NYU Modernism Conference
Jonathan Culler Keynote Speaker
Conference:
This conference centers on ways of reading modernism. Each
panel focuses on a distinct methodology or approach to looking at
Modernist works. Not limited to graduate students.
Conference Format:
Papers will not be read in the panels but will be submitted at least
one month prior to the conference and posted on our website for reading
before arrival.
Panelists will bring 1-2 page handouts (which can be a
synopsis, a diagram, a list of bullet points, a series of important
quotations) to be distributed at panel discussions. Each participant
will have ten minutes to present his or her work, and panel leaders
will lead a discussion between members.
Panel:
"Modernist Time and Its Futures"
There are many ways in which (and reasons why) modernist writers
attempt to construct different kinds temporality within their texts.
These texts often involve a radical reimagining or reconceptualizing
of traditional representations of chronology. Literary temporality
-- ie, the manipulation of duration, order, and frequency; the
relationship between future, past and present; the biological,
historical, theological, psychological, and metaphysical thematics of
time -- informs both the kinds of narrative and poetic texts
modernist writers created, and the kinds of narratives we create in
order to understand modernism.
The conversation in our panel will begin from two related questions:
1.) How and why did modernist writers (re)imagine or (re)construct
temporality? Which models and discourses--both within and from
outside of literature--influenced and informed their projects?
2.) What have been the ramifications of these projects--formal,
thematic or otherwise--on different aspects of subsequent literature?
Thus, we expect our panelists to do two things: first, argue for the
presence of some discernable project in the reconceptualizing of time
in any modernist text; second, either
argue about or speculate on the literary "future" of this specific
project--either in terms of its influence on subsequent literary
texts, or its more general implications for how we think about
modernism's formal and imaginative legacies.
Send all inquiries and abstracts to Brian Booker (bhb202@nyu.edu) and
Dave Sherman (drs211@nyu.edu)
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