CFP: Robert Penn Warren and Postmodernism (9/15; NEMLA, 3/30/01-3/31/01)

From: Anthony E. Szczesiul (Anthony_Szczesiul@uml.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 13:13:11 EDT

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    Call for Papers: "Robert Penn Warren and Postmodernism." Panel to be
    held at the
    Northeast Modern Language Association convention in Hartford (March
    30-31, 2001).

    Deadline for paper proposals: September 15, 2000

    For his association with the New Criticism, as well as for his early
    alliance with the conservative Agrarian writers of the South, some might
    dismiss Robert Penn Warren as a right wing defender of the old guard of
    American poetry. However, by the time he published his 1966 essay "A
    Plea in Mitigation: Modern Poetry and the End of an Era," Warren could
    proclaim that both Modernism and the New Criticism were definitely
    dead. To what extent does Warren enter into the Postmodern era through
    his later poetic texts? Any approach related to this topic is welcome:
    papers may focus on individual poems and volumes, may take a comparative
    approach with another poet, or may consider broader issues such as
    Warren's legacy and the canon.

    Please send 1-2 page abstracts by September 15 to:

    Anthony Szczesiul
    English Department
    61 Wilder Street, Suite 3
    University of Massachusetts--Lowell
    Lowell, MA 01854

    or e-mail to:
    anthony_szczesiul@uml.edu

    For more information about NEMLA, see
    http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla/
    Participants in the convention must be members of NEMLA by November 1,
    2000.

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