ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (1 July 2024)

June 24, 2024

Each week, we collect the articles that we posted in the last week and put them all in one place, right here on the blog. So no worries if you missed an article we posted to Facebook, X/Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram and/or LinkedIn.

Here they are, In Case You Missed It:

Promotional tile featuring cover art from the new edition of MLN and the text: MLN Forum Translators Reimagine Literary Citizenship in the Academy 10 scholars 9 articles 1 blog Open access thru March 2025

MLN Forum: Translators Reimagine Literary Citizenship in the Academy

Eleni Theodoropoulos and Bradley Harmon

MLN
Volume 138, Number 5, December 2023

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem?

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025

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“A series of mere household events”: Poe’s “The
Black Cat,” Domesticity, and Pet-Keeping in
Nineteenth-Century America

Heidi Hanrahan

Poe Studies
Volume 45, Number 1, 2012

Poe’s actual “Black Cat” was a beloved family pet, immortalized in his classic tale of murder and madness — and summoning questions about domesticity’s capacity for containing darker desires

Read free in Poe Studies thru 12 July

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T. S. Eliot's Autobiographical Cats

Henry Hart

Sewanee Review
Volume 120, Number 3, Summer 2012

In a 2012 piece for Sewanee Review, Henry Hart explores the fascinating history of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, revealing the classic poems as highly autobiographical

Read free thru 12 July

Promotional tile featuring the cover art from the 1994 issue of Children's Literature, a figure from the article ("Pusscatkin and the Pumpkin." Text by Brown, by permission of the Estate of Margaret Wise Brown; illustration by Garth Williams, by permission) and the text: Cat-Quest: A Symbolic Animal in Margaret Wise Brown, Read free thru 12 July

Cat-Quest: A Symbolic Animal in Margaret Wise Brown

Suzanne Rahn

Children's Literature
Volume 22, 1994

Cat characters are mulitivalent across children’s literature, but exist in a cat-egory of their own in the work of Margaret Wise Brown, says Suzanne Rahn

Explore fascinating feline representation more deeply, free in Children's Literature thru 12 July