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LLC Canadian

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    Graham Jensen started the topic Last chance! Send us your MLA 2024 proposals on CanLit and TV/film! in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    NOTE: There are just two days left before the March 15 deadline!

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

    This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity,…[Read more]

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    Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

    This panel invites proposals on the popularity of recent adaptations of Canadian literary texts for screen/TV/film. Issues may include: access, cachet, canonicity, “Canadianness,” pedagogy, and production from critics and…[Read more]

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    Eleanor R. Ty started the topic Nominate yourself to the Canadian Literature committee in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    We are currently seeking one new member for the Canadian Forum. Executive committees serve for five years and help choose the topics for the conference. Please send your nominations to Graham Jensen ghjensen@uvic.ca by Friday, Jan 20, 2023 at noon. Thank you.

     

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    Faye Hammill deposited Canadian Literature syllabus in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Syllabus for final-year undergraduate one-semester course on anglophone Canadian literature

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    Graham Jensen started the topic CFP: Working in Canadian Literary Archives (MLA 2023, San Francisco) in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the following guaranteed session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum:

    “Working in Canadian Literary Archives”

    Short papers on work in or about Canadian literary archives—issues, gaps, holdings, digitization, access, and how archives/archival objects intersect with notions or depictions of labour. P…[Read more]

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    Elizabeth Israel started the topic From Forum Chair Rob Zacharias: ALECC 2020 Online Conference in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    I am posting the following message on behalf of LLC Canadian’s executive committee chair, Rob Zacharias:

    Dear friends and colleagues,

    We are pleased to announce and invite participation in the upcoming July 8-22, 2020, online conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) on the theme Watershed,…[Read more]

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    Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy
    This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, considers the cultures and histories of resource extraction in Canada. We seek papers on Canadian and/or Indigenous literatures and environments. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

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    Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature
    This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum, considers the recent florescence of literature from and about Scarborough, ON. We seek papers discussing particular works related to Scarborough, as well as theoretical approaches. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020 Robert Zacharias, York…[Read more]

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    Nicholas Bradley started the topic CFP: Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island
    What are the possibilities for building alliances across lines of difference on Turtle Island? What are the challenges of intertwining decolonial struggles? We welcome papers, artistic, and pedagogical provocations on diasporic-Indigenous relations on Turtle Island.Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

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    Graham Jensen started the topic (CFP) Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.

    Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age
    McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020

    The past few years have demonstrated limitations of and problems with the concept of Canadian l…[Read more]

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    Graham Jensen started the topic (CFP) Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age</p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020</p>
    The past few years have d…[Read more]

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    Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    Abstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Soothing Satire in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    Explores Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” as almost a Gen Xer’s “version of John Updike’s Couples”; that is, as, a place where, like Updike’s book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike’s work, where — considering the time it was written in, the ’70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    Explores Bertram Brooker’s “Think of the Earth” from Norman Holland’s perspective of literature as a “place” where unsavory wishes can be satisfied, without alarming super-ego censors. Explores the character Tavistock as built to lure many readers into situating themselves within him, for conveying characteristics that define him as both a prodigy…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Other Crowd in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    A.M. Klein’s “Political Meeting” as problematic as a poem highlighting and delineating a dangerous orator’s power; as really more on which suggests he’s ensnared, enslaved, by the crowd’s expectations and demands of him to “lead” them into particular fervour.

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Leaving Home in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    Explores Elizabeth Daryush’s “Children of wealth in your warm nursery” as of a narrator visiting us to warn us about our possible ill-fate, if we don’t “escape..” The game for the reader is to decide if she’s to be trusted, or not.

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Poet as Physician in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    Daphne Marlatt’s “Healing” as a poem about re-cooperating from the infliction of a triggering, caustic word upon one’s mental composition, using efficacy, experience in knowing composure and competency, as a rebutting counter.

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Introductions and Initiations in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    Explores how Phyllis Webb’s “To Those Who Have Also Considered Suicide” is a poem which mischievously induces the reader to become one of the “friends” who undergo the “initiation” of suicide. The reader is encouraged to let go any grievance, however, in consideration of the poet’s successful demonstration of the initiation as involving genuine…[Read more]

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    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC CanadianCanadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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    Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Language and Culture of Quebec in the group Group logo of LLC CanadianLLC Canadian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago

    Detailed Syllabus and outline for a 7-week course in the history of the language and culture of Quebec.

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