1980-2003 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoAn archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 1980-2003.
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Deborah Elise White started the topic Forum Exectuive Committee Suggestions in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years agoHello — Please email me with any suggestions you may have for people to serve on the forum executive Committee for CLCS Romanticism & 19th Century. (Every year needs new names so even if someone is not considered for this year, it’s good for us to have several names in mind.) My email: dwhite2@emory.edu Thanks!
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Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoGreetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 5-8). At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia (Jan 4-7).
So we can ensure representation…[Read more]
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Leah Richards started the topic Gothic Studies at MLA 2023: Panels & Get-Together in the discussion
CLCS Gothic Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoHello, Gothlings! MLA 2023 is in just a few weeks, and we have badge ribbons to distribute at the convention–attend our panels or run up to me, Leah Richards, at any point to get yours. It’s like a secret handshake, only not secret, no touching, and hanging from your badge. We also have several Gothic Studies events and items of interest on which…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.
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