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2017 Top Ten
MLA members' most downloaded works from CORE last year
1. Geraldine Heng
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages
Article
Downloaded 589 times in 2017
2. Laura Green
Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Modernist Fictions of Identity
Article
Downloaded 529 times in 2017
3. Douglas E. Green
On "The Coddling of the American Mind"
Opinion piece
Downloaded 490 times in 2017
4. Marisa Verna
Étude sur le symbolisme
Translated book collection
Downloaded 453 times in 2017
5. Michael Bérubé
Why Teach Literature?
Conference paper
Downloaded 308 times in 2017
6. Cristina León Alfar
'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble
Article
Downloaded 221 times in 2017
7. Suzanne England
Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre
Article
Downloaded 215 times in 2017
8. Carl Gelderloos
Simply Reproducing Reality – Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography
Article
Downloaded 199 times in 2017
9. Roger Whitson
DTC 375: Languages, Text, and Technology
Syllabus
Downloaded 194 times in 2017
10. James Gifford
Introduction to Pied Piper of Lovers
Book chapter
Downloaded 179 times in 2017
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