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Modern Language Association
Overview
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. The MLA aims to "strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature". The organization includes over 20,000 members in 100 countries, primarily academic scholars, professors, and graduate students who study or teach language and literature, including English, other modern languages, and comparative literature. Although founded in the United States, with offices in New York City, the MLA's membership, concerns, reputation, and influence are international in scope.
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Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but I must confess that I view with alarm the theory that language is merely a means of communication, and not also a vehicle of beauty. This tendency is world-wide, but naturally it has advanced in America. In a more or less authoritative book published by the Children’s Foundation,[1] I find some remarks on the teaching of English which seem to exemplify the tendency I deplore. For…
Bertrand Russell, Education and the good life
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Further background studies may be found in _The Cambridge History of English Literature_, Cambridge and New York, 1912-1914, VIII-XI, and _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, New York, 1917, Vol. I. See also the more up-to-date bibliographies in P. Smith's _A History of Modern Culture_, New York, 1934, II, 647-76; R. S. Crane's _A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800_, New York, 1932, pp. 1115-42; and…
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
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"Instead of that purely practical method of instruction by which the teacher accustoms his pupils to severe self-discipline in their own language, we find everywhere the rudiments of a historico-scholastic method of teaching the mother-tongue: that is to say, people deal with it as if it were a dead language and as if the present and future were under no obligations to it whatsoever. The historical method has become…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the Future of our Educational Institutions
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Philosophers who discussed Modern Language Association
- Edmund Burke
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Judith Butler
- Avital Ronell
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Walter J. Ong
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