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Derek Johnston deposited The Broadcast Afterlife of the Christmas Ghost Story in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThere is a long tradition in the UK, in England in particular, of the Christmas ghost story. The most famous is probably Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, but close behind are the ghost stories of M.R.James. James wrote many of his stories as Christmas entertainments, but this link was reinforced in the 1970s w…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Seasonal Horror Traditions and Reflecting on Fear in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper focuses on UK and US traditions of seasonal horror at Christmas and Halloween to consider how they provide opportunities for reflection on the causes of fear at liminal times in the calendar. These liminal times contain numerous traditions dedicated to looking back and forward, such as end of year reviews, or addresses from heads of…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Ritualmagische Wahrsagerei in der Handschrift 3227a des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoRitual-magical divination in manuscript Hs. 3227a of the Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
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Marco Heiles deposited Ritualmagische Wahrsagerei in der Handschrift 3227a des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoRitual-magical divination in manuscript Hs. 3227a of the Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American – MLA 2021 in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTitle: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited La ciencia ficción de Carlos Gardini en el cambio de milenio in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTras el análisis de las tres novelas que Carlos Gardini publica en este siglo, se observa que la característica formal más notable es una trama concebida para conducir a un instante de revelación plena sobre el mundo, re-conocido ahora en un momento de luminosa anagnórisis. Esta anagnórisis consiste en la comprensión por parte de un protag…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Mexico con X de Galaxia. La ciencia ficción de Mexico DF. Hugo Hiriart y ‘La destrucción de todas las cosas’ in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEn el caso de cierta CF escrita en México, hay una doble invasión: espacial y temporal. Ocurre así, por ejemplo, en La destrucción de todas las cosas (1992), de Hugo Hiriart, y en “La catástrofe” (1984), recogido en La sangre de Medusa de José Emilio Pacheco.211 En estos textos, se emplea un género que se percibe como ajeno para abordar la disloca…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited La ciencia ficción de Angélica Gorodischer. ‘Trafalgar’ (1979) y ‘Kalpa Imperial’ (1983-1984) in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNo sólo la calidad une Trafalgar y Kalpa Imperial, o el hecho de que cierren un primer periodo de la obra de Gorodischer. En ambos libros la fi gura central es un narrador que relata aventuras y acontecimientos en lo que es, explícita o implícitamente, otro planeta, muchos en Trafalgar, uno solo en Kalpa Imperial. Estos planetas y estos ac…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Hacia un modelo de la ciencia ficción. La práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEn el capítulo 1 se ofrece un modelo del funcionamiento del género de la ciencia ficción construido desde una cierta mirada del latinoamericanista. El capítulo 2 examina la práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina.
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Extranjero en tierra extraña. El género de la ciencia ficción en América Latina [Introducción] in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLa ciencia ficción latinoamericana es, ante todo, ficción latinoamericana. Participa íntegramente de las corrientes culturales y artísticas que nutren la literatura de América Latina, al tiempo que constituye un específi co punto de articulación de éstas. Englobable en la literatura de lo insólito, la ciencia ficción (CF a partir de ahora) es…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited “‘Let Me Enter the Heaven of Her Consciousness.’ Cosmopolitan Ghosts in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel.” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMy purpose in this article is to analyze Bioy’s novel in terms of two concepts from two well-known studies on specters and haunting, and to connect this spectral dimension of the novel to current discussions of the concept of cosmopolitanism. The first idea I will use is Derrida’s njunction that one needs “to learn to live with ghosts” (Specte…[Read more]
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Jose Ángel Salgado Loureiro started the topic International Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology” (Call for papers) in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoInternational Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology”
(Santiago de Compostela, July 28-29th, 2020)
Eschatology is one of the central components of medieval Christian culture. The end of the world, the Last Judgment, salvation, Messianism, the Antichrist, the Apocalypticism and millenarianism are inescapable elements in what we may generally…[Read more] -
Jose Ángel Salgado Loureiro started the topic International Conference " The Medieval Eschatology" (Call for papers) in the discussion
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoInternational Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology (Santiago de Compostela, July 28-29th, 2020)
Eschatology is one of the central components of medieval Christian culture. The end of the world, the Last Judgment, salvation, Messianism, the Antichrist, the Apocalypticism and millenarianism are inescapable elements in what we may generally describe…[Read more] -
Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Call for Papers | Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (Oct 22-23 2020, Amsterdam) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to pre-modern manuscripts and manuscript texts. Key topics include:
• Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to pre-modern written cultures;
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Evina Steinova deposited Call for Papers | Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (Oct 22-23 2020, Amsterdam) in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to pre-modern manuscripts and manuscript texts. Key topics include:
• Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to pre-modern written cultures;
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan started the topic CFP: Interrogating Folklore and the Literary Fairy-tale in the Anthropocene in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoApologies, a repost because the formatting was messed up on my previous post!
Dear Everyone,
My co-editors and I will be submitting a book proposal on the topic above to a university press. Please do consider contributing a chapter!
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2020
Full name / name of organization: Dr. Anita Harris Satkunananthan,…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited HWGL-Neuerscheinungen 2019 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoListe der Neuerscheinungen zur deutschsprachigen historischen Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur 2019.
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Ryan Taycher deposited De fundamento discanti: Structure and Elaboration in Fourteenth-Century Counterpoint in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe primary goal of this dissertation is to produce a rigorous methodology for distinguishing between the contrapunctus structure and its elaboration in performing structural analysis of fourteenth-century diminished counterpoint. This methodology is based on historical thought by carefully analyzing contemporaneous treatises and their musical…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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