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Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP Spaces of Dialogue: International Conference on Transatlantic Studies in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues,
The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.
Spaces of…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Comparative Studies of the Long (or Short) 20th Century. in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoMLA-style calendar dates (in this case, 1900-2000) as markers of emergence or deliquescence of cultural or literary formations are obviously artificial, especially when the use of alternate periodization systems (e.g., Spanish generational, modern Japanese by emperor name, etc.) is taken into consideration. Yet such dating is also apt to take on…[Read more]
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoFor the session on reading comparative literature, the division is really interested in the ways in which new directions in reading have influenced, affected or perhaps not affected comparative literature. Thanks
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]-
greetings! the texts below may be of interest:
1) Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India, 2013. ISBN 9789382993667. 538 pages, bibliography, index. h…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2015: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee replied to the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoYes, I really meant the 2015 MLA…
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the Prose Fiction Division’s panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago next week. The Division is hosting two panels and co-sponsoring a third; details below.
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fic…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Doris Lessing Memorial in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThe Doris Lessing Society is organizing an event to mark the recent passing of Doris Lessing. It will be held on Saturday, 12 January at 8:45-10:00pm in Chicago G, Chicago Marriott hotel. All are welcome.
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Dennis Renner replied to the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI am writing from Portland, Oregon, hoping that you will be able to post or send attachments to me (dkrenner@gmail.com) from your Arthur Miller session. It is just a little too impractical for me to come to Chicago for your session, although it is of tremendous significance for a comparative project in which I am using Whitman’s thinking about the…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”>Conference Title:</p>
<p align=”center”>Translating Social Movements</p>
<p align=”center”><i>Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014</i></p>
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A. Yemisi Jimoh started the topic Journal Editing Opportunity in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoThe Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
A collective of critics, scholars, and public intellectuals based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the official launch of Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://www.ethosreview.org/). Supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, our…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Proust and Space Proust e lo spazio to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis book collects some articles on a topic often ignored by proustian sholars: Proust and space. The volume is available on the link:
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Marisa Verna uploaded the file: Les registres linguistiques dans la Recherche du Temps Perdu. L'Affaire Dreyfus to
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoMany are the works on the language of proustian characters and the unavoidable critical text by Gérard Genette, Proust et le langage indirect, has by now shown that the emergence of the characters’ deepest psychological dimension is necessarily expressed through an often swerving language: mistakes, omissions, shifts in meaning, and often an un…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]