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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 4 days, 20 hours agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days agoCognitive 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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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days agoCognitive 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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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days agoCognitive 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 weeks, 1 day agoPost45 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 weeks, 2 days agoRecord, 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
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 4 days agoThis 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 Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 4 days agoThis 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 Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 4 days agoThis 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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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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]
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoVery 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
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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
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 month agoZunshine’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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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 1 month agoZunshine’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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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic CfP ACLA seminar “Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance” in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week agoFor distribution among scholars in: Comparative Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Communications, Spanish/Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities.
Ana Luengo (San Francisco State U) and Alberto Ribas (Santa Clara University) are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 months agoAbstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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