MLA Commons | Ari Linden | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/asl63/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Ari Linden is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:59:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4a3e696105cf9639e86c490f2c4dd7c0 Helen Finch replied to the topic Seeking new Forum Committee member for LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/seeking-new-forum-committee-member-for-llc-20th-and-21st-century-german/#post-1040772 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:49:23 -0500 Dear all, apologies for the formatting above.

Apologies for the formatting above: please see clean copy below.

The Modern Language Association of America LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (D061) Forum is seeking a new Forum Committee Member to take up the role for a five-year term starting in 2027. We would particularly welcome applications from…[Read more]

]]> 0 03c28885b10dd5c753fc3b6802b3f234 Helen Finch started the topic CFP: Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in 20th and 21st C German Culture in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-beyond-identities-queer-formations-in-20th-and-21st-c-german-culture/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:54:07 -0500 <div class=”x_elementToProof” data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Dear colleagues, please do consider submitting an abstract for the Forum sessions at the MLA conference in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027,  on <b>Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Culture</b>. Abstracts are due by 16 March 2026.…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbaa5602e9857944ce31adcdbc958a1f Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940348/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:24:56 -0500 0 6a3fe91f5a5b33a51aeaca46ebf3461c Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940345/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:22:47 -0500 0 18d5efa7eab9aaae3c3d9cf96295ce19 Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940344/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:21:09 -0500 0 7974eee32a97cd3fbf0e12b3aa461eae Lynn Wolff started the topic CFP: The Holocaust in a Global Context in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-the-holocaust-in-a-global-context/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:10:57 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract to the session The Holocaust in a Global Context at the MLA conference, taking place January 8–11, 2026 in Toronto. Submissions are due by March 15, 2025. This session is organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum.

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by p…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 6bcabc0fd4f13b0dc91dd570a224e88e Julie Koser started the topic CFP: Explorations of Space (MLA, Toronto, Jan. 8-11, 2026) in the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-explorations-of-space-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2026/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:52:20 -0500 Modern Language Association Conference
Toronto
January 8–11, 2026

CFP: Explorations of Space (organized by the LLC Forum for 18th- and early 19th-Century German)

The Forum for 18th- and early 19th-century German seeks papers contributing new insights to notions of space in the German-speaking world around 1800. The “spatial turn” has gener…[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 4c3b892d1e3b434a5cf176e5fcc2089b Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-5/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:42:38 -0500 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[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 57e89a423ca365b2a6776c7458ed68cd Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/literary-alliances-networks-and-solidarities-across-minoritized-communities/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:49:32 -0500 Modern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025

CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e150779b244dc167bfa4d43d87a4120 Marc Caplan replied to the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/nominations-for-global-jewish-executive-committee/#post-1036843 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:19:45 -0500 I’m pleased to second Jonathan’s nomination, if necessary…!

]]> 0 c87f6d2244c2fa3cb8fb467d7868eb68 Jonathan S. Skolnik replied to the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/nominations-for-global-jewish-executive-committee/#post-1036842 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:25:43 -0500 Hi Laini, I’d like to self-nominate. I’ll also send an email. All best, Jonathan Skolnik UMass Amherst

]]> 0 e27b667f0613fdaf7fab228361c5ae69 Laini Kavaloski started the topic Nominations for Global Jewish Executive Committee in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/nominations-for-global-jewish-executive-committee/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:56:45 -0500 We are looking for nominations for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee (self-nominations encouraged). The term runs for five years, from January 2025 through January 2030.

]]> 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 2b25ece5230cb09d4d2419cb2d2472fb Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-2/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:37:17 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 099646671b8aafeae1ce5d9299f188e8 Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852821/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:52:52 -0400 Abstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.

]]> 0 786d1eb88c8fba27c9b15138691472c6 Corinna Sauter deposited Vom Schwarzwerden des Humors in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847475/ Mon, 29 May 2023 02:24:03 -0400 Der Beitrag widmet sich dem satirischen Humor Jean Pauls als schwarzem Humor skizzenhaft ausgehend von der Fundierung des ästhetischen Humors in der Weltverachtung (§ 33 der “Vorschule der Ästhetik”). In einer Lektüreminiatur zur späten menippeischen Satire “Des Geburthelfers Walther Vierneissel Nachtgedanken über seine verlornen Fötus…[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 f961471f572e61578c6d410742acddf8 Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion CLCS Global Jewish https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-jewish/forum/topic/seeking-nominations/ Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:47:27 -0500 We are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.

    <li dir=”ltr”>Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
    <li dir=”ltr”>Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve…

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]]> 0 c6bb33777e3a472c1990b66f805697e1 Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821416/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:23:58 -0500 The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa7cb7386ffe304db87d78fa02e4ec76 Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821158/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:48:43 -0500 This is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[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 2a4083b2e279b5e05c4b3623149eb20e Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe's Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-musical-responses-to-goethes-works-asecs-st-louis-march-9-11-2023-3/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 21:15:08 -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 (St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023). I’m a disabled and unemployed musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote div…[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 2e592712acdc5a60d5e01a5ece80b69a Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792028/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:25:03 -0400 This document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.

]]> 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 580927c10ebbc26f53b5c671c15080c2 Corinna Sauter deposited "nur die Flüssigkeit gibt die Freiheit zu neuer Gestaltung". Überlegungen zum Witz als Prinzip der ungebundenen Schreibart bei Jean Paul in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779737/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:26:22 -0400 Der Aufsatz widmet sich dem Jean Paulschen Witz als einem grundlegenden Verfahren, das maßgeblich zur Poetizität seiner satirischen Prosa beiträgt. Der Gang der Argumentation führt vom Wort-Schatz als Ressource des Witzes (I.) über die Manöver des (unbildlichen) Witzes (II.), die sprachliche Selbstreferenz des Wortspiels (III.) und die Anagr…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca8c8bdb65d6132ece8418ad7d404611 Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in "Gutmanns Reisen" in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779735/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:25:13 -0400 Mit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in “Gutmanns Reisen” eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende ‘Literaturgeschichte’ fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]

]]> 0 a77eddcd40efc8eb7611b40df54ddf65 Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa - "Oder umgekehrt". Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire "Deutscher Mondschein" (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779733/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:23:55 -0400 Raabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur ‘dürftiger Prose’ inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit “Deutscher Mondschein” vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[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 da473a28034c1a1666a0f682a660da04 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Redesigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-redesigning-modernities-special-issue-of-comparative-literature-studies/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:40:09 -0500 The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of t…[Read more]

]]> 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]

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