[Comedias] FW: [GEMELA] FW: please send this message to all early modern Hispanists about MLA reorganization

[comedias at comedias.org]

I will write on behalf of Comedia Performance, but we should all write.

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> On Jan 25, 2014, at 2:30 PM, "comedias at comedias.org" <comedias at comedias.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> Please share this info with your email lists of members, subscribers, etc.
>
> The MLA intent to merge the 2 early modern Spanish divisions (drama and
> poetry/prose) is pretty hard to find but I hope it can be forestalled.  If
> you go to the web page http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/, you have to
> scroll all the way down to Paragraph 108(!!)  And then, click within the box
> at the right to see the comments on  paragraph 108 .  There you will see
> that Marianne Hirsch has proposed:
> "Note that a split of periods along genre lines is unique to Spanish among
> languages represented in the MLA. If these two 16th and 17th century Spanish
> forums agree to merge, they can have 4 guaranteed sessions for the next five
> years. "
>
>
> Only a very few of us have replied (objected) because this drastic proposal
> is so well hidden -- placed in the comments rather than in the body of the
> proposal.
>
>
> Looking at the comments section, note that no such proposal was made to
> merge 16th century French and 17th century French - 2 fields with
> considerably fewer members, journals, organizations, etc.
>
> And in regards to English: Margaret Ferguson reported in the comment
> section:
> Members made very clear objections to any amalgamations of divisions
> organized by historical period during the period between 1600 and 1837.
> There are currently 12 guaranteed sessions for MLA divisions of English
> Literature focusing on the years between 1600 and 1837: these divisions are
> devoted to Shakespeare, the 16th c., the 17th c., the Restoration and Early
> 18th c....   There are in addition  guaranteed sessions for topics in this
> period through its rich set of Allied Organizations:   the Marlowe Society,
> the International Spenser Society, the Donne Society, the Society of Early
> Modern Women,  the Renaissance English Text Society, the Milton Society ...
>
>
>
> The deadline for comments is imminent, so please voice your opinion  soon.
>
>
> --
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