MLA Commons | TM Literary Criticism | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/ Activity feed for the group, TM Literary Criticism. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:08:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -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 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 -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 e50073a729e182336a88ef3e62e32a10 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847390/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:18:26 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f2237866c263e769b3e808b285d54a8 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847385/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:57:59 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b33c9c704322621eb557c97990ab4e4 Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-speculative-fiction-and-eternal-life/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:50:37 -0500 What is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b1f13a72e9ccb4b73f5987928444ac6 Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777282/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:28:07 -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 010c74bf0da923680243c0ff1ed8b102 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 TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769030/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:56:42 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9bc6a76b7eb821388eb68164a504a5b3 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755577/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:57:52 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7f6b1b8a22b64424bbf416c16ec4669 Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753049/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:28:59 -0400 Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]

]]> 0 1049995bd59f20bd00ad8c5a5ee1fb8e Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745163/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:06:12 -0400 The connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f3d123febd2cb622282fc78a3d2ca77 Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson's Lyrics in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745159/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:52:30 -0400 The argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb6e94ca2f50e7b1cb505d7f0b812394 Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-library-company-of-philadelphia-2021-innovation-award-24/ Fri, 07 May 2021 17:34:12 -0400 The Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.

Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]

]]> 0 2df18f60fa25bcb33cc2f60d54213e90 Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-library-company-of-philadelphia-2021-innovation-award/ Fri, 07 May 2021 17:17:13 -0400 The Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.

Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]

]]> 0 155e5c9180f9c9ea4e8630fc0480b191 Aarthi Vadde started the topic Novel Dialogue: Season 1 now complete! in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/novel-dialogue-season-1-now-complete/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:28:25 -0400 Novel Dialogue, a podcast sponsored by the Society of Novel Studies, has just completed its first season.  We bring critics and novelists together for fun and sophisticated conversations about novels – how they are made and what to make of them.

For a full list of episodes, please check out https://noveldialogue.org/

Or subscribe at Apple…[Read more]

]]> 0 15ea358f74fe165a0a215281a5b39403 Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1702149/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:56:44 -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 614f937ae14c769f9910fe5821fecbc3 Ellen Spolsky deposited The Gap between Fairness and Law: Hamlet and Equity from a Cognitive Perspective in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1695917/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:28:29 -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 e371058740faeb2d067a88613feabaa9 Ellen Spolsky deposited Cognitive Poetics in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1695723/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:29:49 -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 20deff5e4718c6172e1bf1eff7a417ba Daniel Williams deposited Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1693077/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:59:58 -0400 Review of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, by David Kurnick

]]> 0 2909b795d1c1fdaadfd483976cfdd60b Daniel Williams deposited Slow Fire: Serial Thinking and Hardy's Genres of Induction in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692812/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:51:36 -0400 This essay considers the use of “serial thinking”—an approach to representation and cognition that emphasizes repetition, enumeration, and aggregation—in the work of Thomas Hardy. Examining his first novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), it connects Hardy’s approaches to serial thinking with the discourse of Victorian logic (especially the work of J…[Read more]

]]> 0 72dc8bba54054385082802dccd05b0c6 Daniel Williams deposited Down the Slant towards the Eye: Hopkins and Ecological Perception in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692546/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:51:51 -0400 This essay reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry for its “ecological perception”: a perceptual modality involving the dynamic interaction between human bodies and environmental givens or potentialities. Linking Hopkins’s syncretic ideas about perception to the psychologist J. J. Gibson’s account of our sensitivity to environmental “affordan…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec242db1cad1625a4cc6636810d640b4 Daniel Williams deposited Apprentice to Deception: L. P. Hartley and the Bildungsroman in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692182/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:29:06 -0400 This essay argues that L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between (1953) fits into the critical tradition of the Bildungsroman in one specific sense: its attention to matters of deception. First, this plot of formation and development involves a necessary apprenticeship in deception: a moral training that has links with everyday practices of c…[Read more]

]]> 0 f94e796178be67fbce399e5768cf6b57 Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1688879/ Thu, 28 May 2020 04:06:44 -0400 a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies

]]> 0 e50f1bb79c8cd9fa9373fcfecd8aa6e9 Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino's Oulipian Clinamen in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687758/ Tue, 19 May 2020 03:55:40 -0400 The Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1d1275ff1140547f392ad5d8f2d6521 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687556/ Sat, 16 May 2020 16:31:31 -0400 This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf0ece7d7c95725cd17b7226effe0fa7 Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1686507/ Thu, 07 May 2020 03:59:05 -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 f40b0ad83911277c5a446d7e8dd82fc6 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685370/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:12:23 -0400 This essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – wit…[Read more]

]]> 0 f78e7ec0e1beb851036d6c22a0af54a6 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685367/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:05:12 -0400 The search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature’s historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay “La ‘letteratura mondiale'” by the eminent Italian philologist…[Read more]

]]> 0 4631a7f92d57e2a053883face1eabbc0 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685364/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:57:12 -0400 In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa63b3351fbe04ade503c60d1184a43a Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685361/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:49:23 -0400 In this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6c5d5bf58213dcc6e0691f6a146f5cb Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1677875/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 04:00:18 -0500 This essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian…[Read more]

]]> 0 0dda9f9325a1582bd865363acee87b7d cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675038/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:30:24 -0500 Call for Proposals

Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power

Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a9d8a6b91d5b81c4e3ffd75e186cb32 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited "'Nothing is Left to Tell' Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World" in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669406/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 03:51:55 -0500 In the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bf25579c489e7a30e37aea40525cbff Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's Thinking Literature across Continents in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1662804/ Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:58:57 -0400 This review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]

]]> 0 123baa23aadb7b632fbc517340d6f715 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Updated CFP for Routlesdge Lit and Class Companion (new passed peer edit stage) in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/updated-cfp-for-routlesdge-lit-and-class-companion-new-passed-peer-edit-stage/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:19:32 -0400 Dear Literary Criticism Group,

Just an update on our collection of essays, Literature and Class Companion in that series for Routledge.  We await word of acceptance, having passed the peer edit.

This is a time of silence and angst so just to let you all know we are hard at this intersectional approach and wishing you all a happy summer.Some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 80a02206e0d36a2ba1869ab6927716b0 Whit Frazier Peterson deposited The Afrofuturist Historical Novel in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643101/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:30:39 -0400 The recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays “Afrofuturism 2.0” (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones. However there has not yet been an aca…[Read more]

]]> 0 77fcba7edcd75355e040125ba9e9d789 Thomas Mazanec deposited Righting, Riting, and Rewriting the Book of Odes (Shijing): On "Filling out the MIssing Odes" by Shu Xi in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642850/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:31:31 -0400 A series of derivative verses from the late-third century has pride of place in one of the foundational collections of Chinese poetry. These verses, “Filling out the Missing Odes” by Shu Xi, can be found at the beginning of the lyric-poetry (shi 詩) section of the Wenxuan. This essay seeks to understand why such blatantly imitative pieces may have…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cac9c9b962b383e7fffdc70739883f5 Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-routledge-literary-handbook-lit-and-class-32/#post-1021166 Wed, 29 May 2019 04:31:23 -0400 We have passed the peer review stage so please consider writing an essay for this companion text.

]]> 0 c6c8bf5ce20a6f949e69827f33ac1ccc Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641104/ Wed, 29 May 2019 03:54:23 -0400 IMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.

]]> 0 74bb2c4004bab78c4c00471c27e5d2d5 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited "Mi Casa, Su Casa" in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633619/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:58:49 -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 41c5e7c0402dcd82cbc94df3f2359b4f Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632748/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 04:04:05 -0500 A talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book

]]> 0 dac167a3b7a16c8348048f0b05173fa0 Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631570/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 04:08:07 -0500 What is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?

]]> 0 b1a5575ce0fcf76189e13003ce993cbe Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631568/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 03:52:40 -0500 How might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?

]]> 0 7dc4189ca81e911a14fcbcfb2400f7e4 Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631491/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 03:55:07 -0500 How and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]

]]> 0 174eca72fb4d8651449eaaed2df4e5bf Kristin Bluemel deposited Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628724/ Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:29:14 -0500 This is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4cfc8085d21641023cce0eda35f0a67 Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children's Literature, History in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628420/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:07:56 -0500 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.

]]> 0 295ad360b8f4dc6af3b823d2b560cf96 Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-gothic-terror-gothic-horror-lewis-university-july-30-august-2-2019-2/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 20:36:43 -0500 Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]

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