CFP: Aesthetic Objects/Material Things, 1850-1920
What cultural stories can be found in the relationship between aesthetic
objects and material things? Much scholarly work has elaborated on material
culture or aesthetics in literary representations of things, but the
inquiries rarely question how the use or importation of things/objects
account for the divergent cultural trends that writers employ in crafting
their American poetry or fiction. How are quotidian objects of culture
aesthetically transformed in works of fiction or poetry? How are aesthetic
objects rendered into culturally material objects by becoming embedded into
narrative or lyric prose and poetry? What are the cross-cultural
entanglements of the materiality of literary objects or the aesthetics of
material objects? Objects from the spectrum of literary history are sought
for discussion: abstracts on 19th-century gewgaws, sentimental or
ready-made objects, 20th-century found objects, and so on.
Please submit a 300-word abstract for a proposed 3-4 person panel at the
NEMLA Convention in Boston, MA, March 6-9, 2003. For more information on
NEMLA and its annual convention see <http://www.nemla.org>
Papers on a variety of objects in American fiction or poetry are welcome.
Abstracts due by September 15, 2002.
Send queries and abstracts to:
Jee Yoon Lee
Department of English
3187 Angell Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
fax: 734.763.3128
or email:
jeeylee@umich.edu
Email preferred but please no attachments.
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