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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic at NeMLA in the discussion
Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoLeslie 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, 29). However, for settlers within the early colonies and citizens of the young republic, the wilderness of the supposed New World…[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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Ben Carver replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI’ve just attended a conference in Aarhus, where Elly McCausland presented on unreliable maps in Children’s adventure fiction, from her current monograph project. Another genre where maps proliferate is invasion fiction. Childers’ Riddle of the Sands is impossible to read without referring to the 2 (3?) accompanying maps.
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoMaps and fantasy definitely are more common! If you know any theoretical articles associated with that it would likely be helpful as well. I’m working on a project where I digitally map post-apocalyptic spaces and I am trying to situate my work in the context of literary maps, more specifically utopias and science fiction, but discussions of maps…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoTally and Harvey do have some good comments on mapmaking in relation to the geopolitical implications of maps in general. There is also chapter 11: “Utopia of the Map” in Utopics: Spatial Play by Louis Marin that discusses the map as a model of its object but also a double of the Empire as a global institution.
You might also be interested in…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis may sound weird, but the only SF work I can think of in which a map drives the action is Starman Jones. Maps are a much bigger deal in fantasy.
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Dana Gavin replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoOne of the notes I made as I was thinking about your original query is the ethics of map-making (of imaginary worlds as well as “real” ones). It sounds like both Tally and Harvey might be helpful with that? I’m thinking about my own biases as I try to make up my own maps, assumptions, that sort of thing. Have you run into any of those issues in…[Read more]
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James Gifford started the topic CFP: Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory (Due: 3 Jul 2018) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory”
Special feature in The New Americanist
In association with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” The Communist Manifesto (1850)
A frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre ficti…[Read more]
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Sophie A. Lewis deposited Enjoy It While It Lasts: From Sterility Apocalypses to Non-Nihilistic Non-Reproduction in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThank you for your helpful response! I actually have not looked at the article or book that you mentioned. My previous research took me to Robert J. Tally’s comments on Cognitive Mapping, in <i>Utopia in the Age of Globalization </i>David Harvey’s Spaces of Hope both of which are less about maps per-se but rather a discussion of the geop…[Read more]
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Dana Gavin replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI am so interested in this topic — thank you for introducing it!
You are probably well familiar with this online article, but I found it really helpful to get myself situated: https://bookriot.com/2015/09/02/making-maps-books-two-cartographers-tell-us-done/
I find the idea of the back-and-forth between the map-makers and the authors really…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière started the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoI am currently working on a project that involves digitally mapping contemporary post-apocalyptic spaces from Speculative Fiction. I was wondering if anyone knows of any useful articles or books on the tradition of maps in Speculative and Science Fictions. Any recommendations welcome! Thank you!
I would also love to discuss this further if anyone…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited ‚Der Sinn der höchsten Meister von Paris‘ mit ‚Sendbrief-Aderlassanhang‘ Transkription aus Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoTranscription of a tract on the plague from a German manuscript from ca 1463, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1, fol. 51ra-rb.
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Marco Heiles deposited ‚Der Sinn der höchsten Meister von Paris‘ mit ‚Sendbrief-Aderlassanhang‘ Transkription aus Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1 in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoTranscription of a tract on the plague from a German manuscript from ca 1463, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1, fol. 51ra-rb.
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd’s failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle’s tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Pedro I y la propaganda antipetrista en la génesis y el éxitode la poesía cancioneril castellana, II in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoEste trabajo continúa la senda del primero, en que se demostró que la negación del reinado de Pedro I y el oscurecimiento del propio monarca fueron de enorme importancia en la gestación y difusión de la poesía de cancionero castellana bajomedieval. Sin embargo, en los años iniciales del siglo XVI algunos autores menores, en especial Pedro de Gra…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Marc Philip Saurette deposited Rhetorics of Reform: Abbot Peter the Venerable and the Twelfth-Century Rewriting of the Cluniac Monastic Project in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis dissertation considers how Peter the Venerable, the abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156, implemented reform through a textual program. Peter’s abbacy witnessed a period of fundamental reconstruction, in which not only the practices of Cluniac monasticism, but also its mentality and institutional ethos underwent dramatic change. This period e…[Read more]
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