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Nicky Agate started the topic An invitation to a literary trivia quiz in Austin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at [Read more]
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Holly Larson deposited The Art of Negotiation: Student Writers Claiming Authority and Humility in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoOne of the hardest concepts to teach first-year composition students is the role of authority in academic writing. How are young adults who have a limited social world view and older adults who have left school for several years expected to assert themselves with confidence? Equally, another difficult threshold concept for FYC students is the act…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:
http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin
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Peter C. Herman deposited review: The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article is a review of the Haan-Lewalski OUP edition of Milton’s shorter. The book, I argue, is inexcusably difficult to use, and suggests that perhaps the time has come to replace long, very expensive tomes with digital editions.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Pedagogical / Research Items of Interest? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester, and happy holidays! I wanted to alert you to the research papers, book chapters, annotated bibliographies, and pedagogical materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members using CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read you…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Items of Potential Interest in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the many pedagogical materials and publications that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and even to share some of your own.
– Nicky Aga…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/5 -
Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHave cognitive scientists misread autism? What happens if, instead of simply accepting such research, literary critics turned to the actual prose and poetry written by autistic authors, such as Tito Mukhopadhyay and Donna Williams? Literary theory may never be the same once it comes to terms with neurodiversity.
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
Dear colleagues,
The new issue of Caracteres, vol. 4 n. 2, is now available both in our website and as a downloadable PDF file: http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n1mayo2015/ In this issue you will find a monograph coordinated by María Ángeles Grande entitled “Wolds under…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 4: Ilit Ferber (TAU) “A Feel for Benjamin”:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of Benjamin in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Katina Rogers deposited Rethinking the Dissertation: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a position paper for an upcoming workshop convened by the Council of Graduate Schools on rethinking the dissertation. In it, I reflect on what new technologies enable us to do with this critical milestone in graduate study. My main argument is that while the affordances of specific technologies can be exciting, more important is the shift…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Secret Life of Fiction" in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago“The Secret Life of Fiction” uses cognitive literary theory to critique the failure of “The Common Core Standards Initiative” to recognize fiction as a catalyst of complex thinking in students.
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