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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
GS Poetry and Poetics 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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate.” Shakespeare Survey 74 (2021): 15-29 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis article examines new theories and praxis of listening for silenced voices and of telling compelling stories that make us human. Elucidation of our Levinas-inspired theories of the Other is followed by a discussion of classroom practices for in-person and remote instruction that foster collaborative knowledge building and intersectional…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Iconic Lyricism and Personal Perspective in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoIt is my contention that iconic lyrics of this period register a shift in awareness of human psychology that gives them a status equal to that we might grant to major tragedies like Hamlet and King Lear, or novels such as Proust’s masterpiece and War and Peace. The contemporary literary and artistic consequences of this evolution are perhaps more…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more] -
David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version] in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved on a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version] in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe Mocedades de Rodrigo is an epic poem in Castilian that narrates the fictional deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the young Cid. The prose narrative of his youth first appears in 1295. The unique version in verse is preserved in a much later manuscript (ca. 1400). The poem includes the early history of the families of the poem’s two main pr…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited “Decolonizing” Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDescribes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton’s Paradise Lost…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Critical Making for Humanist Scholarship in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoFall 2021, fully online, asynchronous course: Critical making is a practice of making as scholarship, grounded in the humanities, that interweaves design, function, and theory towards born-digital scholarly practice. Engaging in scholarly communication through digital platforms demands attention to code, software, and hardware. This course…[Read more]
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Magdalena Ostas deposited Thinking with Austen: Literature, Philosophy, and Anne Elliot’s Inner World in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay discusses pedagogical approaches to teaching Austen’s Persuasion as a novel situated at the intersection of literature and philosophy. It focuses on how Persuasion takes up, talks back to, and helps illuminate classic philosophical questions about personhood, sociality, ethics, consciousness, and the space of inner life. It discusses c…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Robert Henryson: From Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis is the pre-publication version of my edition of the selected fables of Robert Henryson. It is now published in an online supplement to The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Volume 1: The Medieval Period. Ed. Joseph Black, et al. 3rd edition. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2015; revised and expanded, 2018.…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic Disability accommodations for authors in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI’m an MLA member who works on intersections between 19th-century literature, philosophy, and music. I’m reaching out to this group with a question: do you know of any academic presses that are willing to make accommodations for disabled authors?
My situation is that I’m a disabled independent scholar (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014) who has…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoA literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)
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Dustin Friedman deposited E.M. Forster, the Clapham Sect, and the Secular Public Sphere in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoCritics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Paterian Cosmopolitanism: Euphuism, Negativity, and Genre in Marius the Epicurean in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn this essay, I argue that Walter Pater’s description of “Euphuism” in Marius the Epicurean (1885) relies upon the insights of idealist philosophy in order to articulate a theory of what Rebecca Walkowitz calls “cosmopolitan style.” Specifically, Pater draws upon a disparate number of cultural discourses in his articulation of Euphuism while…[Read more]
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Erin McGuirl started the topic Call for Fellowship Applications from the BSA: Deadline October 1, 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to…[Read more]
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Spencer Hawkins started the topic CFP: “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHello colleagues,
I am writing to announce our call for papers for the special issue 36 of the journal Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. The title of the special issue, edited by Lavinia Heller and Spencer Hawkins, is “The (Self)translation of Knowledge: Scholarship in Migration.” Please see the following link for details: [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
TC Philosophy and Literature 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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