Knowledge Commons | Charles Edward Fox | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/cfoxrocks/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Charles Edward Fox is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:59:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[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]

]]> b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[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 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 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]

]]> 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 d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[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 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 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -0400 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]

]]> 0 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 -0400 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]

]]> 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 e50073a729e182336a88ef3e62e32a10 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847390/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:18:26 -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 9f2237866c263e769b3e808b285d54a8 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847385/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:57:59 -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]

]]> 0 100d2fff64eb027a43efe3a35f803c28 Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/rhythm-speed-path-spatiotemporal-experiences-in-narrative-poetry-and-drama/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:54:54 -0500 Dear colleagues,

we've extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.

The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).

This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]

]]> a0889bba58491081846e2be766965bbc Steven Schroeder deposited still in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1834088/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:23:38 -0500 "Steven Schroeder's most recent collection of poems, Still, offers an amazing juxtaposition of imaginary elements and sensible phenomena that keeps the reader turning page after page in wonder. Poems of varied textures, from Zen-like shorts to lengthier narratives, offer shifts in perspective that surprise and delight, many with seasonal beauty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f142e726b81d1206287c6af70517c41 Steven Schroeder deposited one well ordered collision among others in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1833987/ Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:34:40 -0500 The title of this collection, taken from the poem with which the collection closes, calls to mind Helen Frankenthaler’s description of the places where colors converge on raw canvas in her “soak-stain” paintings. That closing poem is a meditation on her “Seven Forms of Ambiguity” in the “1940s to Now” section of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Ark…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b33c9c704322621eb557c97990ab4e4 Darren J. Borg started the topic CFP: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-speculative-fiction-and-eternal-life/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:50:37 -0500 What is a life worth living?Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of prolonging it, whether artificially or by providing warnings against our current behavior in order to preserve the life that already exists. The fact that death and…[Read more]

]]> 7b3f4fd2df015b91808a96ac7545fcdc Steven Schroeder deposited learning to see nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830072/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:31:20 -0500 Exhibition Catalog for "learning to see nothing: new and recent work on paper and canvas," by Steven Schroeder. Eleanor Hayes Art Gallery, Kinzer Performing Arts Center, Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, Oklahoma, 4 September – 18 October 2018.

]]> 0 60c4c16d97c66ee22be952e172a02045 Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830069/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:23:38 -0500 The forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]

]]> 0 d36f8adf9cc0094fc0ae34184e62db47 Steven Schroeder deposited fallen prose in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829953/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:38:57 -0500 China is the occasion, not the subject or the object, of the forty-seven poems collected in Steven Schroeder's Fallen Prose – lyrical glimpses of the “new” city in Southern light. Most of the poems in the collection are set in Shenzhen, a few in Zhuhai, Macao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong – and one or two a bit further west, in Kunming. All attend…[Read more]

]]> 0 306fb80ea61fadb42e13b95a716d55f2 Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829949/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:31:54 -0500 There is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder's new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea21f3d9f1f5c1ab5f051e37772379ac Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829946/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:23:55 -0500 In the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]

]]> 0 51e23497d24cb5c17212ed85c4f7c76a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-39/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:08:43 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 9e5555452c40c60ed093be2e805cb34a Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Ciaran Carson: A Memorial Tribute (10 October 2019) in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817172/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:30:34 -0400 This memorial tribute for the late Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), Irish creative writer extraordinaire, was commissioned three years ago for inclusion in a special number of "Reading Ireland" which has not yet materialised. It is now archived in and by Humanities Common on the third anniversary of his funeral rites and burial in Belfast, Northern…[Read more]

]]> 0 28f3e5d9cad489ba4c9c9d04f5894dd4 Jon Pitt started the topic CFP: International Symposium - Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-international-symposium-writers-who-have-seen-too-much-earth-kin-care/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:29:40 -0400 Call for Proposals 

“Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care”

International Japanese Literature Symposium

30 September – 1 October 2022, In Person

University of California, Irvine

 

This two-day conference gathers scholars who work on five writers: Chiri Yukie (1903-1922), Sakiyama Tami (1954- ), Tsushima Yuko (1947-2016), Ishimu…[Read more]

]]> 8b1f13a72e9ccb4b73f5987928444ac6 Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777282/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:28:07 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 010c74bf0da923680243c0ff1ed8b102 Dustin Friedman deposited “The rarest, most complex & most lately developed form of aestheticism”: Olive Schreiner, decadence, and the aesthetic education of the senses in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769030/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:56:42 -0500 This essay focuses on Olive Schreiner’s personal correspondence and the allegories collected in Dreams (1890) to explore her complicated relationship to late-Victorian Decadence. I argue that Schreiner modified Decadent writers’ use of intersensoriality and synaesthesia to educate her readers into a new kind of common sense, one aligned with her…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bc6a76b7eb821388eb68164a504a5b3 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755577/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:57:52 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7f6b1b8a22b64424bbf416c16ec4669 Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753049/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:28:59 -0400 Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf8ae8a690da7663f80b19e2e6d89e4b Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750925/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:25:58 -0400 This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]

]]> 0 1049995bd59f20bd00ad8c5a5ee1fb8e Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745163/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:06:12 -0400 The connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f3d123febd2cb622282fc78a3d2ca77 Magdalena Ostas deposited Interiority and Expression in Dickinson's Lyrics in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745159/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:52:30 -0400 The argument in this essay is that Dickinson’s poetics of inner life makes us see anew the long-standing philosophical problem of expression. Dickinson’s poetry invests itself in an understanding of subjectivity that rearranges the anchors we often turn to in thinking about how lives and identities take on shape in expressive forms. Poetry for…[Read more]

]]> 0 15e521250fbfcdce2abc61f6bac3348a Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742498/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:39:42 -0400 This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

]]> 0 08f01fe53e9ab2baebbb8a986e27271c James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742216/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:44:38 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb6e94ca2f50e7b1cb505d7f0b812394 Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-library-company-of-philadelphia-2021-innovation-award-24/ Fri, 07 May 2021 17:34:12 -0400 The Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.

Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]

]]> 2df18f60fa25bcb33cc2f60d54213e90 Will Fenton started the topic CFP: Library Company of Philadelphia 2021 Innovation Award in the discussion TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/cfp-library-company-of-philadelphia-2021-innovation-award/ Fri, 07 May 2021 17:17:13 -0400 The Library Company of Philadelphia is delighted to welcome applications for its 2021 Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will recognize a project-digital or analog-that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship.

Proposals will be evaluated by a committee of leaders in higher education, research libraries,…[Read more]

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