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TM Literary and Cultural Theory

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  • Profile picture of Amel Abbady

    Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]

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    Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    Call for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.

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    Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    Call for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.

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    Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    This essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]

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    Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]

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    Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

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    The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more]

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    Dustin Friedman deposited E.M. Forster, the Clapham Sect, and the Secular Public Sphere in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago

    Critics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Gloria Lee McMillan

    Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Our text

    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

    . . . is now on its way to print. Due out in Jul-Aug.  It is dedicated to Aaron Barlow (essay contributor) and my mother, who both died in January 2021.

    The editor used my illustration of 1890s London’s East End (although our text is global, we did have some essays of this place s and period.

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    Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    In an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]

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    Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]

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    Dorothy Tsuruta deposited Diversity–To Be Or Not to Be–That is the Reality in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Article My reply to Jacob Sanders’ (Communication Associate of WalletHub 818 18th Street NW Suite 1020 Washington ,DC 20005) “Media Inquiry on “Most & Least Diverse States in America”

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    Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

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    Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    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]

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    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]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

    Review of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

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

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    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]

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    Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]

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    Steven Swarbrick deposited In Anthropocene Air: Deleuze’s Encounter with Shakespeare in the group Group logo of TM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    A reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.

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