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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe have passed peer review. Theory will be important in this text. We are looking for essays involving literature viewed through class theory. Let us see what you have!
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Reimagining the Dutch Golden Age (MLA2020, Seattle, WA) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, MLA 2020, JANUARY 9-12, 2020 (SEATTLE, WA)
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of work on the literary culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Renewed attention to major figures such as Vondel, Huygens, and Bredero alongside lesser known writers, both in Dutch and Neo-Latin, continues to uncover the intricate ways in…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Law, Literature, and Human Rights" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFP below for the Law and the Humanities Forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2020. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz and Christine Holbo*************
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Seattle, January 9-12, 2020Law, Literature, and Human Rights
Papers examining…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Ulrich Tiedau started the topic CfP: Worlding the Low Countries (London, UK, November 6-8, 2019) in the discussion
LLC Dutch on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWorlding the Low Countries: 13th international conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS2019)
6–8 November 2019, University College London, UK
Call for Papers
As the truism goes, we are all connected, yet research on the worldliness of the Low Countries is still a rather minor fraction of Dutch Studies. The ALCS2019 c…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years agoArchives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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