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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA election to CLCS-Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoHi everyone, My name is Shirin Khanmohamadi and I’m honored to have been nominated for election to the executive committee of CLCS- Medieval and wanted to introduce myself a bit here. I am an Associate Professor of premodern literature in the Comparative and World Literature department at San Francisco State University, where I’ve been teac…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck’s Mission to Mongolia in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoReads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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FRENCH NATURES featuring BRUNO LATOUR’s conference-spectacle “INSIDE”
October 26-27, 2018, New York UniversityA two-day conference-festival about how literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy mediate our relationship to the planet in our times of environmental catas…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoIn recent years, Anne Askew has attained something of celebrity status among scholars of Tudor women’s writing and, more generally, of Tudor Reformation history. In the course of privileging Askew’s examinations above those of other female defendants (such as Elizabeth Young), scholars sometimes equate Askew’s rhetorical expertise with legal exper…[Read more]
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic, NeMLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis panel on the American ecogothic will take place at the 50th annual NeMLA conference (March 21-24, 2019 in Washington, DC).
Leslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2019 MLA Panel: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please find the details for an upcoming session at the 2019 MLA conference sponsored by the “Pre-14th century Chinese literature” forum. We look forward to seeing you there!
Panel Title: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History
Keywords: Early China, Medieval China, textual tra…[Read more]
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Marcia T. Eppich-Harris deposited Hubert’s Encounters with the Succession in Shakespeare’s King John in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn a time when the anxiety about Elizabeth I’s heir to the throne was ripe, and illegal to discuss, Shakespeare focuses on the issue of succession in King John, and shows the parallels to his own age, while using Hubert as a metaphor for the difficult position of Shakespeare’s contemporary citizens of England as they anticipate the naming of…[Read more]
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I ‘in Sight and View of all the World’: An Unpublished Spanish Letter in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago(Ver 2.1.) To be printed in Queens on Stage. Female Sovereignty, Power, and Sexuality in Early Modern English Theatre ed. Bianca Del Villano e Tommaso Continisio (Rome: Aracne). – comments welcome!
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Mary Gallucci deposited Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice. Courtney Quaintance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 260 pp. $70. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI review Quaintance’s study of homosocial culture in Renaissance Venice. I analyze the issues of gender, sexual violence, and humor discussed in the book.
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I’s Italian letters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoFactsheet for “Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters” (Palgrave US, 2017)
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