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Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 5 days 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]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks 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
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks 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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Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 12 months ago
Despite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
The Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Nicole Rizzuto started the topic Candidacy Statement Executive Committee 20th and 21st C English and Anglophone in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
My interest in serving on the Executive Committee for Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English and Anglophone Literatures stems from my ongoing research within these fields and from my commitment to addressing the changing structure of the profession and its effects on knowledge production and scholarly activity. I take the current ideological…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
This paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Modernism (Syllabus) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Introduction to the literary theory, form, and style of Modernism, a literary movement that dominated the first half of the 20th century and continues to exert its influence over literature today, which, tellingly, is described by the label post-Modernism.
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James Gifford deposited Postcolonial Literature (Syllabus) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what happens in the age of globalization that follows after an age of nationalism. When capital migrates, and labour follows, whence culture?…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Postcolonial Literature (Study Guide) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what happens in the age of globalization that follows after an age of nationalism. When capital migrates, and labour follows, whence culture?…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Full collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Argues that J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is an adventure in reverse, an “argument” for “your” regression. Rather than play with your ability to maybe succeed in threatening environments, it confirms your worst suspicions about yourself, lending you in mood to cling to others in a master-slave relationship, so long as they’ll agree to…[Read more]
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