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• Title: Adjusting the Scale of Values: The Modern Language Association of Ontario, 1886-1919 (Organization Overview)
• Author : English Studies in Canada
• Release Date : January 01, 2007
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 249 KB

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THE BIRTH OF AN ORGANIZATION, LIKE THE BIRTH OF STAR, is a bright illusion of origin: we gaze across time and space to witness an apparent event, a seemingly founding moment. Of course, the disciplinary or stellar body is in fact not new at all, rather the compression of diffuse molecular clouds, first set in motion and now (that is to say, then), fused, for a time. But such "founding" events inevitably attract our gaze, no matter how often we have heard the well-founded cautions against teleologies and their obverse. We seek evidence of our birth and hints of a future fate. The organization whose establishment and history are considered here arguably could be considered a precursor to the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE); it is indisputably a counterpart to the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). Interestingly, however, its early years have more thorough documentation than the surprisingly scanty records of the sister organization to the south. (1) The detailed minute books of the Modern Language Association of Ontario (MLAO), the many newspaper accounts of the annual meetings, its publications in educational journals and in pamphlet form, and the information provided by reminiscences and archived personal papers of some key members permit a reconstruction of this vital organization. 2 What emerges is one narrative of the development of "English" in and through the discipline of modern languages (a less-familiar disciplinary story than that of the paradigmatic relationship of English to History, or of the late nineteenth-century supplanting of classics by vernacular language study). The MLAO records also evidence a conscious, Canadian attempt to bridge the seemingly divergent "specialized" and "general" (or "research" and "liberal arts") educational mandates which were elsewhere dividing the North American academy by the twentieth-century's turn (Radway 204-06). (3) A secondary purpose of this essay is to catalogue the MLAO's role as a clearinghouse for early literary-critical work in English Canada and to make both the details and the extent of that scholarship visible for others interested in Canadian disciplinary or intellectual history. A bibliography of almost three hundred scholarly papers presented to the MLAO, giving print locations where the item achieved publication and precis of oral presentations when such information is available from the minute books or other sources, accompanies this article: see "Papers and Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ontario, to 1919: A Chronological Listing" on the English Studies in Canada website.

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