MLA Commons | TC Cognitive and Affect Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/ Activity feed for the group, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bec805cbd0f060d1e675eaad436c676d Marco Caracciolo started the topic 2027 MLA CfP: Gut Cognition (Cognitive and Affect Studies forum) in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-cfp-gut-cognition-cognitive-and-affect-studies-forum/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:51:02 -0500 Gut Cognition in Literature
This non-guaranteed session explores interoceptive feelings in literature. How do they interact with literary forms? How do they reflect historical and cultural variations in bodily experience?

Please submit a 200-word abstract and a brief bio to Marco Caracciolo, Ghent U (marco.caracciolo@ugent.be)

Submission…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e0603b41731d0a83737c5a05a3d66cb Haiyan Lee started the topic 2027 MLA Panel CFP: Elements of Surprise in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/2027-mla-panel-cfp-elements-of-surprise/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:57:07 -0500 <div><b data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Elements of Surprise</b></div>
<div>2027 MLA Convention, January 7-10, Los Angeles</div>
<div>Co-sponsored by TC Cognitive and Affect Studies and LSL Linguistics and Literature</div>
<div>Co-organizers: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Vera Tobin; presider: Haiyan Lee</div>
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<div>We invite contributions…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d86f57405a6bb40518a3e79babc78f4 Aili Pettersson Peeker started the topic Seeking Support for MLA Forum Proposal on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/seeking-support-for-mla-forum-proposal-on-trauma-informed-pedagogy/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:32:01 -0500 Dear all,

I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to add your name in support of a new MLA forum proposal, “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy.” This proposed forum offers a space for scholarship and dialogue on how trauma (personal, historical, and structural) shapes teaching, learning, and literary study. It complements existing MLA forums but…[Read more]

]]> 0 582e8fa64344f6db0af4d8591fd64d15 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job posting, please distribute in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-distribute/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:57:13 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks!

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in
Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of
literatures in English working in Cognitive Humanities and/or…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a09aaf3e76e8fa52f9363b77dab854a Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share-3/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:52:16 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please distribute the attached job posting. Thanks!

Warm regards,

Isabel

]]> 0 9f7e96dce1cbbd2d3eb96ebdace552c6 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share-2/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:48:52 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks! Warm regards, Isabel

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of literatures in English working in Cognitive…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc43f6a775bdb6c59e469ad0342db183 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Job Posting, please share in the forum TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/job-posting-please-share/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:45:57 -0400 Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thank you! Warm regards, Isabel

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of literatures in English working in…[Read more]

]]> 0 808e25e5cd20d3b0cbdbcb0a8866f80c Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858168/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:16:50 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

]]> 0 f18e54bb10e5233eeb760a51a3df54e2 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857509/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:25:37 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

]]> 0 01a2d4d628ceae7efd3f1dd90f2ad5fc Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856308/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:25:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 54853bc2059971bb2946f42dec67420b Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP MLA 2024: Vital Signs: Thinking and Feeling Sustenance and Survival in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-vital-signs-thinking-and-feeling-sustenance-and-survival/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:50:46 -0500 The Cognitive and Affect Studies forum invites papers that discuss vital signs in literature for a guaranteed session at the 2024 MLA. Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to mhulstyn@stanford.edu by 15 March.

]]> 0 51705f669f68056b0637342b22b2fa4b Ellen Spolsky replied to the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/#post-1032293 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:27:17 -0500 Some of you may also be interested in the *on line* Special Session
629 *Cognition,
Law, and Literature *Sunday 8 January 10:15 AM-11:30 AM

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14222

Presider
– SSimon Stern
<https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Person/5709&gt;
– U of Toronto

Presentations…[Read more]

]]> 0 8463c76ee9ef9c6cf821c84ed64928ba Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:16 -0500 All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

]]> 0 8463c76ee9ef9c6cf821c84ed64928ba Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Nominate Forum Executive Committee Member in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:16 -0500 All: if you would like to suggest yourself or another person as a forum executive committee member, there is still time to do so (and I do encourage you to do so!) Please send an email directly to me, oldfather@ulm.edu , by the end of this week (Friday).

]]> 0 ba24495e929b8afceb32728660182a1d Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023-2/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:44:16 -0500 I hope everyone will attend our forum’s sponsored sessions this year at MLA2023! Here is a convenient link to all three in the convention program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Symposium/2149

We have three very different sessions this year. First up, on Thursday, is a face-to-face session exploring neurodiverse modes of literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ba08479451ec734d513aad654ba108b Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic Cognitive and Affect Studies-sponsored Sessions at MLA2023 in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-and-affect-studies-sponsored-sessions-at-mla2023/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:34:31 -0500 I hope our forum members will consider attending our sponsored sessions at this year’s MLA convention, and help out our work by letting others who will be in attendance know about them!

* Attention, Please! Thu 5:15-6:30, Moscone West – this face to face session examines attention from neurodiverse perspectives, including neuroqueer, ADHD, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 20f72c2c964dfb37ecc517b22b55f9be Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-51/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:27:46 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 f79a12572b2a0249290e33c774a8567a Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777281/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:26:27 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 d77f3c8355c2c3ff0e57246f83ad2a6a Lisa Zunshine started the topic "Cognitive" sessions at the MLA! (527, 645) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cognitive-sessions-at-the-mla-527-645/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:53:54 -0500 Don’t miss these two online sessions on cognitive literary theory! Session “Sadness” (527, Saturday, January 8) features papers by Haiyan Lee and Lisa Zunshine, while “Life-Writing and Cognition” (645, Sunday, January 9) features papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 0 aa640e807013696f8321603d8c1901ce Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750927/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:32:10 -0400 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a72c70cc5146296b4424ce562f32003 Ricardo Jose Castro started the topic CFP: Cognitive Approaches to Latin American / Iberian Cultural Productions in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-cognitive-approaches-to-latin-american-iberian-cultural-productions/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:09:40 -0500 The Graduate Student Caucus, Allied MLA Organization, is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on Cognitive Approaches to Comtemporary Latin American & Iberian Cultural Productions, at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.

Panel focuses on cognitive approaches to literatures/cultures of Iberia/Latin America. Topics may include, but not…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ce2a5bad0c1d0ec0da30f5072553515 Elizabeth Oldfather started the topic CPF: Imagining Time (MLA 2022) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cpf-imagining-time-mla-2022/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:01:11 -0500 Imagining Time
Seeking work on the psychology of time in reading: how writers and readers make & modulate virtual experiences of time; tempo, cadence, duration, synchronicity; cognitive approaches particularly welcome. 300-word abstract and CV. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021 Elizabeth Oldfather, U of Louisiana, Monroe…[Read more]

]]> 0 80db23dbc4dafbfa298fe73a23924e8d Michaela Hulstyn started the topic CFP: The Art of Unselfing (MLA 2022) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-the-art-of-unselfing-mla-2022/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:32:50 -0500 The Cognitive and Affect Studies and Philosophy and Literature forums invite papers that engage the philosophy, cognition, or emotions of unselfing in literature and/or art for the 2022 MLA meeting. Collaborative, non-guaranteed session. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March to mhulstyn@fsu.edu.

]]> 0 f2501471ee25a4ad166ebc4c37ac9f69 Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Our Aesthetic Contexts" (MLA 2022) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-our-aesthetic-contexts-mla-2022/ Sat, 23 Jan 2021 02:38:01 -0500 The MLA Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Our Aesthetic Contexts” at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC. We invite papers on how the situational, relational, and mediated contexts in which audiences encounter the arts (including fiction, poetry, theater, film, visual art, music, and dan…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2b0c1f120db622e008e54f5a9ff735b Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713769/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:05:58 -0400 With the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.

]]> 0 ff04866b6cf2f8378359c3dba79024d1 Ellen Spolsky deposited An Embodied View of Misunderstanding in Macbeth in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713767/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:00:00 -0400 The article discusses the relationship among philosophical and cognitive theories of understanding intentionality, pointing to particular strengths and weaknesses which bear on their usefulness to literary studies. My claim is that their gaps and their complementarity can be seen with particular clarity when they are used to describe interpretive…[Read more]

]]> 0 c620e212f7e2b889200c7acf73de0934 Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713620/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:52:46 -0400 This is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]

]]> 0 76e448f85db857672fe9ba4a77452197 Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705595/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:51:47 -0400 Previous studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]

]]> 0 eef8394c03dfd3a8767040f5d4ce087a Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1702145/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:50:48 -0400 This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]

]]> 0 15192ecaaf25f43fbce8b1638fd310c2 Ellen Spolsky deposited The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1695915/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:25:21 -0400 This essay explores the gap between the abstract ideal of fairness and the bodily materiality of retribution. My aim is to suggest how some current cognitive science affords a helpful way of talking about the breaks between abstractions, or thoughts of fairness, and the judgments and punishments produced by actual legal systems. It is remarkably…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bc90204827c8169ccf960d527584849 Ellen Spolsky deposited Cognitive Poetics in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1695721/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:26:47 -0400 In her introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, Lisa Zunshine, scholar in the field and its best historian, describes cognitive literary critics as working “not toward consilience with science but toward a richer engagement with a variety of theoretical paradigms in literary and cultural studies” (2015). Scholars from m…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7fc841caeef7234406a0397959e1dea Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1688877/ Thu, 28 May 2020 03:58:12 -0400 a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies

]]> 0 e8c6b3bbb26a347397f28a45f02b667b Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1686505/ Thu, 07 May 2020 03:53:02 -0400 Would you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6beccaa664dc1bb72642ce119f59103 Suzanne Keen started the topic European graduate study opportunities: Empirical Study of Literature Network in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/european-graduate-study-opportunities-empirical-study-of-literature-network/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:56:19 -0400 https://www.elitnetwork.eu/

]]> 0 0ab2adf771c440d23895233e75ed8124 Elaine Auyoung started the topic CFP: "Being Present to the Arts" (MLA 2021) in the discussion TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cognitive-and-affect-studies/forum/topic/cfp-being-present-to-the-arts-mla-2021/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:48:29 -0500 The Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies is pleased to sponsor a guaranteed session on “Being Present to the Arts” at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto. We invite papers that examine the experience (psychological, physical, social, affective) of attending to, being absorbed by, or participating in the creation of music, dance, poetry, painting,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7f6ef8fb461767c233cd7a396d4b368 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636202/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 04:00:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 eb71870c1e06838048a6f57f2600f974 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader's Guide to the Two Towers in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635888/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:05:48 -0400 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]

]]> 0 54efcd7c38ac018bacb4e33b5601bf18 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader's Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635747/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 03:58:12 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bcb6b0ca140952a33e8a6f371d147be3 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634730/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:37:45 -0400 Explores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b9b7cf5899bda7d01cb2985c7e4c1a2 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634366/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:13:59 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a011c4705bad183aa12663b8ab9869de Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Maintaining the Peace in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634357/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:54:22 -0500 Explores Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” as a space-world where anxious Victorians might place the perhaps exciting but also anxiety-producing New to subsume its affect of disequilibrium within the sturdy, assured and predictable.

]]> 0 df1a04fe0eadde9dcb1b5f9f286c886a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634064/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:07:40 -0500 Explores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d954fa110f9ee396323da37f6df6da5 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634062/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:02:50 -0500 Explores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e99e250d0909b60eb0b0fe34174a9079 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Splendid Isolation and Cruel Returns in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634057/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:51:06 -0500 Challenges Robinson Crusoe’s ability, in “Robinson Crusoe,” to be honest with himself about how much he was actually glad Fortune stepped into remove him out of his father’s grasp. And, as well, Gulliver’s presumption, In “Gulliver’s Travels,” that he would really have preferred Fortune had not stepped in and removed him from endless more days in…[Read more]

]]> 0 d14f04a20331a3adea24978857fdb9b5 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited "Mi Casa, Su Casa" in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633617/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:54:25 -0500 Explores Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” as if it were experienced by many viewers of a particular type — SCM’s: suburban, collegiate young men — as a feeling out of how they might contrive themselves so that their future development would not place them as identifiable as losers by he-men pulp figures they’d learned early represent…[Read more]

]]> 0 a51876ea4340bf30174bf161fe35f8b7 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633387/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 03:58:38 -0500 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]

]]> 0 53e4de92095ad63aac23ad8565978c9d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633310/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 04:00:34 -0500 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]

]]> 0 2aef40b9a8e59c9d84f54f7a739268a8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633309/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:59:30 -0500 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]

]]> 0 895b12ea2df8f54f19b395ae0a471e22 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Leaving Home in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633182/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 03:55:40 -0500 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.

]]> 0 8575820ab310d7dab59408f98a4c6d0a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Poet as Physician in the group TC Cognitive and Affect Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633073/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 04:04:25 -0500 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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