MLA Commons | TC Philosophy and Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/ Activity feed for the group, TC Philosophy and Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:45:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 – October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes’ formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> 0 acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 – October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

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…[Read more]

]]> 0 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 – October 2, 2025

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 ded…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d12671e6dbd2e3ec96da6e4e03152e Ian Balfour started the topic Self-nomination for this committee in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nomination-for-this-committee/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:01 -0500 <div>

The Philosophy and Literature Forum Executive Committee solicits self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, starting in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly e…[Read more]

]]> 0 49a34afa92822a05df006168e57ae42c Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889767/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:02:18 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 1027fdb9a09a284718242aa9978c8c26 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889378/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:47 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 8207cd29ddd7fbcf5f8a30183de6c575 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888751/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:01:07 -0400 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 122c371ef70ff9126ebe49b97e65f8dc Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887843/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:02:13 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b536600b6f17de30dfd92188cf3539e Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887554/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:01:31 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b6f994ac008bdf06a3edab3bb11295b Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886476/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:03:56 -0400 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 a5d6ca3e69e217f9585a9441415aa667 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876760/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:02:28 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce’s pragmatist method and Hegel’s dialectics

]]> 0 656172e172d5381ea81fb674543c5049 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-angela-carters-adaptations-of-the-ashputtle-story-2/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:21:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b5b85e5dccc3a05c852b8f33b2cbe4f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864249/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:02:13 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 4e4bac3cef040facb17a850eb066033f Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863982/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:03:14 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b874d6ae5994634051346d2d8e09a415 Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/rhythm-speed-path-spatiotemporal-experiences-in-narrative-poetry-and-drama-2/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:03:03 -0500 Dear colleagues,

we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.

The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).

This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]

]]> 0 74698138c1f4df19ba60c728affafaf5 Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830070/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:26:35 -0500 The forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]

]]> 0 c18513bf2d8fea52f85d7c4fd0fba1fa Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829950/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:34:33 -0500 There is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d2667e1bc38f5b4869b47c58777ea18 Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829947/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:27:00 -0500 In the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]

]]> 0 22debf9b39f65b3920d3b1de618e7e06 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817370/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 03:53:38 -0400 In Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]

]]> 0 6333cbc19dbfc19445be3c864dfbbd2e Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe's Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-musical-responses-to-goethes-works-asecs-st-louis-march-9-11-2023/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:19:37 -0400 Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’m a disabled independent scholar with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote diversity in German Studies, insofar as…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfa659d030be23605e863e1e681f3b24 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788303/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:50:01 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 279af60531cc161a89853ea2c115f424 Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1781466/ Thu, 12 May 2022 03:49:09 -0400 In this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]

]]> 0 4db2f4dbe2107d162cab4c9c5e23637b Stephen E. Lewis deposited "Philosopher d'une manière 'mariale': Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon" in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774230/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:48:43 -0500 A review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).

]]> 0 9a2acab412d474292fc41783faafa34a Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the 'segno lieto' in Dante's Commedia in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1772158/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:31:46 -0500 This essay explores Dante Alighieri’s notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]

]]> 0 b888b2998dac70bd4f3f64e269da5490 Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1772155/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:26:06 -0500 This chapter examines the plight of Fra’ Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra’ Alberigo’s individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante’s unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea0e346705fe6d8a31b46772bb65c2a6 Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769036/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:11:21 -0500 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]

]]> 0 e01662ea183130b79448834562d75aa4 Magdalena Ostas deposited Thinking with Austen: Literature, Philosophy, and Anne Elliot's Inner World in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747765/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:51:03 -0400 This essay discusses pedagogical approaches to teaching Austen’s Persuasion as a novel situated at the intersection of literature and philosophy. It focuses on how Persuasion takes up, talks back to, and helps illuminate classic philosophical questions about personhood, sociality, ethics, consciousness, and the space of inner life. It discusses c…[Read more]

]]> 0 945a035a828488a2aaa6f289af293255 Tekla Babyak started the topic Disability accommodations for authors in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/disability-accommodations-for-authors/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 22:21:05 -0400 I’m an MLA member who works on intersections between 19th-century literature, philosophy, and music. I’m reaching out to this group with a question: do you know of any academic presses that are willing to make accommodations for disabled authors?

My situation is that I’m a disabled independent scholar (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014) who has…[Read more]

]]> 0 acf7daa59c570009fec177f5b03f4cd1 Laurie Ringer deposited Poetry Study Guide: “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747482/ Sat, 24 Jul 2021 02:29:02 -0400 A literary analysis and summary of John Burnside’s poem “The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652” (2,570 words)

]]> 0 aeaadbabdf61d8d00c98f824cf8bf9b1 Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746897/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:00:30 -0400 This essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6512ea4b7a9e068b955ccf46319066f Dustin Friedman deposited Paterian Cosmopolitanism: Euphuism, Negativity, and Genre in Marius the Epicurean in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746420/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:13:19 -0400 In this essay, I argue that Walter Pater’s description of “Euphuism” in Marius the Epicurean (1885) relies upon the insights of idealist philosophy in order to articulate a theory of what Rebecca Walkowitz calls “cosmopolitan style.” Specifically, Pater draws upon a disparate number of cultural discourses in his articulation of Euphuism while…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebc34fb1b2f4f90af42d912c26d30d89 Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745162/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:02:34 -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 4e2e8f77e912bec23cc9c199d35d7857 Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson's Lyrics in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745158/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:48:43 -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 8a8d167648d248f8bf006bb22864932a Magdalena Ostas deposited The Aesthetics of Absorption in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745119/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:23:38 -0400 Michael Fried has returned to the distinction between “absorption” and “theatricality” in all of his art-historical criticism since he first introduced the dyad in 1980. This essay argues that the term “absorption” is rich with a philosophical significance that echoes central concerns long at play in philosophy’s thinking about the status of art…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ec3784f612bff6bc5dbbe67c0d582a8 Ari Borrell deposited Criticisms of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Learning of the Heart-Mind (in Zhu Xi: Selected Wrtings) in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1681989/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:27:21 -0400 Abstract and Keywords
Part of this chapter deals with Zhu Xi’s critique of Buddhism and Daoism: his distinction of the neo-Confucian concept of pattern-principle and virtuous governance from seemingly similar Buddhist and Daoist ideas, his concern with what he saw as both schools’ lack of social and political engagement and their rejection of eth…[Read more]

]]> 0 88d43313b6bd9ea75d0453d1f440de20 Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669817/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:30:05 -0500 The New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1eb59828e1f55f51132f6062a7ed3c57 Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1639492/ Fri, 03 May 2019 03:53:15 -0400 We are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f9173e095f9775a552812ea71e0bc60 Marisa Verna deposited “Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d'autore. Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti, in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1630170/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 03:59:15 -0500 This thematic session of the journal is devoted to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of…[Read more]

]]> 0 027c40f2abc28ab5dd461f77feb41da0 Steven J. Meyer deposited Re. 2018 election for MLA executive committee of TC Philosophy and Literature Forum [closes Monday Dec 10] in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625297/ Sun, 09 Dec 2018 03:48:43 -0500 Philosophical interests of Steven Meyer, Washington University in St. Louis, candidate for 2018 election

]]> 0 8e534811f27e103a431e47f868d3a78a Marisa Verna deposited Review of Anne Simon, Trafics de Proust. Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Deleuze, Barthes in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625270/ Sat, 08 Dec 2018 04:12:57 -0500 Review of the recent book of Anne Simon, about Proust and / with philosophers

]]> 0 622bb7a64104f2af8bf4406ecda3cf3d Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621951/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:33:54 -0400 Late medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]

]]> 0 a600a97e048da2ffc093a243d3ef5f87 Stephen E. Lewis deposited Seeing, or Seeing Oneself Seen: Nicholas of Cusa’s Contribution in De visione Dei in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621095/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:15:43 -0400 Nicholas of Cusa’s _De visione Dei sive de Icona_ (1453), in addition to its contribution to the question of the vision of God, engages with numerous debates concerning visibility in general, and thus addresses the dimensions of phenomenality–namely, questions concerning the icon as a type of phenomenon, the reversal of vision into a…[Read more]

]]> 0 346bd5b705a767fbfb788b0930e05bd8 Stephen E. Lewis deposited Seeing, or Seeing Oneself Seen: Nicholas of Cusa’s Contribution in De visione Dei in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621084/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:49:46 -0400 Nicholas of Cusa’s _De visione Dei sive de Icona_ (1453), in addition to its contribution to the question of the vision of God, engages with numerous debates concerning visibility in general, and thus addresses the dimensions of phenomenality–namely, questions concerning the icon as a type of phenomenon, the reversal of vision into a…[Read more]

]]> 0 032975129d3de321831a2394b5863d53 yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619130/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:58:09 -0400 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

]]> 0 7d1d15ef9e0d4d29b9358af26c74ea54 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Philosophical Approaches to Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-48/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:40:09 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d88a3deaa619b416c9779fd426895c5a Laurie Ringer deposited “With Teeth:" Beyond Theoretical Violence in Gothic Studies in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615835/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:37:52 -0400 This article collides St. Apollonia’s medieval passion narratives – manuscript illustrations, church screens, and paintings by Francisco De Zurbarán and Carlo Dolci – with A.L. Kennedy’s contemporary short story “Story of My Life” to find out what happens when we move beyond the theoretical violence imposed by traditional approaches to gothic studies.

]]> 0 e1620800ec8713f36cbbac8319c3b844 Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Kafka_Transformed from TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599827/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:57:03 -0500 0 0d9fd5685188a87eb0e5622eb7c15569 Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group TC Philosophy and Literature: Would anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599589/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:39:17 -0500 Would anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.

]]> 0 39e54e93adb29409f52d3875c50ceb3f Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599382/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:55:13 -0500 An introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

]]> 0 40680cbeb5f1ea19c26d9867e73693d0 Laurie Ringer deposited Stage 3: Theory Palette Revision in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592978/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 05:50:56 -0500 The Stage 3 revision sets up the Theory Palette with hues and tones of green (author, history, and nature), yellow (culture), purple (psyche), grey (text), red (reader), dark blue (literature), light blue (language), rose (embodiment/perception), and hot pink (intersectional feminisms).

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