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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoSeeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and brief CV by 15 March…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: Comparing Doris Lessing's Historical & Speculative Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoLooking Backward, Looking Forward: Comparative Readings of Doris Lessing’s Historical and Speculative Fiction
for the MLA Convention in Austin, 2016.Seeking comparisons of Lessing’s historical-realist-autobiographical to her speculative novels or stories, as these are often considered by critics to be separate areas or phases of Lessing’s wo…[Read more]
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Cornelius Collins wrote a new post, Bleeding Edge’s publicity, on the site Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months ago
Before its official publication, Bleeding Edge was promoted online by some unorthodox means, including:
the leak of its first page to Vice in April
a web site created to (obliquely) represent <a […] -
Cornelius Collins wrote a new post, reviews of Bleeding Edge, on the site Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
Early, prominent, or neither:
David Kipen in Publisher’s Weekly, 19 Aug.
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, 10 Sept.
Jonathan Lethem in The New York Times Book Review, 15 Sept.
Evgeny Morozov in […] -
Cornelius Collins wrote a new post, panel description, on the site Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago
If reports are to be believed, September 2013 will see the publication of a new novel by Thomas Pynchon, marking the third in seven years—a rate of productivity formerly unprecedented in this author’s closely […]
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Cornelius Collins wrote a new post, special session for MLA 2014: Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge, on the site Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago
Thursday, 9 January
134. Pynchon at the Bleeding Edge: A Discussion of Thomas Pynchon’s New Novel
5:15–6:30 p.m.
A special session
Presiding: Cornelius Collins, Fordham Univ., Bronx
Speakers: Paul […]
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