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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
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Lauren Coats deposited Digital Texts and Textual Data: A Pedagogical Anthology in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis collection features pedagogical artifacts created by the participants of the 2018-2019 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, “Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom.” The artifacts–assignments, syllabi, sample student work, rubrics, workshops, and more–are grouped thematically in four sec…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414–"The Pitch of the Voice" & more in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 6 years agoCome at 5:15 to 6:30 today, Fri., to Willow A in the Sheraton, for “‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theory and Practice of Interactive Storytelling Syllabus in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPart of the Digital Media MA / Texts & Technology PhD Digital Media track at the University of Central Florida. In this graduate course, we’ll engage with the making and critique of interactive works ranging from “Choose Your Own Adventure” comics to electronic literature and interactive fiction. Drawing on readings including Janet Murray’s Hamlet…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Panels organized by CLCS 18th-C. (MLA 2020, Seattle) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:
Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C“Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoBeyond the Individual #763
Sunday, January 12 2020
1:45pm-3pm
Sheraton — Willow BPresiding: Daniel Hack
- Character Networks and Collectivity Scott Selisker, U of Arizona
- Characterization and Combination Andrea Kelly Henderson, U of California, Irvine
- Mohsin Hamid’s Global Direct Address Benjamin Mangrum, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoFriday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow BSpeakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:
Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic UPCOMING DEADLINE • The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues: Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río P…[Read more]
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Victoria E. Szabo started the topic MLA 2020 Sessions sponsored by TC Digital Humanities in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoNote: please check the official MLA program for the latest info on the TC DH sessions!
019. Critical Engagements between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities
Thursday, Jan 9, 2020, 12:00 PM–1:15 PM, WSCC – 204
Session Information
Description: Panelists examine what aspects of digital humanities offer a critical lens for modern languages w…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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