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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP ICLA 2016 in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts relationally rather than…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited The correspondence of the arts in a Fin de Siècle Magazine. The “Livre d’Art” at the crossroads of Modernism in the group
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe main topic of this article is the history of a rare and precious French magazine of the late Nineteenth century, in which a vivid and crucial discussion about arts and their inter-relation grew the more and more intense in the short space of four years (1892-1896). The “Livre d’Art” was first conceived as a simple booklet to be distr…[Read more]
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Ulrike Hill deposited Mathilde Blind’s Contribution to Victorian Cosmopolitanism in the group
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoBlind’s autonomous cosmopolitanism is in four distinct layers. The first layer is her unusual everyday family background in the transition from Jewish tradition to the life of European revolutionaries in the 1840s and exile in Britain. The second layer is Blind’s mental and moral development under Friederike’s care and educational guidance accor…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Etude sur le Symbolisme in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCe livre rassemble huit études sur la littérature symboliste, que Sergio Cigada publia en italien genre 1960 et 2010. Elles sont ici pour la première fois rassemblées, par les soins de ses élèves, et traduites en français. À la lumière d’une conception “interprétative et non didactique” de la critique littéraire, Cigada décèle chez Baudelaire l…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Vers un art total. Synesthésie théâtrale et dramaturgie symboliste in the group
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe object of this article is the idea of theatrical synesthaesia, as it was developed into the relationship between painters and symbolist poets at the “Théâtre d’Art” directed by Paul Fort since november 1890 till march 1892. Aesthaetic theories of two of the most important Nabis painters (Maurice Denis and Emile Bernard) are examined in relatio…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo posted an update in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGood Day,
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. I teach French, French for Special Purposes, Francophone Literature of the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), Francophone women writing, and Translation.
My area of research is mostly in Haitian and French Antillean Literature. I am currently…[Read more] -
Claire Oberon Garcia started the topic Is anyone in Paris for the summer? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues in the Francophone Literature and Cultures Forum~ I was happy to see that, although it took a year, several of our 292 members introduced themselves and their work to our group. Such a range of interesting projects!
I am in Paris until 10 August, researching one of “my” women, the Franco-Congolese journalist, Jeanne Vialle, and…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP-Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHello, everyone,
I am a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the French and Francophone Studies Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. My research focuses on French and Francophone cinema (with a particular focus on film and genocide). Currently, I am working on representations of the Khmer Rouge regime in film and art.
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Corbin Treacy replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoGreetings!
I’m an assistant professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. My research focuses on contemporary Maghrebi literature and film, with a particular interest in Algerian cultural production. I’m currently working on a book project, Aesthetics and Aftermath in Algeria, which…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHi, everyone,
I’m an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and my research focuses primarily on discourses of the body in the contemporary literature of the Americas. I publish more on Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Anglophone authors in the Americas, but I do incorporate some Francophone American…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoHaiti: Beyond Commemorations & Boundaries (University of Chicago, May 12-14, 2016; Deadline: August 14, 2015)
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Corine Tachtiris started the topic CFPs in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoStarting a new thread for CFPs. Here’s one for the Caribbeanists, co-organized by our colleague here Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo:
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