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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Makes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 months ago
Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
This is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I’m sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the “uncanny body politic,” the uncanny valley, “dystopian poetics,” what it means…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley” in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
In “I, Stereotype,” Seo-Young Chu applies Mori’s theory of the uncanny valley not to robots but to a different species of humanoid artifact: stereotypes of the “yellow peril.” Through analyses of stories by Sax Rohmer, World War Two propaganda, and films from the Bond franchise, Chu investigates ways in which the logic of the uncanny valley has…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
In Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which is otherwise ostensibly unavailable to them for being reclones who have only partial memories.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
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]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
I think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
The syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
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Adrian Versteegh replied to the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Hi Jeffrey—I’d be happy to volunteer. I’m a member and I attend every year. Just let me know what you need.
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic Delegate Assembly Nominees Sought! in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Hi Folks–want to get more involved in the MLA Gothic Studies forum? We need to submit to MLA a short list of nominees (2 or 3 people) to attend the delegate assembly meeting at the annual convention. So the person needs to be a member of MLA (or willing to become one!) who plans to attend the convention at least twice in the next 3 years. Please…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock started the topic MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group in the discussion
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
For anyone interested, there is now an MLA Gothic Studies Facebook Group (easier to use / access than the MLA forum site I think). You can sign on at http://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAGothicStudies
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Numbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
Because it is all too easy to (accidentally) make assumptions about what first-year students know about language, in 2019-2020 my lit and comp type courses will begin with a segment on language, before moving on to sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Our exploration of language will start by jumping into a story, to help us identify the 8 parts…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
The recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) – Reading Utopia in Dark Times in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
Within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis, how can the idea of Utopia help us galvanise political literary readings? This special session will present a roundtable discussion in which panelists consider how we can use utopian methods to understand different kinds of literary texts, reflecting upon the importance of the…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
Abstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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