MLA Commons | GS Prose Fiction | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/ Activity feed for the group, GS Prose Fiction. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 -0400 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> 0 daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 -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 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c7eee83e6c1050917a831971f326076 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:12 -0400 SNS 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2025 conference t…[Read more]

]]> 0 35509d6899737496d6df1fffec6cee0d Aarthi Vadde started the topic Society of Novel Studies 2025 CFP: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/society-of-novel-studies-2025-cfp-novel-languages/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:31 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website

The 2025 conference theme—…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d7c6486c99ba64dab093d69d0b2bfb1 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889186/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:53 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3cfa136dddbc55ff6bc164146493c0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889181/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:53 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 c66d5f0bbd7bdb647ff290fb6a4bf5af Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889176/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:35 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff084706159c2ecf7f3e8fc3524deb38 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877012/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:05:35 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f16633d3d893f4c79bc09d7d40fbf75b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-5/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:35:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.)

We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 22c51628c59efe7b38796c9b00f9d75d Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-committee-members/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:09:16 -0500 We’d very much like nominations for our new committee member.  The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!):  c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE:  Jan 15th 2024.

]]> 0 7b89a1e64b8e0d438dae42cc1c28894d Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865790/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:04:02 -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 e8738e5b3ae6c76147f6ec3171a0b4cb Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858166/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:10:58 -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 9e7e8264f2e197870aa427aea8dbc537 Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real" in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856305/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:19:23 -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 d7a2d4550837e07aec2ee67ca16ae58d Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855419/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:19:29 -0400 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fb4bfbdae49c6c75d4a41bc0507375c Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Journeys across fragmented lands: Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1840266/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:40:56 -0400 Solidarity between South Africa and Palestine has a long history, and often times, a comparison is drawn between the apartheid system in South Africa and the Israeli occupation and settler-colonial project in Palestine. In 1997, the late South African President, Nelson Mandela, said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete without t…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b87801c99f94c3b3c6915254e42f1c6 Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations for the Prose Fiction Forum executive committee in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-prose-fiction-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 03:53:46 -0500 We welcome nominations from our membership. Please feel free to email  ylee@wellesley.edu before Jan. 17, 2023.

]]> 0 bfd7a3dc2bba9262556e8fc97d6aa5fa Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1825763/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:23:38 -0500 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]

]]> 0 37312f9e958a0cfdebfa06eeabbc1319 Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic CFPs for Prose Fiction Forum sessions at MLA 2023 in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfps-for-prose-fiction-forum-sessions-at-mla-2023/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:42:15 -0500 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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]]> 0 8480f03600c13931f58c7b9dab53f6f2 Samuel Baker deposited Scott's Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733234/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:25:55 -0400 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]

]]> 0 45d311f3cf4d2a840d993df3800239c7 Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1688875/ Thu, 28 May 2020 03:48:43 -0400 a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies

]]> 0 f9ff9a6479089e6d9dee466fe6f7c416 Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1686503/ Thu, 07 May 2020 03:48:45 -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 08dae74fdd2a51df7d36fe21847f2b87 Kate Marshall started the topic Women and Language CFP in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/women-and-language-cfp-2/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:34:02 -0400 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]

]]> 0 21c694d8f1dfdcb50d526e7e5eb0296d Elaine Auyoung deposited Narrative Theory in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1677872/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:48:44 -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 8140eba9a01dde780acc82382a0b2e91 Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/mla-2020-gs-prose-fiction-panel-beyond-the-individual/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:25:36 -0500 Beyond the Individual #763

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

Presiding: Daniel Hack

]]> 0 07e75d52ba5fd18539ef4ca1ab297dd8 Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/mla-2020-gs-prose-fiction-roundtable-fictions-of-belonging/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:21:31 -0500 #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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]]> 0 551350b9f8a88732ceea4f1dc801d7b3 Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: 'Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'. in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636781/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:28:01 -0400 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]

]]> 0 742c071d52687b9b5978802d0b788dab Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel to GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636758/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:55:13 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ddcc8ed502dd0b08c5b89f7a1603767e Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634168/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 04:08:19 -0500 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

]]> 0 ab7e3ccba29365b9a70b622283fcee9f Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631673/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:25:21 -0500 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.

]]> 0 48dc8aac54e30b45cb01ad713a5ebd71 Lisa Zunshine deposited What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children's Literature, History in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628417/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:50:03 -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 cc98a71d0485c6e61fe913598f26cd08 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 GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628090/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:25:53 -0500 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]

]]> 0 0e89bc1e9be7c43f1e1f9f9d5465241c Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/gs-prose-fiction-panel-at-mla-2019-on-religions-and-secularisms-in-the-novel/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:04:53 -0500 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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]]> 0 5230df0f59a2f01f57cda027de0f2baf Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/a-gs-prose-fiction-panel-at-mla-2019-176-religions-and-secularisms-in-the-novel/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:01:47 -0500 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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]]> 0 5510ddc45532f488479c41f82b4fc569 Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621642/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:07:40 -0400 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]

]]> 0 66fda84a99c90c9fad05f35728bc2c1e Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620610/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:29:23 -0400 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]

]]> 0 858e4b4f850f162f3b019ea682af14b0 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Resisting the cul-de-sac in Disgrace, Master of Petersburg and Life & Times of Michael K in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615314/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 04:03:49 -0400 Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ends in both acts with the two tramps not moving in spite of agreeing that they should leave. Even though Vladimir and Estragon realize the futility of their wait, they remain adamant in the hope that Godot may arrive. Likewise, the Unnamable who cannot go on chooses to go on. What essentially translates in b…[Read more]

]]> 0 b407ed0303bc933739da4cfee20c2433 Stephen A. Ross deposited Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1614497/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 03:48:43 -0400 From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many tribes and subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of the most important contemporary British wri…[Read more]

]]> 0 545fa5c1c66e99c6b71f7aba414680b6 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Race in Chicago Story: Farrell "The Fastest Runner on 61st Street" in the discussion Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/race-in-chicago-story-farrell-the-fastest-runner-on-61st-street-2/ Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:46:59 -0400 RESEARCHGATE:
Update on Rust Belt Lit. Projects for July 19, 2018

 

 

 

James T. Farrell’s (d. 1979) 1950 short story “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street, A Story” is set during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.

 

 

LINK:  https:…[Read more]

]]> 0 b02ee2e2afebe702fd18dfb34c40d347 Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610298/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:48:43 -0400 Review of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).

]]> 0 9016c90b2f77dd7eac4d48941df6429a Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608361/ Tue, 15 May 2018 03:48:43 -0400 Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]

]]> 0 5108828bb4c72ae6544a574b7a029be4 Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607887/ Sun, 06 May 2018 04:15:39 -0400 An analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]

]]> 0 854f2a3b3df7a0df638db2e8b0f69b61 Octavio Gonzalez deposited Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604360/ Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:00:15 -0400 Part of the Introduction in lieu of an abstract:
Christopher Isherwood’s celebrated novel A Single Man portrays a gay man as an ordinary human being. For its time, the novel’s depiction of homosexuality as a legitimate minoritarian identity, rather than individual pathology, was a radical political gesture. Given this context, literary critics…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a7fee83ed835362d71838a15fc75ebe Octavio Gonzalez deposited The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys' Quartet in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604273/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 03:57:17 -0400 Abstract: This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel _Quartet_. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b048ac7045b5831467657ae9f74b13f Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group GS Prose Fiction: MLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction Title of session: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601172/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:28:53 -0500 MLA 2019: CFP from GS Prose Fiction
Title of session: Religions + Secularisms in the Novel
Submission requirements: 200-wd abstract & brief bio to jhg@ucla.edu
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018
Description: After the demise of the secular thesis, new ways of reading the novel in relation to secularism and religion?
Contact person…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cade267a6d647ae248d036cd80c902c Jonathan Grossman posted an update in the group GS Prose Fiction: MLA 2018 in New York (technical difficulties prevented me […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601115/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:00:44 -0500 MLA 2018 in New York
(technical difficulties prevented me this year from posting the GS Prose Fiction panels before MLA; apologies!)
GS Prose Fiction held two panels: Fictionality in a Post-Fact World & Infrastructure
I will post the call for papers for MLA 2019’s panel here.

]]> 0 5ecb2d2ea26bb7ad6b6b36f3a3a68f23 Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO'S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591611/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:44:58 -0500 Giorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ff2a019138229efa1f20e11b6b53583 Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group GS Prose Fiction: Special Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580223/ Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:23:25 -0400 Special Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (of potential interest to those working on narrative and surrealism/dadaism)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945

deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Rom…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0f01247ef0fbd5cb48f7eae1f307ae8 Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1576724/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:10:01 -0400 A review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)

]]> 0 87b27e25f3311e9cd107c1d53c584b93 Stephen A. Ross deposited The Secret Agency of Dispossession in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573009/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:35:40 -0400 What happens if the homo sacer kills before he can be killed? What if the dispossessed repossess what was taken from them? What if some agent declares a state of exception to the state of exception? Starting from the observation that Agamben and Butler/Athanasiou characterize bare life and the dispossessed, respectively, in terms of radical…[Read more]

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