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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
Please share this job post with your networks!
Many thanks,
Elena
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Bucknell University’s English Department seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US. The one-year r…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoAn innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited “Philosopher d’une manière ‘mariale’: Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoA review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Reviewers in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoiEnglish Journal is considering proposals for book reviews and review essays. iEnglish expects potential reviewers to have received their Ph.D. in English or a related field, or to have evidence of relevant publications or expertise.
All prospective reviewers must adhere to our ethics and conflict of interest policy: they are expected to not…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP — Race, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking 18c Studies in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoRace, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking 18th-Century Studies (Roundtable) The “eighteenth century” named and analyzed by eighteenth-century studies has proven pliable in the figuration of the “long eighteenth century.” But to what extent does the persistent attachment to this historic period—even an elongated version of it—preclud…[Read more]
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David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP — Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17c-18c World in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoAnglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17-18c World (CFP, MLA 2023)
How did two nations separated by ninety miles of salt water establish rival patterns of resource extraction, settler conquest, capital finance, and maritime logistics that came to govern life the world over? This roundtable addresses the global impress of Anglo-Dutch relations in the 1600 a…[Read more] -
Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic CFPs for Prose Fiction Forum sessions at MLA 2023 in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPlease send abstracts of 200-300 words to ylee@wellesley.edu before March 16, 2022.
- Narratives Beyond Binaries: Does narrative still rely on binary structures in a world that has moved beyond them (male/female; past/present; public/private)? The binary and nonbinary as modes of thinking; post-poststructuralism; holding theory accountable to…
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Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies (MLA 2023) in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agohttps://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Paper19560.html
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
This panel solicits papers from graduate students doing Asian American literary studies in pursuit of new horizons–whether innovative methodologies, frameworks, texts, or fields. Send 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2…[Read more] -
Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the ‘segno lieto’ in Dante’s Commedia in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]
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Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoA sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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