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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The International Committee’s Focus panel for the 2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference is “Memories”. Please see attachment for details.
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 2004-2023 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 11 months ago
An archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 2004-2023.
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 1980-2003 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 11 months ago
An archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 1980-2003.
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Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Greetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 5-8). At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia (Jan 4-7).
So we can ensure representation…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
LLC African American Forum
Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual confines of the slave narrative or sentimental novel. 250 word…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The (True) Lord of the Rings in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
The critic, as guide, is here in the penultimate of a four-part series on “Lord of the Rings,” suggested to be, if not Sarumon himself (Sarumon’s voice is used), certainly someone who could readily imagine him as someone who could have been presented in the text as a flat-out ally, if he himself wasn’t relegated to being the reader’s guardian and…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 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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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader’s Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Delineates how much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Fellowship of the Ring” is about preparing Frodo especially so that if caught out alone, he’d never dare venture a decent listen to anyone who might attempt to sway him to consider the due fate for the Ring, other than according to Gandalf’s specifications. Positions the text as one that bates the reader…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Alexander the Large in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Explores a particular passage of Anthony Burgess’s “Clockwork Orange,” illuminating how it shows the text draws our admiration for Alex.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Compares how “Treasure Island” and “Charlotte’s Web” demonstrate how protagonist avatars for ourselves establish they truly matter to “parents” who pretend to value them but whose true lack of interest in them as individuals can’t be mistaken. Argues for seeing stories as recognizing the problem of “not being seen” by parents, and as them as…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Explores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Explores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Greedy For Your Hurt in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Explores the ability of the narrator to be honest with the difficulties — not displace, repress, elide/evade concerns — they had in their mother-child relationship, in several works of literature, including Cocteau’s “Les Enfants Terribles,” Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women.” and Andrea Ashworth’s “Once in a House on Fire.”
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Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Drawing on research in developmental psychology, rhetorical narratology, and cultural history, as well as on digital data mining, this essay seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary and interpretive range of cognitive literary studies.
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic The Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur is now online! in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Announcement on behalf of Dr. Ute Dettmar:
The inaugural issue of the new Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society (GKJF)) is now online, It succeeds the print annual journal Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (1995-2015) in a fundamentally revised form. As…[Read more]
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