CFP: Objectivism (3/19/01; MLA '01)

From: Ruth Jennison (ruthj@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 04 2001 - 17:56:44 EST

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    A panel to be proposed for 2001 MLA Convention in New Orleans, LA, December
    37-30, 2001.

    "Things Reflected as Wills Subjected": Objectivists Speak

    The voice of the animated commodity in Louis Zukofsky's "A"-9 poses a
    challenge to extant theories of modernist forms of agency, political/poetic
    praxis, and reification. More broadly, Objectivism offers new sites for
    reworking our understandings of the subject of capital/modernity,
    mediation, periodization, alienation, literary "value," commitment and
    genre. This panel seeks papers that explore the ways in which the
    Objectivists (Zukofksy, Reznikoff, Oppen, Rakosi et al) require the
    transformation of our critical approaches. Localized readings/meditations,
    historical and comparative analyses, psychoanalytic and Marxist accounts
    all eagerly invited.

    Please send a one page abstract with a
    c.v. (c.v. not absolutely necessary though preferred) by March 20, 2001 to:

    Ruth Jennison
    Department of English
    U.C.Berkeley
    322 Wheeler Hall
    Berkeley, CA 94720

    or via email to:
    ruthj@uclink4.berkeley.edu

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