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Doris Hambuch deposited Including E-Literature in Mainstream Cultural Critique: The Case of Graphic Art by Khaled Al Jabri in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay uses the image-based work of Emirati cartoonist Khaled Al Jabri to address concerns of technological dependence to reconsider our use of screens. The production of electronic literature requires technologies responsible for undeniable hazards unique to today’s information and gadget age. As represented in Al Jabri’s graphic art, these…[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
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 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] -
A. David Lewis deposited Cancer and Comic Books: Distinguishing the Subgenre [Poster] in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFor at least the last twenty years, scholarly attention has been drawn to the numerous depictions of cancer in comic books as well as oncology’s use of the comics medium (Rhode and Connor, 2012). However, little in the way of comprehensive analysis has been attempted, especially in terms of the various genres addressed. In this presentation, a ca…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoA brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists’ Books in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBlack artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Soothing Satire in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” as almost a Gen Xer’s “version of John Updike’s Couples”; that is, as, a place where, like Updike’s book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike’s work, where — considering the time it was written in, the ’70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure’s Sake in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores how Max Vigne, from Andrea Barrett’s “Servants of the Map,” makes use of the dangerous Himalayan mountain environment as almost as Winnicottian “play space,” in which to recover from being requited to a life of obligation, rather than real-self discovery, after his mother’s death.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDiscussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discu…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Consolidating Gains in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA review of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry, emphasizing how he used his poetry to both explore and manage his relationship with his dominating mother. Argues that none of Kunitz’s elegies work as conventional elegies, or as we traditionally understand or expect them to work, but more as working their way to the direction Peter Sacks advocates, as…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Medieval Literature in the Contact Zone — review essay in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExemplaria review essay by Sarah Elliott Novacich of recent books by Simon Gaunt, Jonathan Hsy, and Shirin Khanmohamadi on medieval contact zones.
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV Studies for all? On Open Access and Publishing in TV and Media Studies in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPersonal perspective on the current state of open access and publishing practices in the fields of Television and Media Studies, and pointers to a variety of scholar-led initiatives and options of where scholars can actually publish open access in their field without the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs).
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