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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global are…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie: regards croi in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoCall for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and framed the emergence of mod…[Read more] -
Marisa Verna deposited Des anges en robe de laine. L’âme nue de Rimbaud in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years agoDu paletot idéal de «Ma Bohème » à la robe de laine des anges de Mystique, les tissus se dématérialisent dans la poésie de Rimbaud. La portée du champ sémantique des étoffes et des vêtements dans l’œuvre du poète de Charleville structure, avec d’autres thèmes, l’esthétique de la Voyance. Le monde s’habille, en effet, d’âme, tandis que l’âme…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited La synesthésie dans Le Spleen de Paris. De la fusion à l’agrégation in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years agoIf synesthesia is rare in “Le Spleen de Paris”, it is also differently constructed and shaped than in the Fleurs du Mal. This article aims to demonstrate that this evolution points out a shift in Baudelaire’s esthetics, that from Unity of Univers seems to move towards fragmentation of reality: actually, from Baudelaire to Proust.
Abstract in…[Read more] -
Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to FESMAN in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Julia V. Douthwaite deposited How Revolutionary is our Scholarship Today? in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis is a longer version of my conference paper, in which I provide some ideas on how to merge scholarship on 18th-c France, especially the revolutionary period, with the kinds of advocacy promoted by the MLA. I foreground exciting new work done by colleagues in the US, UK, and Italy, and provide a “sneak peek” at materials to be included in the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Articles of Interest? in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the scholarly materials that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (They are denoted by the “Deposits” menu item to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleagues’ work and, perhaps, share some of your own!
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Colloque (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic Colloque international (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)
De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer
Colloque international
84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir
Université du Québec à Montréal
11, 12, 13 mai 2016
En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysi…[Read more]
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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Au coeur de Paris. MOOC in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoOnline course
The course Au coeur de Paris, Baudelaire et Paris is a Massive Open Open Course, and focuses on the relation between Baudelaire’s poetry and the city of Paris, within an interdisciplinary approach that includes literary, geographic and artistic features.
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Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoIn an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited Applied Blake: Milton's Response to Empire in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoStudying William Blake means studying the event of history, the way history merges with and emerges within theology, politics and philosophy. William Blake’s poetry has had a precarious relationship with history; his work resonates from very specific historical concerns and yet also seems to struggle against being confined to any formal h…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis essay focuses on the autobiographical strategies deployed by Ambrose Bierce in response to shifting conceptions of the literary representation of everyday life. I place Bierce at the transition point between nineteenth and twentieth-century realism, between an understanding of typical experience as comfortably generic and a growing sense that…[Read more]
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Steven G. Kellman deposited "Alien autographs: how translators make their marks" in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoLike other forms of treachery, translation can be either concealed or exposed. Though most literary translators work in the dark and some embrace invisibility as an ideal, all translations can be situated along the continuum of illusionist-anti-illusionist or domesticating-foreignizing. A variety of paratexts lay bare the devices of translation.…[Read more]
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Linda M. Willem started the topic John Kronik Travel Grant in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoJohn Kronik Award: $1,000 Research and Travel Grant for Graduate Students, awarded by the International Association of Galdós Scholars.
Prerequisites:
Candidate must be a member of the International Association of Galdós Scholars.
The research project must either be on Galdós, or have a component focused on his work.
Candidate must have at…[Read more] -
Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHi Adam, That’s amazing that MVC will be the focus of Yale French Studies… my how times change. Sorry I don’t have time to engage with your thesis, but wish you well. And perhaps my article-length review of the English version of ACF that appeared in 2009 will be of use to you. There’s a link to it on the last page of my website,…[Read more]
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Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo started the topic Caribbean Studies Association 41st annual conference in Haiti in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCARIBBEAN GLOBAL MOVEMENTS: PEOPLE, IDEAS, CULTURE, ARTS and ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
Hotel Karibe, Pétionville, Haïti, June 5-11, 2016
The Caribbean has always been the site of global interactions and transactions. Movements from one place to the other across diverse geographic locations and spaces (from island to island, the circum-Caribbean a…[Read more]
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Adam Dexter started the topic Marie Vieux-Chauvet in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoI recently discovered that Yale French Studies is devoting an entire issue to the brilliance of Marie Vieux-Chauvet. I’m currently writing my MA thesis on Amour, Colere et Folie. If anyone is interested in reading it/making comments/suggesting sources, I would greatly appreciate it.
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