LANDSCAPE AND LITERATURE: THE INTEGRAL RELATIONSHIP OF
NATURAL AND LITERARY IMAGES
Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
Chicago 4-6 November 1999
Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 22 March 1999
The focus for this session grew out of a graduate seminar
which I organized based on the ways in which the Brontes
and Thomas Hardy were affected by the landscape in which
they grew up (all living most of their lives within a few
miles of their birthplace). I was struck with how the
Yorkshire and Dorset countryside became an integral part of
their philosophies--and how these natural images are
reconstructed in their texts. This focus provided a new
"way into" their novels and poems.
I want to enlarge this focus to incorporate other authors
and geographic regions. Perhaps there are historical or
cultural contexts that influence the ways in which
imaginative writers amalgamate their natural surroundings
into their texts. Papers open to any author, any period,
though I acknowledge a particular interest in
Nineteenth-century texts.
Abstracts only (500 words) by March 22.
JoAnna S. Mink
Department of English, MSU 53
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56002-8400
joanna.mink@mankato.msus.edu
FAX 507-389-5362
Note that MMLA policies are that participants be current
members of MMLA and pay conference registration fee by June
15; completed papers must be submitted to MMLA for
duplication by August 30.
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JoAnna S. Mink
Professor of English
Minnesota State University, Mankato
joanna.mink@Mankato.MSUS.EDU
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