<center>***CALL FOR PAPERS***
The Graduate Association of French Students at Yale University presents
a Graduate Student Conference :
Dead Ends / Impasses et Apories
an interdisciplinary perspective in French and Francophone Studies
March 26-27, Yale University
* Keynote speaker - Thomas Pavel *
**PLEASE NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED FROM
JANUARY 5 TO JANUARY 22, 1998**
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why do we remember Voltaire as a philosopher, and not as an epic poet?=20
whatever happened to n=E9gritude? what if the Ve R=E9publique had come
crashing down in May 1968? do you know anyone who speaks Esperanto?
when is an impasse a dead end, and when does it take us beyond the
known? utopias, failed revolutions, unfinished novels, universal
language projects, millenarian movements ... failure is a fact of
culture. visionaries before their times, should-be classics that
fizzle, canonical texts that "lose" their relevance - what can we learn
by studying the dark side of the canon?=20
at the edge of the millennium, we ask what might have been, and why it
wasn't. what can literary failures and cultural misfires tell us about
literary and cultural success stories? =20
please submit paper abstracts of 150-300 words
from medieval to modern / english or french
deadline for submissions is January 22, 1999
send submissions to:
Yale French Department
82-90 Wall St.
New Haven, CT 06520
attn: Grad Conference Committee
electronic submissions (text only):
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Katherine A. Collin
Yale University, Department of French
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