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Argues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 day, 21 hours agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 day, 21 hours agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 1 day, 21 hours agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher’s Merger in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 1 day, 21 hours agoExplores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Explores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Repurposing Chaucer” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 days, 3 hours agoWhat are/should be Chaucerian scholarship’s ethical commitments? What is/could be its relation to Chaucerian adaptations in various media? Gender, sexuality, race, and class; politics of Chaucer scholarship and amateur or creative Chauceriana. 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations by March 15 to Catherine Sanok (sanok@umich.edu) and C…[Read more]
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Kristina Reardon replied to the topic How 2 Write 4 the Future, a 5 Star Guide in the discussion Submitted abstracts on MLA Commons 2 days, 7 hours ago
David,
I so appreciate the difficultly of teaching comic texts in the classroom. The first time I tried to teach anything funny I pulled my favorite texts from the 1920s–and my class absolutely did not understand what was funny, <i>and </i>they resisted discussing even the simplest details of plot and character because they lacked the…[Read more]
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Beverly Hogue started the topic Teaching 21st Century Students to Read the Racial Humor of the 19th Century in the discussion Submitted abstracts on MLA Commons 2 days, 7 hours ago
Raucous comedy and relentless parody did perhaps as much or more than violence and the Ku Klux Klan to end Reconstruction and set the stage for Plessy v. Ferguson and the Jim Crow era. This essay discusses the use of two Uncle Remus Tales to introduce students to the literary caricatures of African Americans that presented them in an arrested…[Read more]
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Beverly Hogue started the topic A Focus on the Funny: Close Reading through Parody in the discussion Submitted abstracts on MLA Commons 2 days, 10 hours ago
Learning to read through and with comic texts is not just a rhetorical exercise in understanding humor; it is also a powerful way to teach close reading in an introduction to literature course. Literature instructors often note that students struggle to choose meaningful details to analyze in their papers about literature—and when they do find us…[Read more]
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Beverly Hogue started the topic How 2 Write 4 the Future, a 5 Star Guide in the discussion Submitted abstracts on MLA Commons 2 days, 11 hours ago
Teaching from comic texts can be an unfunny experience because there is very little universal humor. Humor ages and, as we know, changes of cultural expectation make teaching from it fraught.
I write from experience. I could play a tape of the half hour I spent on public radio being interviewed on the history of British humor, so I felt somewhat…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic CFP MLA 2020JOINT SESSION– COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA FORUM AND GLOBAL HISPANOPHON in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 3 days, 3 hours agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Christine Fernandez‘s profile was updated on MLA Commons 3 days, 6 hours ago
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Thomas Oliver Beebee created the event Materiality, Infrastructure, and Circulation in Comparative and World Literature. The Eighth Sino-American Comparative and World Literature Symposium Sept. 26-28 2019, Penn State University, University Park, PA in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic. on MLA Commons 3 days, 10 hours ago
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Thomas Oliver Beebee created the event Materiality, Infrastructure, and Circulation in Comparative and World Literature. The Eighth Sino-American Comparative and World Literature Symposium Sept. 26-28 2019, Penn State University, University Park, PA in the groups LLC East Asian, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic. on MLA Commons 3 days, 10 hours ago
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Periodizing Race” (LLC Chaucer & Shakespeare Forums) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 days, 20 hours agoWhat can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Chaucer's Walls” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 days, 21 hours agoWhat makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Issue of Decimononica in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 days, 22 hours agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of issue 16.1 (Winter 2019) of Decimonónica, Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Essays can be accessed and downloaded for free at http://www.decimononica.org.
Sincerely,
Luis Alvarez-Castro
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Eric Calderwood started the topic CFP: Reel Iberia (March 27-28, 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 days, 3 hours agoDear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:
I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García. The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history. We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 days, 5 hours agoMLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs
Having a hard time keeping track of the Southeast Asia-focused CFPs for MLA 2020? See the attached PDF for both the short and long descriptions of these four exciting CFPs! Please feel free to share widely and submit your own abstracts!
Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections:…[Read more]
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