Category: Literature & Language
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CFP – D’Annunzio as World Literature at Toronto MLA (2021)
D’Annunzio as World Literature: Translation and Reception in the Wake of Decadence As recent studies have demonstrated, translation was crucial for the development of the decadent movement, which originated in France but soon found disciples across and beyond Europe. Among these was Gabriele d’Annunzio, a poet, modernist experimenter and political agitator whose larger-than-life persona […]
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MLA 2021: “Breaking the Fourth Wall: Experimental Theatre from Six Characters to Today”
The Pirandello Society of America is excited to annouce the call for abstract submissions for our sponsored panel at the next MLA Convention, to be held in Toronto (January 2021). Breaking the Fourth Wall: Experimental Theatre from Six Characters to Today 2021 MLA Convention, Toronto In recognition of the 100-year anniversary of the first […]
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Research Project: on the development and interaction of genre across literature, film, art, and games
I recently read James Malazita’s “The Material Undermining of Magical Feminism in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea” from Feminism in Play, which discusses how the limitations and intended uses of the Unreal Engine for BioShock Infinite made designing play as Elizabeth in her intended magical feminist fashion a relative impossibility. Malazita writes, “Propositional algorithms are […]
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KU Digital Humanities Forum 2019
The 9th Annual University of Kansas Digital Humanities Forum “Bodies | Justice | Futures” was held at KU on October 3 – 4, 2019. Opening Keynote: Janet Chávez Santiago, Oaxaca, Mexico, “Indigenous Language and Culture Visibility in the Digital Age: Examples from Zapotec Activism,” Oct. 3 Janet Chávez Santiago discussed the challenges and rewards of piloting […]
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Participatory 3D Poetry
Drawing from the traditions of Machine Generated Poetry, this project mobilizes Processing, and the 3D Poetry Tool created by Michiel Koelink, David Jonas, Jon Ritland and Mike Hambleton to compose, navigate, and interact with poems in 3D, which can be read and distributed in a 3D space enabling multi-structured shapes to create different modalities and possibilities of experiences. […]
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The Book of ‘Thugs’
‘The Book of Thugs’ is an interactive, transmedia art piece, under the Words Matter project conceptualized, developed, and installed by the Fashioning Circuits Lab of ATEC (The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas). Fashioning Circuits is a place where ‘critical-makers’ come together and both study and engage in scholarship, creative practice, and computational craft. […]
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How To Remake (i.e. Save) the History Major in 7 Steps
People often ask me how I might, for example, remake a college history major. Given the drastic decline in students majoring in or even taking history courses, it’s time to think about remaking history, not to train future professors of history (the replication model we are now in) but because history is a vital and […]
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PSA in conversation with Spurl Editions Press
William Weaver’s compelling translation of One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (Uno, nessuno centomila) was first published in 1990 and has since gone out of print, becoming increasingly difficult to find. But in October 2018, a new press based in California, Spurl Editions, re-issued Weaver’s translation, bringing the unforgettable voice and sometimes disturbing vision of […]
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Translating Sicilianness
In the PSA journal’s 31st edition the PSA editors asked a group of their contributors to talk about the ‘biggest issues facing translators’ of Pirandello. Amongst the numerous responses were two that dealt, crucially, with the ‘Sicilianness’ of Pirandello’s plays and the difficulties and possibilities that exist when one is translating out of such a […]
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Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction and Conclusion (Rebecca Uliasz)
This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — An accessible and elegant read, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media stakes out an ethical engagement with media history, plunging into deep time in […]