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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMemorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]
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Emily Friedman deposited “Let people tell their stories their own way”: Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years agoIn the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]
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Ellen Welch started the topic On behalf of LLC 16th-century in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoWith apologies for cross-posting, please see information about the LLC 16th-century French forum’s sessions at this weekend’s conference below:
· From the LLC French Sixteenth-Century Forum at the MLA:Please join us via the MLA Confex portal (if you are registered) for most sessions; and for free worldwide on Zoom for our Saturday sessio…[Read more]
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Masano Yamashita started the topic Appointment to Executive Committee LLC 18th-century French in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the opening seat on the LLC French 18th-century Forum Executive Committee. The MLA is shifting away from elections toward an appointment model. This means that nominations from the membership are more important than ever. Please email your suggestions to masano.yamashita@colorado.edu by…[Read more]
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Ellen Welch started the topic Update on 17th-c French sessions and call for executive committee nominations in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years agoHello friends,
A quick update in preparation for the MLA convention starting on Thursday. At this point, all of the sessions organized by the LLC 17th-French Forum have gone online or been postponed to next year:
- Friday, 7 January 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM. 179V Francophonie and the Early Modern: Intertextual Connections [online]
- Friday, 7…
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Ellen Welch started the topic MLA sessions and other gatherings in DC this January in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHope to see some of you at MLA in Washington, DC on January 6-9, 2022, with some sessions held online (indicated by the “V”). Please take note of these sessions featuring (or of interest to) members of our dix-septiémiste community:
- Friday, 7 January 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM. 179V Francophonie and the Early Modern: Intertextual Connections
- Friday,…
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoFor the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Nominee Statement for Forum Election (CLCS 18th-Century) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHello, my name is Sarah Benharrech and I would be deeply honored to be elected officer of the MLA 18th-c. Comparative Forum (CLCS 18th-Century).
Stemming from previous work on the morphology of characters in drama and novels in light of contemporary debates on taxonomy in eighteenth-century France, my current research focuses on enmeshments of…[Read more]
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Emily Sun started the topic Statement about Candidacy for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoI am glad to have been nominated to serve on this Forum’s Executive Committee. Please find my brief statement below.
I am Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College, having taught previously in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University in…[Read more]
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Ashley Williard replied to the topic Forum Executive Committee Candidates in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThanks, Joy, for setting up the topic and getting the conversation going!
I’m Ashley Williard, assistant professor in the Francophone Studies Program (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) at the University of South Carolina. I completed my PhD in French at the City University of New York Graduate Center. My research examines d…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Joy Palacios started the topic Forum Executive Committee Candidates in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections are around the corner! Voting will begin in early November and close on December 10th. I am creating this topic so that candidates for the LLC 17th-Century French Forum’s executive committee can post a notice about their interests and goals.
My name is Joy Palacios and I am an assistant professor of R…[Read more]
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Sarah Benharrech started the topic Call for abstracts: ASECS panel on Knowledge and Practices in the 18th Century in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
If you are planning to attend ASECS annual meeting in Baltimore next Spring, please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel, the deadline has been extended to October 8th.
124. Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in the Eighteenth Century
This panel seeks to interrogate literary, cultural, and pictorial…[Read more]
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Ellen Welch started the topic 17th-c French Sessions at MLA 2022 – Early Registration deadline October 7 in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe early registration deadline for this year’s MLA convention is coming soon, on October 7. The convention will take place in Washington, DC on January 6-9, 2022, with some sessions held online. Please take note of these sessions featuring (or of interest to) members of our dix-septiémiste community:
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoCanon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more] - Load More
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