Contemporary Arabic Literature in Translation
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Described by Siegfried Kracauer as one of the outstanding film directors of the post-World War I era, Paul Leni (1885-1929) is a significant yet overlooked figure in the German and US cinemas of the silent period. A frequent collaborator with stage director Max Reinhardt, Leni worked as an art designer for some of the most prominent German directors of the time before coming into his own as a director. Creating both avant-garde and commercial films in Germany, Leni quickly became known for his captivatingly macabre productions. Critics and audiences alike praised these films, which were marked by elaborate set designs, innovative use of light and shadow, and adept storytelling abilities.
deadline for submissions: July 25th 2017Guest Editors: Sandra Cox and James M. Greene, Department of English and Modern Languages at Pittsburg State University
Contact E-mail: jmgreene@pittstate.edu and/or smcox@pittstate.edu
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In many ways, consent is considered a prerequisite to ethical interactions. A nonconsensual act is viewed as an affront, a violation, an oppression. As David Archard in Sexual Consent notes, the distinction between sexual consent and nonconsent marks “the difference between the permissibility and impermissibility of some practice or activity.”
Yet the notion of consent resists both simplistic definition and straightforward interpretation. “Consent is a contractual notion,” Michel Foucault states in an interview in Politics, Philosophy, Culture, and, thus, he purposefully pinpoints a core problem with consent: individuals in everyday interactions regularly obtain and give consent without explicit written or verbal contracts.
Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story
NeMLA 2018: Writers in Hollywood: Film and Imagined Communities of the Literary. In the 20th C, writers like Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Nathanael West went to Hollywood. As Chandler put it, they encountered a new industry of the literary where “little of worth their talent is allowed to achieve”. This session invites papers that explore colliding writing cultures, notions of the literary, adaptation, and movement across genre as writers successful in the novel, short story, essay, poem, etc. moved to screenplay, often a collaborative form, and to the “Hollywood system”.