Call for Papers
THE CANADIAN MODERNISTS MEET
A Symposium
University of Ottawa, May 9-10, 2003
Symposium Co-Chairs: Dean Irvine and Seymour Mayne
F. R. Scott's satirical poem "The Canadian Authors Meet" has long
epitomized the emergent modernist's call for a new literary movement in
Canada. Seventy-five years after the publication of Scott's poem in the
McGill Fortnightly Review, questions about the making of literary
modernism in Canada are still under investigation and increasingly
subject to debate.
This symposium seeks to bring together critics, historians, editors,
translators, and theorists whose research on late nineteenth-century and
twentieth-century literatures contributes to the study of modernism in
Canada. Paper proposals are welcome on any issue related to modernism
and Canadian literature from the late nineteenth century to the
mid-twentieth century -- whether case studies of specific texts and
authors, literary and cultural histories, theoretical applications,
discussions of editorial problems and methods, or intermedia approaches.
Topics for papers are open, but may relate to one or more of the
following:
* international contexts and influences
* cultural modernism, modernity, or modernization
* antimodernism, mass culture, or popular culture
* political and social organizations/movements
* writers' groups, associations, and foundations
* recordings, readings, films, and radio broadcasts
* visual art, illustration, and book/magazine design
* prefaces, editorials, and manifestos
* critics and reviewers
* little magazines and literary presses
* publishers and editors
* production, distribution, and marketing
* anthologies and anthologists
* translation and translators
* contemporary editing and editions of modernist authors
Selected papers by symposium participants will be considered for an
essay collection in the Reappraisals: Canadian Writers series, published
by the University of Ottawa Press.
Deadline for proposals: July 31, 2002
Send 300-500 word proposals
(hard copy or Word/Wordperfect attachments) to:
Dean Irvine
Department of English
University of Ottawa
70 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6N5 Canada
email: irvine@uottawa.ca
fax: (613) 562.5990
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