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    Carla Sassi started the topic The 2022 Jack Medal (IASSL). Call for submissions and nominations in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    We are pleased to inform you that the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL) is now accepting submissions and nominations for the 2022 Jack Medal competition.

    The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article or book chapter on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    Dear Colleagues,
    We are pleased to inform you that the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL) is now accepting submissions and nominations for the 2022 Jack Medal competition.

    The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article or book chapter on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1987-2004.…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

    Please join us on 24th September at 17.00 (BST) for ‘Environmental Scotland’, the second in IASSL’s series of panel discussions on Scottish literatures. Speakers include Susan Oliver, Sìm Innes, Samantha Walton and Monika Szuba. Titles and abstracts of their presentations are attached below. The webinar is free and open to everyone but…[Read more]

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    Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    A distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    Dear members of LCC Scottish,

    We are hoping that you might be able to help us publicize the following news items from the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL).

    1. We are offering a free three-year membership for PhD students working on topics in Scottish literatures and languages. This offer is partly a…[Read more]

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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 LLC ScottishLLC Scottish 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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    Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature” in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Special issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.

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    Carla Sassi deposited Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Italy was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi started the topic THE JACK PRIZE – International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago

    In 2018, the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures launched the Jack Prize, awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The prize is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack D.Litt. FRSE (1941-2016),…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (IASSL 2020, Prague) programme and information on registration and accommodation are now available at https://scotlit2020.ff.cuni.cz/in-prague/

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    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi deposited Sir Walter Scott and the Caribbean: Unravelling the Silences in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago

    My essay interrogates the striking silences in Scott’s oeuvre in relation to Scotland’s involvement as a partner of the British Empire in the colonization of the Caribbean and in the exploitation of slavery in this region. By drawing from narratological theories (especially those articulated by Robyn R. Warhol and Ruth Rosaler), I treat Scott’s…[Read more]

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    Juliet Shields posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago

    CFP: Ways of Reading Scotland
    I’m seeking papers for a guaranteed panel at the 2018 MLA on the topic “Ways of Reading Scotland.”
    How have new technologies and modes of reading (digital, distant, surface, affective, ethical, ecocritical…) changed our understanding of Scottish literature—whether of an individual text, a corpus of works, a particula…[Read more]

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    Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    This sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.

    ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
    Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more]

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    Susan Oliver deposited “Introduction,” Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    Preview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.

    Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]

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    Susan Oliver deposited “Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.” in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years ago

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    This article explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of costume as a device for exploring Scotland’s fetishization of it’s literary and cultural history. In Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, the mythologizing of James Durie as the eponymous Master depends upon a series of dramatic costume changes. Durie confounds attempts to consign…[Read more]

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    Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    This essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]

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    Carla Sassi posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC ScottishLLC Scottish on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months ago

    CFP: CREATIVE ARCHIPELAGOS
    Explorations of Islands in Scottish Literature and Culture
    29 June–1 July 2018, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye

    This conference will investigate the many portrayals, both historical and contemporary, of the rich, distinctive cultures of the Scottish islands or islands with Scottish connections through poetry and so…[Read more]

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    Juliet Shields started the topic CFP Reminder: World Congress of Scottish Literatures in the discussion Group logo of LLC ScottishScottish Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago

    The deadline to submit proposals for the World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Vancouver, BC, 21-25 June, 2017) is fast approaching!  Please send proposals for individual papers or complete panels  that speak to the theme of “dialogues and diasporas” to scotlit@sfu.ca by Oct. 1.

    For further information about the conference, s…[Read more]

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