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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Special Issue of Eighteenth Century Studies: Indigeneity in the Long 18th C. in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE
Eighteenth-Century StudiesSpecial Issue on Indigeneity
In Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (2016), the historian Coll Thrush repositions England’s capital not only as a city where decisions were made to dispossess Indigenous peoples, but also as a space that…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson’s Lyrics in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Keats’s Voice in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoKeats’s poetic thoughts on the topic of human identity remain some of Romanticism’s most incisive reflections on the constitution of selfhood. This essay is about the ways Keats’s verse thinks through questions about human subjectivity and its horizons with an imaginative range. Keats famously asserts that the poetical character has “no i…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust à l’écoute de Senancour. Du silence des montagnes au silence de la musique. Questions de style in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe tunefulness of Proust and Senancour. From the silence of mountains to the silence of music
For Proust, great books are the “children of silence” (CSB, p. 309), and his novel endeavors to express what could not, in principle, be formulated: nature, sensations, in brief the physical and psychic existence as a whole. In his vision, lan…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNovel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season. We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.
For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/
Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPosting to CLCS 18th c. at the request of Leland G. Spencer, editor
Call for Papers
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more] -
Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more] -
Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIt is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]
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Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.
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Annelle Curulla started the topic Publication Announcement: Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago‘Staging Justice in Early Modern France’ Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies 42.2 (2020)
Guest edited by Valérie M. Dionne and Michael Meere
Dedicated to the memory of Christian Biet
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemf20/42/2?nav=tocList
Contents:
In Memoriam—Christian Biet (1952-2020) Michael Meere
Introduction: Staging J…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter deposited Romantic Literature and the Emergence of Modern Commercial Society (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA syllabus for a 300-level (3rd year) English literature course taught at the University of Victoria’s English department
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Territoriality, Language, and Power in the 18th-19th c. Iberian World (MLA 2022 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
If you’re thinking of attending MLA 2022, please consider applying for this panel and/or spreading the word to interested colleagues. Thanks!
Nobel Prize winner and 20th-century poet Czeslaw Milosz famously wrote that “language is the only homeland.” In the 18th-19th century Iberian world, a world made by European imp…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Il cuore moltiplicato di Baudelaire in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhere was Baudelaire standing, when facing the “great questions” of the Infinite, of evil, and of the christian faith? Was he a Christian? This article does not aim to respond once for all to this question, instead it states two key words that may help to ask it in a more correct way: incarnation and charity.
Vedi la pubblicazione « Il cuore…[Read more] -
Toby Wikström started the topic Calls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022 in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years agoCalls for Papers from 17th-Century French Forum for MLA Washington, DC 2022
How the French 17th Century Invented (or Not)… What ideas, practices, forms, or genres can be ascribed to 17th-century France and what should be reconsidered in light of a different temporality or geographic origin? Send 300-word proposals to harrisod@grinnell.edu by…[Read more]
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