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Alexandra Berlina started the topic CFP: international conference on ostranenie (aka estrangement/defamiliarization) in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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Hester Blum started the topic Prose Fiction Division Panel MLA 2017: The Sense of an Ending, Now in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Prose Fiction Division invites submissions for the following division panel for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
The Sense of an Ending, Now
Forum: GS Prose Fiction
Fifty years after the publication of Frank Kermode’s classic, we invite papers on the form, theme, and theory of endings. Death, epoch, marriage, apocalypse, ellipses. Abstracts by 1…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
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Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global are…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie: regards croi in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCall for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and framed the emergence of mod…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie: regards croi in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCall for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and framed the emergence of mod…[Read more] -
Marisa Verna deposited Des anges en robe de laine. L’âme nue de Rimbaud in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years agoDu paletot idéal de «Ma Bohème » à la robe de laine des anges de Mystique, les tissus se dématérialisent dans la poésie de Rimbaud. La portée du champ sémantique des étoffes et des vêtements dans l’œuvre du poète de Charleville structure, avec d’autres thèmes, l’esthétique de la Voyance. Le monde s’habille, en effet, d’âme, tandis que l’âme…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited La synesthésie dans Le Spleen de Paris. De la fusion à l’agrégation in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years agoIf synesthesia is rare in “Le Spleen de Paris”, it is also differently constructed and shaped than in the Fleurs du Mal. This article aims to demonstrate that this evolution points out a shift in Baudelaire’s esthetics, that from Unity of Univers seems to move towards fragmentation of reality: actually, from Baudelaire to Proust.
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Sean Guynes started the topic 2017 MLA CFP: Science Fiction's Countercultures in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoDangerous Visions: Science Fiction’s Countercultures
In the introduction to the chapter on “Countercultures” in his edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014), Rob Latham asserts that “Science fiction has always had a close relationship with countercultural movements” (383). The alternative worldmaking capacities of SF&F, in oth…[Read more] -
Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to FESMAN in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: Cultural Festivals and The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Oct 20-22) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane Bachir Diagne…[Read more] -
Caroline Edwards deposited Interview with Jon McGregor in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:
Born in 1976 in Bermuda, Jon McGregor grew up in Norfolk and currently lives in Nottingham in the UK. McGregor came to literary prominence with the publication of his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury, 2002). The novel was an immediate success and at just…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic Beat Studies at ALA 2016 – CFP in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2017 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2017, post them here or email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the committee members before MLA! Sorry for late notice. (Teaching starts tomorrow here.)
Jonathan
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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 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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Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoI’d like to invite any members of the group attending this year’s convention to the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place on Thursday night at the JW. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.
For more information (and to reserve your spot), visit
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