Call for Papers
"Writing the Metropolis"
CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE: The University of Iowa's 2nd Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy, April 12-14, 2002
The rise of the metropolis may represent civilized discontent or unlimited
opportunity-or both. Writers such as Poe, Baudelaire, Melville, Joyce,
Wharton, Dos Passos, and Barnes attempted to write their version of the
metropolis, but their views are not the only written attempts to create or
show the metropolis. The writing of the metropolis is unlimited-and this
means that there are many valid perspectives that require attention: the
sociologist's, the architect's, the streetcar operator's, the
steelworker's, or that of the person walking in the crowd. This panel
seeks papers that address the multiple methods, processes, and problems
encountered in various attempts to write the metropolis during the 19th and
20th century. How helpful is it to think about the metropolis as a montage
of competing discourses: less a stable site and more a chain of
experiences? What does the metropolis have to do with pleasure? Is it
marked by unequal exchanges: of liberty for anonymity, of chance for
choice, of rapid changes in space and time for changes to consciousness?
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:
o literature and the metropolis
o media, technology, and the metropolis
o art, architecture, literary criticism, and theory of the metropolis
o transportation and communication in/of the metropolis
o buildings and bodies-navigating the city
o the flâneur
o utopias/dystopias
o metropolis and desire
o cosmopolitanism and regionalism
o the country and the city
o skyscrapers and the sublime
Send 250 word abstracts by February 22, 2002 to:
Sean Scanlan
Department of English
308 English-Philosophy Building
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
sean-scanlan@uiowa.edu
Email submissions are preferred.
For more information about the CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE conference, please
visit our website at www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf.
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