Archived Colloquies Colloquies found in this archive remain available for reading and remixing into My Colloquies. They no longer gather new material or accept submissions. Archived Colloquies Archived We, Reading, Now Curators Dalglish Chew Julie Orlemanski "We, Reading, Now" invites participants to rethink the status of critique in literary studies. We seek to explore three key areas of concern—collectivity, method, and temporality—raised by the contentious phrase "post-critical interpretation" and summarized in our title "We, Reading, Now." Archived Tropicalismo Fifty Years Later Curator Christopher Dunn Tropicália is the name of a cultural moment in late 1960s Brazil that was manifest in nearly all realms of artistic production, especially in popular music, but also the visual arts, theater, film and literature. Archived Thing Theory in Literary Studies Curators Sarah Wasserman Patrick Moran This Colloquy highlights innovative work situated at the intersection of literary and material culture studies. Thinking about the agency of things alongside our own has raised a series of ontological concerns that cross disciplinary boundaries. But literature, which can interrogate things as they are and as they might be, has the capacity to point in new directions. Archived The Right to the Creative City Curators Michael B. Kahan Peggy Phelan How has the creative city paradigm transformed both contemporary cities and artistic production? How have marginalized communities asserted their right to the city by deploying creativity in new ways? Archived The Nature of Literary Being Curator Nancy Ruttenburg Are characters in novels more than verbal representations of individuals or collective subjects? Archived The Classics Which Is (Not) Ours Curators Emily Greenwood Boris Shoshitaishvili We have framed this collection of writing about ancient Greek and Roman literature around the contrary idea of the "Greece which is (not) ours" in an attempt to capture the dynamic and creative tensions that arise when doing classical scholarship in full awareness of the different ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have constructed ancient Greece and Rome in their own image. Archived Queer Environmentalities Curator Irena Yamboliev How can queer theory and ecocriticism inform each other? And why should they? Archived Prosody: Alternative Histories Curators Eric Weiskott Natalie Gerber What are the historical stakes of prosody, and why should we ask? ‘Prosody’ refers both to the patterning of language in poetry and to the formal study of that patterning. Archived Poetry after Language Curators Marijeta Bozovic Walt Hunter The diverse practices associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school of poetry marked a shift—or a return to avant-garde practices and leftist politics—in American poetry in the 1970s. Archived Personification and Allegory: Selves and Signs Curator Vladimir Brljak What has allegory to do with personification, and personification with allegory? Archived Modernism's Unfinished Business? Curator Rey Chow On modernism's problematic legacy of form and de-formation. Archived Locating Contemporary Asian American Poetry Curator Brian Reed Archived Critical Semantics: New Transnational Keywords Curator Anston Bosman This Colloquy arises from a 2018 MLA Convention session extending and critiquing Roland Greene's Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. In this Colloquy, authors have selected a transcultural keyword from the early modern period, setting it in conversation with Five Words. Archived Animals, Animacy, and the Moving Image Curator Moira Weigel Animals attract moving images. They always have. Animals flapped and galloped around the zootropes, bioscopes, phenakistoscopes, and other proto-cinematic toys of the mid-nineteenth century. They left ghostly traces on Jules Étienne-Marey’s chronophotographs and strode across the grids of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies. Archived Americans in Paris Curator Natalia Cecire There is perhaps something perverse in returning to Paris in a moment of transnational studies that has aimed to diminish the metropolitan center’s hold on critical attention. Yet the case of Americans in Paris in particular offers insight into the gravitational interactions between empires . . . Archived 21st-Century Marxisms Curator Adam Morris Recent efforts in Marxist theory attempt to understand the origins of today’s debt- and finance-based economy, without neglecting its social and cultural aspects.
Archived We, Reading, Now Curators Dalglish Chew Julie Orlemanski "We, Reading, Now" invites participants to rethink the status of critique in literary studies. We seek to explore three key areas of concern—collectivity, method, and temporality—raised by the contentious phrase "post-critical interpretation" and summarized in our title "We, Reading, Now."
Archived Tropicalismo Fifty Years Later Curator Christopher Dunn Tropicália is the name of a cultural moment in late 1960s Brazil that was manifest in nearly all realms of artistic production, especially in popular music, but also the visual arts, theater, film and literature.
Archived Thing Theory in Literary Studies Curators Sarah Wasserman Patrick Moran This Colloquy highlights innovative work situated at the intersection of literary and material culture studies. Thinking about the agency of things alongside our own has raised a series of ontological concerns that cross disciplinary boundaries. But literature, which can interrogate things as they are and as they might be, has the capacity to point in new directions.
Archived The Right to the Creative City Curators Michael B. Kahan Peggy Phelan How has the creative city paradigm transformed both contemporary cities and artistic production? How have marginalized communities asserted their right to the city by deploying creativity in new ways?
Archived The Nature of Literary Being Curator Nancy Ruttenburg Are characters in novels more than verbal representations of individuals or collective subjects?
Archived The Classics Which Is (Not) Ours Curators Emily Greenwood Boris Shoshitaishvili We have framed this collection of writing about ancient Greek and Roman literature around the contrary idea of the "Greece which is (not) ours" in an attempt to capture the dynamic and creative tensions that arise when doing classical scholarship in full awareness of the different ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have constructed ancient Greece and Rome in their own image.
Archived Queer Environmentalities Curator Irena Yamboliev How can queer theory and ecocriticism inform each other? And why should they?
Archived Prosody: Alternative Histories Curators Eric Weiskott Natalie Gerber What are the historical stakes of prosody, and why should we ask? ‘Prosody’ refers both to the patterning of language in poetry and to the formal study of that patterning.
Archived Poetry after Language Curators Marijeta Bozovic Walt Hunter The diverse practices associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school of poetry marked a shift—or a return to avant-garde practices and leftist politics—in American poetry in the 1970s.
Archived Personification and Allegory: Selves and Signs Curator Vladimir Brljak What has allegory to do with personification, and personification with allegory?
Archived Modernism's Unfinished Business? Curator Rey Chow On modernism's problematic legacy of form and de-formation.
Archived Critical Semantics: New Transnational Keywords Curator Anston Bosman This Colloquy arises from a 2018 MLA Convention session extending and critiquing Roland Greene's Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. In this Colloquy, authors have selected a transcultural keyword from the early modern period, setting it in conversation with Five Words.
Archived Animals, Animacy, and the Moving Image Curator Moira Weigel Animals attract moving images. They always have. Animals flapped and galloped around the zootropes, bioscopes, phenakistoscopes, and other proto-cinematic toys of the mid-nineteenth century. They left ghostly traces on Jules Étienne-Marey’s chronophotographs and strode across the grids of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies.
Archived Americans in Paris Curator Natalia Cecire There is perhaps something perverse in returning to Paris in a moment of transnational studies that has aimed to diminish the metropolitan center’s hold on critical attention. Yet the case of Americans in Paris in particular offers insight into the gravitational interactions between empires . . .
Archived 21st-Century Marxisms Curator Adam Morris Recent efforts in Marxist theory attempt to understand the origins of today’s debt- and finance-based economy, without neglecting its social and cultural aspects.
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