CALL FOR PAPERS
The Modernist Studies Association
Panel/Seminar Proposal for New Modernisms II
(CON)TEXT
Duchamps Fountain, Schoenbergs tone rows, Dressers Toast Rack,
Eliots intertextual quotes ... the Modernist experiments of radically
altering, enhancing, or stripping away established contexts of created
or found works have had a profound effect on all subsequent forms of
art and literature in this century -- from Cages 433 to Serras
Tilted Arc to non-traditional theater casting. What have we learned
from these experiments about the limits of context? Where does text end
and context begin? Does changing a works context change only our
perceptions of the work or does it change the work as well? Can the
essential elements that define a work (to quote Nelson Goodman)
include elements outside that work? Is anything outside a work?
Please e-mail 1-2 page abstract by March 25, 2000 to Elizabeth Lyman:
edl2c@virginia.edu
ABOUT THE MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION
The recently founded Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the
study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual
contexts from the later 19th- to the mid- 20th century. The
organization aims to develop an international and interdisciplinary
forum to promote exchange among scholars in this revitalized and rapidly
changing field.
In its 1999 inaugural conference, described by The Chronicle of Higher
Education as "giving new life for modernism," the Modernist Studies
Association created a forum wherein scholars, poets, musicians and
artists could contribute to this ongoing revitalization. Modernist
studies is reemerging as a dynamic and complex field, hospitable to
interdisciplinary, international and multicultural approaches and
energized by recent work in race, class, gender and sexuality. "New
Modernisms II" convenes at the University of Pennsylvania (Oct. 12-15,
2000), and will incorporate the urban diversity of Philadelphia. Our
plenary sessions will emphasize the arts, and performance, but our call
for panel and seminar proposals remains open.
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