Proposals are sought for a member-organized session of the Association
of Canadian College and University Teachers of English in Edmonton,
Alberta, May 24-27, 2000. The call for papers follows:
Levinas and Literature
Following his death, and the praise heaped upon him in Jacques Derrida's
eulogy, the French philosopher and Jewish theologian Emmanuel Levinas
has attracted increasing attention from literary critics. As Robert
Eaglestone has shown, however, efforts to appropriate Levinas's ethics
and philosophy for literary criticism are embarassed by his profound
distrust of art and aesthetics.
This panel will address the relationship of Levinas's thought to
literary studies. Papes may therefore take one or more of the following
forms: theoretical treatments of Levinas's views on art, and
particularly literature; deployments of Levinas's ideas in original
analyses of literary works; explications or critiques of Levinas's own
analyses of literary works, such as his close and sympathetic reading of
Maurice Blanchot, or his provocative comments regarding Shakespearean
tragedy.
In keeping with ACCUTE guidelines, the following information must be
provided: three copies of papers or proposals, accompanied by three
copies of a 100-word abstract and a 50-word biographical sketch, as well
as an email attachment or disk copy.
Proposals should be 300-500 words in length, and should clearly indicate
the originality or the scholarly significance of the proposed paper, the
line of argument, the principal texts the paper will address, and the
relation of the paper to existing scholarship on the topic. Completed
papers should fulfill these criteria and be no longer than 12-13
double-spaced pages.
Please mail, fax or email the above by November 15, 1999 to:
Seán Lawrence
English Department
University of British Columbia
#397 - 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V5T 1Z1
fax (604) 222-1837
email seanlawrence@writeme.com
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