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CLCS Classical and Modern

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  • Profile picture of Brian Gregory Caraher

    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    This commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Lie about everything under the sun in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Short essay exploring how Plato, in “the Republic,” argues that the only ones who can ensure poets see Justice, “see the light,” are philosophers.

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    Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Socrates and his God in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Exploration of why Socrates “follows” his god, Apollo, in “the Apology.” Three possibilities are considered: compelled to; trying to enable goodness; self-interest.

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    Dennis Looney deposited From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    A course (MA level) I taught at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, the research for which culminated in my book Freedom Readers (Notre Dame 2011).

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    Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    Version (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.

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    Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    Version (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.

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    yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago

    Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

    Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
    Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture

    Co-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

  • Profile picture of Carol Zuses

    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernClassical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 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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    Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago

    a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies

  • Profile picture of Hania A.M. Nashef

    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago’s Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago

    Although Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]

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    Jessica Winston started the topic Classics Book Wins Teaching Literature Book Award 2015 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernClassical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago

    The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.

    The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]

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    Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernClassical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago

    Dear colleagues,

    I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

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    Yopie Prins started the topic Respond to our 2014 MLA Panel: "Classical Translation for Vulnerable Times" in the forum Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernClassical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago

    The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in Classical Studies and Modern Literature invites you to our annual MLA panel at noon on Saturday, January 11, 2014, featuring two eminent classical translators:

    CLASSICAL TRANSLATION FOR VULNERABLE TIMES:  HOMER’S ILIAD AND VERGIL’S AENEID

    Session 527: 12-1:15 pm, January 11, 2014
    Sheraton…[Read more]

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    Yopie Prins posted an update in the group Group logo of CLCS Classical and ModernCLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago

    The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in Classical Studies and Modern Literature invites you to our annual MLA panel at noon on Saturday, January 11, 2014, featuring two eminent classical translators:

    CLASSICAL TRANSLATION FOR VULNERABLE TIMES:
    HOMER’S ILIAD AND VERGIL’S AENEID

    Session 527: 12-1:15 pm, January 11, 2014
    Sheraton I…[Read more]

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      Betsy Dahms replied 8 years, 7 months ago

      Call 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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