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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La Peste Escarlata’ y la epidemiología evolutiva in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
El artículo examina el relato de Jack London “La Peste Escarlata” desde la perspectiva de la actual epidemiología evolucionista, sosteniendo que su comprensión pesimista de la dinámica epidemiológica en poblaciones crecientes, y su visión catastrofista de la evolución, son esencialmente correctas y se hallan muy por delante de las ideas recibi…[Read more]
Victoria Addis deposited Forming Ecomasculinities through Deep Ecology in Gravity’s Rainbow in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
This article examines the concept of ecomasculinity – how masculinities and ecologies interact – through the lens of deep ecology, arguing (following Serpil Oppermann) that Pynchon’s postmodernist boundary collapsing informs deep-ecological interconnections for male characters previously embroiled in negative cycles of patriarchal dominance.…[Read more]
Malin Lidström Brock deposited Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
In Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001) multiculturalism is described as moralistic and essentialist; both novels present black American male protagonists who feel victimized by multiculturalism. Although critics have maintained that the two novels present a universalist view of American identity, in this cha…[Read more]
Malin Lidström Brock deposited Almost French: Food, Class, and Gender in the American Expatriate Memoir in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This chapter explores links among food, class and gender in two memoirs written by contemporary American expatriates in France. The argument made is that references to French cuisine simultaneously create and resolve the tensions that arise in the texts when the authors describe their ideal and elitist lives to a presumed American female…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic SSRN English & American Literature Research Network in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
English & American Literature Research Network: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/01/english-american-literature-research.html
Lorena Gauthereau started the topic Call for applications: US Latino/a/x Digital Humanities Grants-in-Aid ($7,500) in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
University of Houston
Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH)
Call for Proposals
GRANTS-IN-AID funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide training and research on US Latino…[Read more]Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Emily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
Jayashree Kamble replied to the topic seeking a NYC-area research assistant in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I’d suggest emailing the American Studies department at the CUNY graduate center. They might have grad students who can take on your task. (Of course, the NYPL is closed for archival research at the moment.)
Matthew Calihman started the topic seeking a NYC-area research assistant in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hello American Literature Group:
I am looking for a research assistant to photograph some archival material for me at the New York Public Library. Do you know of any people doing this kind of work in the NYC area? Thank you very much, in advance, for any help you can offer.
Sincerely,
Matthew Calihman
Missouri State University
Lourdes Estrada-López started the topic CFP: From Manuscript to Digital (Virtual Conference) Deadline October, 31st in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago
CFP: II International Conference From Manuscript to Digital: Worldwide English Literature and Worldwide Literatures in English
Organizers: University of Lincoln, Universidade de Lisboa, Universidad de Jaén
Location: Jaén, Spain (Virtual-Google Meet)
Dates: December 1-3, 2020
Deadline: 31st October 2020This second International Conference F…[Read more]
Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
In his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “What Thoughts I Have of You Tonight, Walt Whitman” Continuity and Innovation in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
In his essay “The Poet,” Emerson called for the poet who would sing the burgeoning nation of the United States of America. The answer to his request far exceeded all his expectations in the form of a ground-breaking volume of poems where Walt Whitman sang not only a nation, but the people who inhabited it as the people incarnated the values, str…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Bob Dylan in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
Free access: The Bob Dylan Review 2.1 (Summer 2020): https://www.dylanreview.org/vol-2-1-summer-2020
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘El Juego de Ender’: La realidad flojea in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: ‘El juego de Ender’ (1977, 1985) es una de esas ficciones en las que la realidad flojea, donde se circula de modo inesperado o sorpresivo entre niveles de realidad y de representación, donde a veces no queda claro si la acción está transcurriendo en un mundo sólido o en uno virtual, y donde a veces creemos estar en uno y est…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Literary theory and Narratology blogs in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
You’re also welcome to join or follow two groups if you’re interested in literary theory and in narratology, each of them with its attendant blog:
Literary theory group: https://hcommons.org/groups/literary-theory/
Literary theory blog: https://literarytheory.hcommons.org/
Narrative Theory and Narratology group:…[Read more]
Subhasis Chattopadhyay deposited Reading Slant During Covid-19: A Contrarian List in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
Today’s academia is obsessed about writing and speaking gobbledygook. It has little time in sitting still and actually reading fiction, poetry and say, Wittgenstein. One pretends to say fancy things about these authors but one does not actually read books anymore. COVID 19 Lockdown prompted this author to answer queries from students and peers…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Notes from Northrop Frye ‘Anatomy of Criticism’ (A Post-Mortem of the Anatomy) in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Notes from Northrop Frye´s seminal volume in archetypal/anthropological criticism, “Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1957. Rpt. 1971. 383 p). Notes taken by J. A. García Landa c. 1985, edited with illustrations for online publication 2018-20. Parenthetical pagination numbers refer to the quotations and text f…[Read more]
Danica Savonick deposited Intro to Multicultural Literature Syllabus in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland
What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited اخلاق زیست محیطی یا انسان محوری: بوم نقد تطبیقی با نگاهی به سپهری و امرسن Environmental Ethics versus Anthropocentrism: Comparative Ecocriticism in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
از رویکردهای تازه در حوزۀ نقد ادبی رویکرد بومنقد است که به بررسی رابطۀ میان انسان و طبیعت در ادبیات می پردازد. هرچند تعداد قابل توجهی از آثار نظری و کاربردی در حوزۀ بومنقد منتشر شده است، اما تاکنون توجه چندانی به پژوهش بومنقد تطبیقی نشده است. پژوهش پیشرو تلاشی است برای گشودن باب چنین پژوهش هایی به زبان فارسی در فضای دانشگاهی ایران. شا…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sobrevenidas y exaptación: La ley de la calle in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
English abstract: A 2005 note on exaptation, a concept coined by Stephen Jay Gould, and its relationship with a famous dictum by William Gibson according to which ‘the street finds its own uses for things’. These uses can be studied only retrospectively, not prospectively or intentionally, as they are the products of history and of the contingency…[Read more]
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