CFP: Medieval/ Postmodern Intersections (11/15; collection) On May 28 and 29, 1999, McMaster University hosted a conference entitled "Intersections: Medieval & Postmodern Forms, Theory & Semiotics." Those two days witnessed a wide-ranging investigation of rich intra-cultural and inter-cultural relations among the arts, sciences, philosophies, theologies and social lives of the two eras. We are now collecting 8-10 additional essays to round out a selection of the conference papers for publication in an anthology on intersections between writers and thinkers from the Middle Ages and the Postmodern era. We are less interested in straightforward treatments of medieval cultural artifacts from a postmodern theoretical standpoint than in the ways artists and thinkers important for postmodernism have used and been influenced by medieval material. Our volume *[that] aims at illustrating some of the many possible relations between two very diverse periods.

From: Anne Savage (savage@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 16:56:59 EDT

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     Therefore we welcome essays whose rigorous attention to interpretation
     anchors broad investigations into the cultural thought of the two periods,
     and careful consideration of the nature and purposes of the
     transhistorical, trans-cultural relation posited.
     
     You may wish to investigate some of the kinds of transhistorical relations
     explored at the conference:
     
     Parallels/ repetition/ common themes (What accounts for seemingly
     unrelated patterns of resemblance?)
     
     Reading the Medieval by the Postmodern (What possibilities of
     illumination emerge by studying the Middle Ages from postmodern
     perspectives? How are these used and why?)
     
     Reading the Postmodern reading the Medieval (causal influence, individual
     or generic: persisting forms/ retrospective appropriation of
     medievalisms/ agonistic struggle)
     
     Questions of periodization in these areas.
     
     
     
     
     Papers will be due by November 15th, 2000. Please send inquiries,
     abstracts or papers to:                        Full Information at
                        http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
              or write Erika Lin:

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