Call for Proposals
Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.
A Poetry Conference and a Celebration
April 13-16, 2000
Sponsored by the English Department and Baker-Nord Humanities Center at
Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio
URL: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/armadillo/conhome.html
Due by: Tuesday, November 30, 1999
Celebrated Poets: Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell
A national committee of scholars and critics request proposals for
papers and panels considering the poetry and prose of Randall Jarrell,
Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell (either collectively or
individually). A highlight of the millennial National Poetry Month,
this conference will reconsider the impact of the three poets on
subsequent generations of poets, critics, and teachers. Some themes and
issues to be addressed might include:
Cultural Criticism in the Poetry
Modernism/Postmodernism
The "Taste of the Age": High and Low Culture
Childhood
Gender and Sexuality
Wars (Cold and Hot)
Religious Issues
Wit, Humor, Irony
Prosody
Influences on and by the Poets
Politics
The Public Role of the Intellectual
Race and Class
The Sister Arts
Travel
Love and Losses
Post-Freudian Approaches
Relations with Other Writers -- Prior and Contemporary
Legacy
Other topics, and especially interdisciplinary proposals, are welcome.
(One session will be held at the Cleveland Museum of Art specifically to
encourage papers on inter-arts issues.)
Proposals for 20-minute papers should be 250 words in length, and
submitted by November 30, 1999. Panel proposals should include a brief
abstract of the panel topic, plus no more than three paper proposals.
Please submit abstracts by e-mail when possible, or by mail or fax.
E-mail: armadillo@po.cwru.edu
Address:
Suzanne C. Ferguson
Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities
Chair, English Department
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7117
Phone: (216) 368-2217
Fax: (216) 368-2216
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