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Place: 4th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association
Madison, Wisconsin
October 31-November 3, 2002
The Modernist Response to the Rise of Behaviorism
To date, very little critical ink has been spilt on the corresponding
rise of psychological behaviorism and the development of literary
modernism; however, many well-studied modernist works generate new
readings when they are perceived as resisting the threat of behaviorist
stimulus-response conditioning that was being popularized as early as
1913. By exploring the influence of behaviorism on modernist forms and
subject matter, we are in a better position not only to reevaluate
modernism's "supposed" opposition to mass culture, but also to explain
complex modernist poetics. Ironically, behaviorism also served as a
resource, allowing the moderns to predict and exploit their readers'
responses. All papers that explore the potential intersections of
literary modernism and psychological behaviorism are welcome.
Please email 250 word paper proposals and c.v.s to Dr. Bradley D.
Clissold, FCAR Postdoctoral Fellow Dalhousie University
(bcliss@po-box.mcgill.ca). Participants must be members of The
Modernist Studies Association by the time of the conference. Deadline:
20 April 2002.
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