UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INSTITUTE OF
ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
Advance Notice and Call for Papers
The Lyric
15-17 November 2001
An International Conference
Where is the lyric now? Always connected with the forms and rhythms of
particular life, as with the Greek modes of music and dance, it has
survived from pre-literate to literate societies (and to post-literate
ones too). Anthropologically rather than historically, lyric crosses
boundaries between non-literate and highly literate forms of society. One
of the prime characteristics of lyric is its verticality, complicated
(in the last hundred years) by poetry that combines lyric with other
types of material. Lyric has also had to enter into dark places, and confront degradations of language and ethical life. Are ways
of fitting words to music, and the forms of subjectivity that accompanied
them, still useful models of the lyric? And, in more epistemological terms, does the
verticality of lyric stillhold in the age of electronic images? Has the 'inner life' been invaded?
Do poets still write lyric? And does it speak to our necessities?
Organising Committee:
Professor William Rowe (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Professor Anne Janowitz (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Dr Michael Baron (IES Conference Programme Co-ordinator, and Birkbeck
College)
Dr Stephen Regan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Professor Jerome J. McGann (Royal Holloway AND University of Virginia)
Professor Heather Dubrow (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Professor John Roe (University of York [UK])
Conference Venue and Enquiries:
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd
Floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No smoking building)
Tel: 020 7862 8675, Fax: 020 7862 8672 email: ies@sas.ac.uk
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