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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Chaucer on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 3 days agoThe 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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Alex Mueller deposited The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThis essay is part of a collection of open access articles on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The articles are written for first-time readers of Chaucer and are designed to supplement the teaching of the Canterbury Tales, particularly in university classrooms.
My contribution is focused on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, providing an…[Read more]
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Candace Barrington deposited Traveling Chaucer: Comparative Translation and Cosmopolitan Humanism in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThrough the comparative study of non-Anglophone translations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, we can achieve the progressive goals of Emily Apter’s “translational transnationalism” and Edward Said’s “cosmopolitan humanism.” Both translation and humanism were intrinsic to Chaucer’s initial composition of the Tales, and in turn, both shap…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee posted an update in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoNew Chaucer Society 2018 Congress Call for Papers is live: http://newchaucersociety.org/pages/entry/2018-congress
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited “Forward,” Backward, or Somewhere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoPaper given for the LLC Middle English Forum’s roundtable on “Campus Chaucer. ” See also separately uploaded PowerPoint slides (not strictly necessary; the bold in the text, however, refers to a change of slide). Contains many informational links. Accompanying PowerPoint: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6BW3B
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited Powerpoint for “‘Forward,’ Backward, or Somehwere in Between: Carrying Chaucer in Wisconsin” in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoPowerPoint to accompany paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GP71) given in #s280 at the 2017 MLA Convention.
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Lisa H. Cooper deposited The Poetics of Practicality in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis essay explores insistently practical medieval texts—works whose explicit goal is to assist their readers to make something in the world beyond the page (a book, a culinary dish, an ointment, an object) and asks if they can be said to have a poetics. Drawing on Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of practice as well as Gérard Gene…[Read more]
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William A. Quinn posted an update in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThanks to whoever nominated me to stand for election to the Chaucer Forum’s Executive Committee. My own research interests include the implications of recital, the history of verse form and and the history of reading. I hope to provide enthusiastic support for a diversity of approaches to all medieval literature. I am particularly concerned…[Read more]
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Allan Mitchell deposited Unbecoming Human in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoProposing an alternative phraseology of “unbecoming” to accent the risky, tentative, epigenetic processes of human development.
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Lucia Treanor deposited Palindromic Structure in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoDefinition of Palindromic Structure
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: U of West Georgia Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoHi all,
The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15. The full CFP is here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf
Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:
o English Manuscript Studies
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDisability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]
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Helen Fulton uploaded the file: Call for book proposals: New Century Chaucer to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoNew Century Chaucer is a book series launched by University of Wales Press. We are looking for editions of individual texts, monographs, and edited collections of essays on any aspect of Chaucer and his contemporaries. Send ideas and enquiries to Helen Fulton (helen.fulton@york.ac.uk) and see our Facebook page at:
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee uploaded the file: Call for Manuscripts: Boydell and Brewer's Chaucer Studies series to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoBoydell and Brewer is seeking book proposals for its venerable Chaucer Studies series. Monographs are particularly encouraged but volumes of essays will be included when appropriate. Send proposals and inquiries to Caroline Palmer, Editorial Director, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK cpalmer@boydell.co.uk.
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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