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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Anne Pasek deposited The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe climate impacts of the information and communications technology sector—and Big Data especially—is a topic of growing public and industry concern, though attempts to quantify its carbon footprint have produced contradictory results. Some studies argue that information and communications technology’s global carbon footprint is set to rise dra…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoTracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन साहित्य और आलोचना in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoयह फारवर्ड प्रेस की बहुजन साहित्य वार्षिकी: 2013 का संपादकीय है। इसमें बहुजन साहित्य और बहुजन आलोचना की अवधारणा पर संक्षेप में बात की गई है।
आलेख में कहा गया है कि बहुजन साहित्य का विकास वस्तुत: बहुजन आलोचना का विकास है। जैसे-जैसे हम बहुजन साहित्य को चिन्हित करते जाएंगे, अभिजन साहित्य स्वत: ही हाशिए का साहित्य बनता जाएगा क्योंकि हिंदी साहित…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited Bahujan Literature and Criticism in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis is an editorial in Forward Press’s Bahujan Literature Yearbook: 2013. It briefly discusses the concept of Bahujan literature and Bahujan criticism.
Bahujan literature is a big umbrella, under which falls Dalit literature (For convenience’s sake we can describe it as “Atishudra literature”), Shudra literature, Tribal literature and Women…[Read more] -
David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 24 — New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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