MLA Commons | James Karman | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jkarman/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which James Karman is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 114ee83fce11a8960ee323c26b63d5cb Jack Dudley started the topic Black Studies and Spirituality (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/black-studies-and-spirituality-mla-2027/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:29:22 -0500 Black Studies and Spirituality

This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 18eddb608fffee862a75ea355d51f8f0 William Viestenz started the topic City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/city-of-angels-migration-encounter-and-new-forms-of-faith-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:22:51 -0500 For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, d…[Read more]

]]> 0 e16ff38350b1015ec0ce696065f49325 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA TC Religion and Literature Executive Self-Nominations Invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-tc-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:45:37 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2027. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

 Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the na…

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]]> 0 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1710a5c1c5f873429e0d70337b99b99 Heng Du started the topic MLA2026 Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panel in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla2026-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:36:53 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. All three papers so far deal with temporality in the religious context, and we will probably highlight this dimension in the finalized panel description. I included below a draft that can be further tailored according to your…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4db8fe48eecfe98104fadb1e7936b51 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-religion-literature-and-palestinian-liberation-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:35:48 -0500 <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the TC Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 562c560d4a8a1016ea953f8931cdbebd Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-brave-sermons-religious-speech-and-the-struggle-for-justice-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:31:55 -0500 <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet (2010), r…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0369cd34af62690abd75124ce43dc91 María Herrera-Sobek replied to the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/#post-1039403 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:35:19 -0500 Dear Professor Cynthia Wallace,
I am responding to your invitation to self-nominate for the position in the
MLA Executive Committee for the forum TC Religion and Literature.
Much of my research has focused on the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Mexican
ballad and the Mexican Christmas plays or Pastorelas.
Thanking you,
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Professor…[Read more]

]]> 0 52a949909c4ab7e8bc0768b74531d41b Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:55:46 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2026. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

<i data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Appointments</i>. Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e5aae4c57dbff7a0d88b01d57df95a9 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889768/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:06:01 -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 9e91f3860ebd86c04cdacdd458483d27 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888752/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:04:48 -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 64fa4498d4e3e1b595823b9cc5cf6325 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887844/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:05:44 -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 77e9e20a412ac725aad1a7b544c48302 Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887555/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:05:04 -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 94cd4edd2fc699e0ce59ff16b9868e8d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:24:30 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 14fd710192c2cacea60bcf12493eba2a Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874115/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf7e909f3f0ea7d13970897743e3f339 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. MLA Convention Session #154 in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/religion-in-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction-mla-convention-session-154/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:38:32 -0500 You are cordially invited to the  first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction

Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
S…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c0375c7978e2e06f6506679c8d371de Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic New executive committee member to be appointed soon in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/new-executive-committee-member-to-be-appointed-soon/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:06:04 -0500 Dear forum members,

If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6873c1affb3a760931be2104e4f8c8f Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868241/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:04:28 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 b42e8544a63a68b55bc4e7f045f2c1ac Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-17/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:09:30 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> 0 e378d0584f4c3a24cd6fd2b3d01ac9cf Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:18:44 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. It is possible to download the article from the following link for free:…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca6579937e0f1cad7da5eb44a701f377 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:52:38 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcd8a9fe3d7d60fbcbbb3ed79b432a55 Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866784/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:03:40 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 d63016f53b2ead1228aa3dc2eae70ffe Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866467/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 b519953a878ab0679f5984b66717e0f1 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863983/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:06:17 -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 7ed0ff2f9c60b03993dbcd456c289880 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863980/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:18 -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 098193ec95d4a758716c946e549c44c2 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861779/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:19:23 -0400 This article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef7b41cccf02bd2f98f7d6e58e6f9304 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861770/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:05:28 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 377f7ccb455cc730d286255c8df1763a Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860582/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:10:02 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b773a8ffbe8ffaa9453cc44a4e595f7 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860579/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:00:13 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 c78b7af6fcde8f0ae9d929f600528734 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857505/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:16:31 -0400 In his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]

]]> 0 0966e777d6c4fbd83157f5cd4d04ce9d Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group MS Visual Culture: Very happy to share that my article on Kracauer's […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857371/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:22:41 -0400 Very happy to share that my article on Kracauer’s “Photography” essay (1927) and its weird use of Bachofen’s theory of the archaic matriarchy has just been published in The Germanic Review. E-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNSXEEHMUQYSFFXG3TZ9/full?target=10.1080/00168890.2023.2232511

]]> 0 dc6d789a2d242c1f5a8f7977c807d107 Steven Schroeder deposited the epic opposite | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume ten in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854161/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:13:36 -0400 the epic opposite is the tenth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c368497307a73690861fee032b30ea8 Steven Schroeder deposited solitude is another matter | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume nine in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854160/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:10:59 -0400 solitude is another matter is the ninth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea2ef9f95e46db5aa11509fb14d94737 Steven Schroeder deposited a composition of fractions | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume eight in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854159/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:07:59 -0400 a composition of fractions is the eighth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

]]> 0 9538c7bf1d2cfe2269b0e0c6c83ea446 Steven Schroeder deposited how this city lies | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume seven in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853857/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:26:45 -0400 The seventh of ten notebooks, drafted between June 2008 and March 2009. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here.

]]> 0 87fbb21f14bb6552ea962e516704b0f1 Steven Schroeder deposited the fleeting possibility of otherwise | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume six in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853856/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The sixth of ten notebooks, drafted between June 2007 and June 2008. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. Many of the poems in part two are included in a dim sum of the day before, published by Ink…[Read more]

]]> 0 eae592cce7e3af51b8d0ebade781cc8d Steven Schroeder deposited before the body was cold | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume five in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853271/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The fifth of ten notebooks, drafted between April 2006 and June 2007. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. While particular places are referenced in the text of some of the poems in this volume, only…[Read more]

]]> 0 b233785285bed1f828be67108ae2e5d0 Steven Schroeder deposited an orchestration of silences | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume four in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853086/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:28:05 -0400 The fourth of ten notebooks, drafted between February and August 2006. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. This fourth volume differs from the first three in that all of the compositions are clearly…[Read more]

]]> 0 20e140ccbfcde129dc0cd8ffc8fdb84d Steven Schroeder deposited the fragility of gathering | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume three in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853085/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:46 -0400 The third of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is what I found myself doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9d4e476b83a091365554a754118ac8 Steven Schroeder deposited deep enough to hold a city | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume two in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852466/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:51 -0400 The second of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is what I found myself doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0783317a4a393b57099344e3fad8d8b Steven Schroeder deposited a tiny circle tessellated | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume one in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852241/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:28:34 -0400 a tiny circle tessellated is the first of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

]]> 0 21f7d508e367a9adafbb932ffc469994 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847389/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:15:26 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 f746fdba991b01f88844310ee9302132 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847384/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:54:55 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

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