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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 6 days ago
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]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
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]
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
‘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]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
‘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]
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Jessica Winston started the topic 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award Winner Announced in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” as the winner of the 2023 Teaching Literature Book Award. The Teaching Literature Book Award (TLBA) is a national prize that recognizes the best book on teaching literature at the college level.
The award is pres…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 months ago
This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]
Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press
Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison
Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023
Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024
As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the epic opposite | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume ten in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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]
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Steven Schroeder deposited solitude is another matter | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume nine in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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]
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Steven Schroeder deposited a composition of fractions | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume eight in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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]
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Steven Schroeder deposited how this city lies | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume seven in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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.
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Steven Schroeder deposited the fleeting possibility of otherwise | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume six in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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]
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Steven Schroeder deposited before the body was cold | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume five in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 months ago
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]
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Steven Schroeder deposited an orchestration of silences | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume four in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 months ago
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]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the fragility of gathering | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume three in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 months ago
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]
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