CFP: Literature, Media & Information in the 19th Century (3/15/01; MLA '01)

From: Richard Menke (rmenke@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 11:10:50 EST

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Proposed special session,
    MLA 2001 (New Orleans, 12/27-12/30/01)

    The Information Super-Railway. Literary and cultural relations of the
    nineteenth century's media and information systems: penny post, photograph,
    electric telegraph, phonograph, motion picture, bureaucracy, and so on.
    Literature in the nineteenth-century media ecology.

    Possible topics might include:

      --the telegraph, the telephone, and the problem of telepistemology

      --nineteenth-century remediations of older cultural forms

      --discourse networks in the cultural field (Kittler meets Bourdieu?)

      --literature in relation to the gathering, processing, and transmission
    of knowledge

    Please send proposals and brief vitae by Mar. 15, 2001, to

      rmenke@arches.uga.edu

    OR

      Richard Menke
      Department of English
      Park Hall 254
      University of Georgia
      Athens, GA 30602-6205

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