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LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian

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  • Profile picture of Leigh A. Neithardt

    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianLLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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    Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianLLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago

    A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

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    Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianLLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

    Buon giorno a tutt*,

    Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

    I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

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    Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianLLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    Version (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.

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    Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianLLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    Version (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.

  • Profile picture of Carol Chiodo

    Carol Chiodo started the topic Calls for papers in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianSeventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    MLA 2019 – deadline March 15, 2018
    Please consider submitting an abstract for one of two sessions proposed by the Dante Society of America for the next Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Chicago on Jan. 3-6, 2019.
    The calls for papers are below. Abstracts and short bios are requested by March 15, 2018. Please
    note that all…[Read more]

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    Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016 in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianSeventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago

    NOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES

     

    Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.

    Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.

     

    <u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.

     

    FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]

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    Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 – The Politics of Public Celebrations in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianSeventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    The Politics of Public Celebrations: This session would call for an exploration of the uses to which festive culture lent itself in 17th, 18th and 19th-century Italy. Lavish public celebrations were often meant to project the power of local rulers to the general public and served to underline or enforce ideas of universal order and transcendental…[Read more]

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    Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 – Public Opinion, Literary Successes and Failures in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianSeventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    Public Opinion, Literary Successes and Failures: “Public opinion is the most powerful instrument in every country for influencing the actions of the great” (Ugo Foscolo, “The Women of Italy,” 1826). This panel will investigate the sway of public opinion on the creation, production and reception of Italian literature. Was public opinion the most…[Read more]

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    Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 – Exoticisms and Their Italian Publics in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianSeventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    Exoticisms and Their Italian Publics:   Often when Italy is part of the exoticism equation, Italians sit front and center as the exotic object of the subject-other’s (British, French, aristocratic, “enlightened”) gaze. This panel takes a different angle — it seeks to explore the various currents of 17th-18th-and 19th century exoticism as…[Read more]

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    Rachel A. Walsh started the topic CFP Austin MLA 2016 – Emotions in Ink in the discussion Group logo of LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century ItalianSeventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    Emotions in Ink: Sentiment, affection, passion, feelings… emotions: in literature, philosophy, religion, the arts, medicine. How were emotions rendered public through writings? How were displays of public emotions portrayed? Are emotions and writings about them gendered? We welcome papers that address these questions and others exploring the ro…[Read more]

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