Call for Papers for MLA special session 1999
(December 27-30, Chicago, Ill.):
***Gertrude Stein: 125 Years of Continued Presence***
Gertrude Stein's 125th anniversary calls upon us to reevaluate how
present, relevant, and worthwhile Steins theoretical and literary work
still is in our continued interrogation of cultural production. Stein
herself claimed to have generated the Twentieth Century by "writing for
strangers" and for herself. Many of the obvious Modernists during her
lifetime, and also later, have labelled Stein the Mother of Modernism,
acknowledging thereby the impact of her work on identifying and sustaining
their own practice. But how true is Stein's claim really? How much of a
lasting impact have Steins political aesthetics, or aesthetic politics,
made on other artists besides the obvious Modernists, or on other
Modernists besides the obvious artists? This panel seeks to explore a
range of literary, filmic, political, and other responses to her work and
the ways in which they invite us to reconceive Stein's continued presence
at the end of the 20th century.
Please submit 250-word abstracts to
Sonja Streuber
Department of English
University of California
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
or as e-mail attachments in *text-only* format to shstreuber@ucdavis.edu
Extended (but final) Deadline: March 10, 1999.
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Sonja H. Streuber shstreuber@ucdavis.edu
Editor, _time sense_: a quarterly on the art of Gertrude Stein_
http://www.tenderbuttons.com
Department of English * U of California * 1 Shields Ave. * Davis, CA 95616
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