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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoWhen it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns deposited The Horizon’s Hoop: Emerson’s “Monadnoc” in Contingency and History on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
When it is spoken of at all, Emerson’s “Monadnoc” is described as a solicitation of natural sublimity. But a close rhetorical analysis of the poem reveals greater ambivalence about this sublimity than is apparent—linking it to later American philosophic poems by Frost, Stevens, Ammons, and Kinnell that at once solicit and question natural plenitu…[Read more]
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Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years ago<h3>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h3>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Nicholas Birns started the topic CFP; Teaching Indigenous Lit in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years ago<h1>Teaching Indigenous Australian and New Zealand Literatures</h1>
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<div><b>Special Session</b></div>
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Maori and Aboriginal Australian literatures as taught worldwide; theoretical/pedagogical discussions welcome. Contributions on Grace, Ihimaera, Wright, Scott or any other relevant writer welcome. 1-page abstracts by 3 March 2014;…[Read more] -
Nicholas Birns changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago
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