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GS Prose Fiction

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  • Profile picture of Yoon-Sun Lee

    Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 1 month ago

    We welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email  ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.

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    Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 months ago

    Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]

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    Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic CFPs for Prose Fiction Forum sessions at MLA 2023 in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to ylee@wellesley.edu before March 16, 2022.

    1. Narratives Beyond Binaries: Does narrative still rely on binary structures in a world that has moved beyond them (male/female; past/present; public/private)? The binary and nonbinary as modes of thinking; post-poststructuralism; holding theory accountable to…

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    Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction 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 GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction 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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    Kate Marshall started the topic Women and Language CFP in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,
    Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA GS Prose Fiction Forum? I’ve pasted it below, but it’s also available online here.
    Thanks,Leland G. Spencer, Editor
    Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

    Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal pub…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Elaine Auyoung

    Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    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]

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    Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    Beyond the Individual #763

    Sunday, January 12 2020
    1:45pm-3pm
    Sheraton — Willow B

    Presiding: Daniel Hack

    • Character Networks and Collectivity Scott Selisker, U of Arizona
    • Characterization and Combination Andrea Kelly Henderson, U of California, Irvine
    • Mohsin Hamid’s Global Direct Address Benjamin Mangrum, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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    Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    #256 Fictions of Belonging

    Friday, 10 January 2020
    10:15am-11:30am
    Sheraton — Willow B

    Speakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…

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    Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago

    The journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
    ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’.
    We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]

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    Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel to Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago

    The journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]

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    Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Routledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
    Many thanks,
    Gloria McMillan, Editor
    Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
    glomc@dakotacom.net

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months ago

    This study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children’s Literature, History in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    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.

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    Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]

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    Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019

    176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
    7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
    Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom A

    Presentations

    Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah

    Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…

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    Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
    176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
    7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
    Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom A

    Presentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah

    Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…

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    Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    Offering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]

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    Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group Group logo of GS Prose FictionGS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago

    This essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]

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