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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone

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  • Profile picture of Amel Abbady

    Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 months ago

    Abstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.

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    Maria Helena Lima created the doc BLACKLINES ISSUE 2: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Black British Writing: Questions of Time/ Space in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 months ago

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    James Gifford deposited Durrell’s Delta and Dylan Thomas’ ‘Prologue to an Adventure’ in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    In 1939, Keidrych Rhys charged that Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” was reprinted “in Delta (Paris) without acknowledgement… without permission”; however, Ralph Maud contrarily argues “Durrell, as editor of Delta, asked Thomas for contributions and published something by him in all three issues” (123). Thomas’ letters support the latter…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]

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    Daniel Roger Schwarz replied to the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone via email on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Thanks Liz; Great topic—best, dan

    Dan Schwarz
    Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Literatures in English
    Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
    242 Goldwin Smith
    Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853
    607-273-5735 (Home); 607-255-9313 (Office); 607-255-6661 (Fax)
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    Web Page: h…[Read more]

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    Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Call for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter

    Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.

    This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Aarthi Vadde

    Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Novel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.  Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Aarthi Vadde

    Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Novel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.  Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Aarthi Vadde

    Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: A New Podcast that puts critics and novelists in conversation. in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Novel Dialogue is a new podcast, co-hosted by John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde, and available for free subscription from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.  Sponsored by the Society for Novel Studies and partnered with NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, we bring a literary critic and novelist into conversation to talk about how novels are made and what to…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Special issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.

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    Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    Italy was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Gregory Caraher

    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    This article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

    Review of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick

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    Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

    Bringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Accident in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

    ​This chapter explores some legal and literary ramifications of “accident” in British law and society from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. This period saw changes in common law and legislation relating to accidents, including the emergence of negligence as a distinct tort and statutory provisions for employer liabi…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Apprentice to Deception: L. P. Hartley and the Bildungsroman in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

    This essay argues that L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between (1953) fits into the critical tradition of the Bildungsroman in one specific sense: its attention to matters of deception. First, this plot of formation and development involves a necessary apprenticeship in deception: a moral training that has links with everyday practices of c…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

    Henrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]

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    Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu…[Read more]

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    Celia Marshik started the topic Call for papers: Special Issue of ELN, "Fashion's Borders" in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    I’m pleased to share a call for papers for a special issue of English Language Notes (April 2022 publication date). Kindly circulate within your networks. Thank you!

    This special issue of ELN takes up the complex relationship between clothing and place and seeks to examine the transcultural flow of commodities (specifically clothing and fas…[Read more]

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    Janine M. Utell started the topic Welcome to the Modernist Studies Association on the MLA Commons! in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophoneLLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Welcome to the MSA on the MLA Commons!  Here you’ll find updates from the Modernist Studies Association, calls for papers, and a place to network and connect.

    • Looking for news from the MSA Board?
    • Wanting to share a CFP or an event?
    • Got an idea you’d like to discuss with other scholars and writers in modernist studies?
    • Seeking out…

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