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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – University of Miami – MLL Graduate Student Conference 2018 in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Sexuality Studies group, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of Literary and Cultural Theory, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two: “New” Theoretical Approaches
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Martin Paul Eve deposited The Great Automatic Grammatizator: writing, labour, computers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWhat does it mean when we say that computers can ‘write’ and how are recent developments in neural networks and machine learning changing this capacity? This article examines the long-standing literary fear of authorship being replaced by machines while also interrogating the labour and credit implications that sit behind widely used str…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago“Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer review and charge for their publishing services but do not, in fact, actually perform such reviews. Most prominently exposed in recent years by Jeffrey Beall, the phenomenon garners much media attention. In this article, we ack…[Read more]
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic features of Afro-Romanic and, if yes, which ones? Which data are consistent with the presence…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic features of Afro-Romanic and, if yes, which ones? Which data are consistent with the presence…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marin deposited Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic features of Afro-Romanic and, if yes, which ones? Which data are consistent with the presence…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited List of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoList of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).
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Molly A. Martin replied to the topic Executive Committee in the discussion
Arthurian Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHere is a statement from Jenny Wollock, who is up for election to the CLCS Arthurian Forum Executive Committee.
Dear Colleagues,
I am honored to be invited to stand as a candidate for election to the
Executive Committee of the CLCS Arthurian Literature Forum.Arthurians of our generation are fortunate in their field of study. We…[Read more]
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Thomas GOODMANN posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI am very glad to be asked to stand as a candidate for the executive committee of this forum. A faculty member in English at the University of Miami, I am the editor of Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman (forthcoming from MLA Publications) and am co-hosting with Heather Blatt of Florida International University the 2019 meeting of t…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Lit in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on "Environment, Ecology, Clim in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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