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Annelle Curulla started the topic Voting for Forum Executive Committee and Nomination Process (LLC 18th-C. French) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoPlease do not forget to vote for the next delegate (executive committee member) for the LLC 18th-Century French forum.
Our two candidates this year are Yann ROBERT and Tracy RUTLER. The deadline is very close: December 10. Here is the link: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections
The Executive Committee is seeking nomination proposals…[Read more]
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Masano Yamashita started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 3 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: SEFCS Panel 1 : Diversities, Differences, in the discussion
Eighteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoSEFCS Panel 1 : Proposal for SECFS/ASECS 2019:
Diversities, Differences, and Dilemmas
Historically, writers, social critics, artists, poets and philosophers are often on the margins of society working from the position of observer. Although their methods and vocabulary often seem to push opposing agendas, one thing that modern day ph…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: SECFS Panel 2: Analogy/Analogie in the discussion
Eighteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoSECFS Panel 2:
Analogy/Analogie
Universal, discursive, or instrumental, “analogy” took many forms during the Enlightenment. While defending the use of analogical reasoning, Dumarsais deplored the lack of rigor in many of its applications. In some instances, the trope seduces, or expands the cognitive abilities of the understanding; in others, it…[Read more]
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Glenn Roe deposited A Sheep in Wolff’s Clothing: Émilie du Châtelet and the Encyclopédie in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis article explores the use of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique as both an acknowledged and unacknowledged source for the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert, and argues for Du Châtelet’s inclusion as a full participant in the philosophical conversations the Encyclopédie enacts. Widely considered a minor voice who entered the…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Manuscript of Claude Dupin’s Commentary on Montesquieu’s ‘Esprit des lois’ in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoClaude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’ in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author; and Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes, published before 1755 and also suppressed.…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu’s “Esprit des lois” in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoMontesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]
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