Knowledge Commons | Rudy Le Menthéour | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/ethernaute/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Rudy Le Menthéour is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1bdead3d7f08d62a859401afc3a2cc4b Pamela Phillips started the topic Deadline Extended -- CFP for 2 18thC panels at MLA 2027 in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-for-2-18thc-panels-at-mla-2027-2/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:26:56 -0400 Please consider submitting a proposal for either of the following 2027 MLA panels in eighteenth-century comparative studies (CLCS 18th-Century).

Panel: Places and Traces: Eighteenth-Century Networks and Neighborhoods

Inspired by Los Angeles as a city of neighborhoods and networks of missions that characterize California, this panel seeks…[Read more]

]]> 581408ae5e56b12aeda538a7a4bb81eb Pamela Phillips started the topic Deadline Extended -- CFP for 2 18thC panels at MLA 2027 in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-for-2-18thc-panels-at-mla-2027/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:23:23 -0400 Please consider submitting a proposal for either of the following 2027 MLA panels in eighteenth-century comparative studies (CLCS 18th-Century).

]]> 8e646852be0f66072e7b5d29cb27fc9b Danielle Spratt replied to the topic CFP CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2027 in Los Angeles in the forum CLCS 18th-Century via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/cfp-clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2027-in-los-angeles/#post-1040912 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:56:59 -0500 [heart] Spratt, Danielle L reacted to your message:

]]> 86feba6d25250275526ea429e17206c7 Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2027 in Los Angeles in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/cfp-clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2027-in-los-angeles/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:47:23 -0500 Dear Forum Members:

The MLA Eighteenth-Century Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Forum [CLCS 18th-Century] is accepting proposals to the following guaranteed sessions at the MLA 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles.

For both sessions, please send a 200-word abstract and brief CV to pamela.phillips1@upr.edu by March 20, 2026.

Please…[Read more]

]]> 7ede33aeabe52948ed4d23eac2a70e9c Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:44:07 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

 

]]> 944ed7d9abd7282e209ae80230667e1b Philip Trotter uploaded the file: MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing” to CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1939950/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:35:51 -0500 Abstract and details for MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

]]> 0 9b86b0335629a13c5d77407cda471e6b Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:48:46 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

Date: September 29 - October 2, 2025

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2025

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Subject Field: Narratology

Since Roland Barthes' formula “international, transhistorical, transcultural, narration is there, like life i…[Read more]

]]> acb76370ab72d18339c580c8e87aa82a Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:45:48 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN)

September 29 - October 2, 2025, Wuppertal, Germany

 

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…[Read more]

]]> 3caf98fe3af4b0f34ce3d7bb50dc294e Stefania Irene Sini started the topic CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th ENN International Conference in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-limits-of-narrative-8th-enn-international-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:41:11 -0500 CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025

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 ded…[Read more]

]]> ae75f7ca50e6ca77f05bc94367adca5e Pamela Phillips started the topic CLCS–18 Sessions at the MLA 2026 in Toronto CFP in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/clcs-18-sessions-at-the-mla-2026-in-toronto-cfp-2/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:11:46 -0500  

 

The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies–18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed sessions:

Comparative Liberties

The concept of liberty in the eighteenth century underwent significant development, particularly through the Enlightenment, which challenged existing ideas about g…[Read more]

]]> 26d12671e6dbd2e3ec96da6e4e03152e Ian Balfour started the topic Self-nomination for this committee in the forum TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/self-nomination-for-this-committee/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:43:01 -0500 <div>

The Philosophy and Literature Forum Executive Committee solicits self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, starting in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly e…[Read more]

]]> 15a228f9a5710edec19d8ffa0a709ba2 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:43:17 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 49a34afa92822a05df006168e57ae42c Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889767/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:02:18 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 1027fdb9a09a284718242aa9978c8c26 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889378/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:47 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 8207cd29ddd7fbcf5f8a30183de6c575 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888751/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:01:07 -0400 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 122c371ef70ff9126ebe49b97e65f8dc Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887843/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:02:13 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b536600b6f17de30dfd92188cf3539e Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887554/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:01:31 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b6f994ac008bdf06a3edab3bb11295b Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/MARX/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886476/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:03:56 -0400 Exploration on the linkages among the modes of discourse and presentation in Hgel, Marx and Peirce
with a view to inferring a common dialectical tendency in their inquiries.

]]> 0 9dc606866d465d22fd8e29d643e5ba25 Eugenia Zuroski started the topic MLA 2025/CLCS 18th CFP — New Methods in 18th-C Comp Lit in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/mla-2025-clcs-18th-cfp-new-methods-in-18th-c-comp-lit/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:18:08 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading

It has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical r…[Read more]

]]> a5d6ca3e69e217f9585a9441415aa667 Epifanio San Juan deposited HEGEL/PEIRCE in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876760/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:02:28 -0500 Speculative notes on the relation between Peirce's pragmatist method and Hegel's dialectics

]]> 0 16ac8849aeb73c4fee9459202db1bbf6 Sarah Benharrech started the topic MLA 18th century French Forum dinner on Saturday January 6th at 8:00pm in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/mla-18th-century-french-forum-dinner-on-saturday-january-6th-at-800pm/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:25:09 -0500 Dear MLA members and 18th century enthusiasts,

You are invited to attend the 18c French Forum dinner on Saturday, January 6th at 8:00pm. 

The dinner will take place at Caribou Café (1126 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107), which is a short walk from the PA Convention Center and the Downtown Marriott.  The chef, Olivier Desaintmar…[Read more]

]]> 656172e172d5381ea81fb674543c5049 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/new-article-angela-carters-adaptations-of-the-ashputtle-story-2/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:21:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We recently published an article titled as "Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story" in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]

]]> 5259f29a118de90da155e3c09a3130df Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866780/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:00:20 -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 f063fc97b6e134474d0f05e0dc99722b Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866464/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:00:14 -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 1b5b85e5dccc3a05c852b8f33b2cbe4f Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864249/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:02:13 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 4e4bac3cef040facb17a850eb066033f Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863982/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:03:14 -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 17d4c153e34b21ba170b19c3fe81eb25 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 18th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century-french/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-20/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:00:39 -0400 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]

]]> ade2c3b0d4a8a202eabc696c42d54ffb Sarah Benharrech started the topic Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/assistant-professor-of-french-at-the-university-of-tennessee-at-knoxville/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:19:46 -0400 The Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee flagship campus in Knoxville is seeking applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in early modern French studies, with a focus on the 18th century, to begin August 1, 2024. To broaden our programs, innovative and…[Read more]

]]> da851da4cbd29344ff94fe9c3f867439 Jacob Jewusiak deposited Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Introduction) in the group TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855421/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:22:35 -0400 Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 10acc136be933117ff966ddd49f375bf Tracy Rutler posted an update in the group CLCS 18th-Century: CFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia There is still time to submit […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1836906/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:06:58 -0500 CFP: 2024 MLA in Philadelphia

There is still time to submit a proposal for these three panels organized by the LLC 18th-century France (including one non-guaranteed panel co-organized with LLC 17th-century France)!

France in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
This panel invites contributions on the intersections between France and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4db904e0d0a4292bfbd21a8cd1fb52d9 Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group CLCS 18th-Century: Reminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1836682/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:00:42 -0500 Reminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more]

]]> 0 b874d6ae5994634051346d2d8e09a415 Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/rhythm-speed-path-spatiotemporal-experiences-in-narrative-poetry-and-drama-2/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:03:03 -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]

]]> 8309d92c8af6175deba01840a27bf482 David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 24 -- New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-24-new-methods-in-18th-century-comparative-and-cross-cultural-reading/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:29:05 -0500 It has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]

]]> 67771bb9e9823d5471c2519f4afb56ac David Alff started the topic CFP MLA 2024 -- Comparative Media Histories in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-comparative-media-histories/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:04:59 -0500 Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]

]]> 74698138c1f4df19ba60c728affafaf5 Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830070/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:26:35 -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 c18513bf2d8fea52f85d7c4fd0fba1fa Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829950/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:34:33 -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 3d2667e1bc38f5b4869b47c58777ea18 Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829947/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:27:00 -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 1afaf446f3b1184b071885ab5ae8f2ad Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities-and-health-studies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-54/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:32:58 -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]

]]> 6c4526dcbf385908a3f111a99560e5b3 Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or Assistant Professor of Medieval and Iberian Studies, Spanish, UVA in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/associate-or-assistant-professor-of-medieval-and-iberian-studies-spanish-uva/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 21:21:10 -0500 We’re hiring! Please spread the news about our search for a colleague in early modern or medieval Iberian Studies, at the rank of assistant or associate professor (tenure-track or tenured). Position description and application information are available h…[Read more]

]]> 22debf9b39f65b3920d3b1de618e7e06 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817370/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 03:53:38 -0400 In Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]

]]> 0 6333cbc19dbfc19445be3c864dfbbd2e Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe's Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/philosophy-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-musical-responses-to-goethes-works-asecs-st-louis-march-9-11-2023/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:19:37 -0400 Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’m a disabled independent scholar with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote diversity in German Studies, insofar as…[Read more]

]]> cfa659d030be23605e863e1e681f3b24 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788303/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:50:01 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 279af60531cc161a89853ea2c115f424 Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1781466/ Thu, 12 May 2022 03:49:09 -0400 In this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]

]]> 0 4db2f4dbe2107d162cab4c9c5e23637b Stephen E. Lewis deposited "Philosopher d'une manière 'mariale': Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon" in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774230/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:48:43 -0500 A review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon's book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).

]]> 0 0c027a044d121d3314214e172171700d David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP -- Race, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking 18c Studies in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/mla-2023-cfp-race-temporality-and-periodization-rethinking-18c-studies/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:45:34 -0500 Race, Temporality, and Periodization: Rethinking 18th-Century Studies (Roundtable) The “eighteenth century” named and analyzed by eighteenth-century studies has proven pliable in the figuration of the “long eighteenth century.” But to what extent does the persistent attachment to this historic period—even an elongated version of it—preclud…[Read more]

]]> f532bbeddce0896e61c0a1467bdd17fe David Alff started the topic MLA 2023 CFP -- Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17c-18c World in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/mla-2023-cfp-anglo-dutch-exchanges-in-the-17c-18c-world/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:43:32 -0500 Anglo-Dutch Exchanges in the 17-18c World (CFP, MLA 2023)
How did two nations separated by ninety miles of salt water establish rival patterns of resource extraction, settler conquest, capital finance, and maritime logistics that came to govern life the world over? This roundtable addresses the global impress of Anglo-Dutch relations in the 1600 a…[Read more]

]]> 9a2acab412d474292fc41783faafa34a Carol Chiodo deposited Hitting the Mark. Projectile Motion and the 'segno lieto' in Dante's Commedia in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1772158/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:31:46 -0500 This essay explores Dante Alighieri's notion of projectile motion in relation to spiritual fulfillment in the first canto of Paradiso. The notion of impetus, or projectile motion, stood at the confluence of Greek philosophical rationality (mediated by a substantial Arabic corpus) and Christian thought, and it provides a unique window through…[Read more]

]]> 0 b888b2998dac70bd4f3f64e269da5490 Carol Chiodo deposited Tutti i frutti. The Fruits of Treachery and the Roots of the Soul in Inferno 33 in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1772155/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:26:06 -0500 This chapter examines the plight of Fra' Alberigo in light of philosophical questions of personal identity and embodiment. I argue that Fra' Alberigo's individuality and his punishment in Tolomea provides insight into Dante's unique interpretation of the complex relationship between body and spirit and the issue of material continuity in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea0e346705fe6d8a31b46772bb65c2a6 Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group TC Philosophy and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769036/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:11:21 -0500 The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic's role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater's “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee's “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]

]]> 0 44cbe33e59dd204377a6693cf54233be Emily Friedman deposited "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768609/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:29:39 -0500 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

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