Call for Papers: Gertrude Stein and the Future
NEMLA 2003 (March 6-9, 2003, Boston, MA)
Deadline: September 15, 2002
Panel Chair: Randa Dubnick
Gertrude Stein's writing anticipated many literary "innovations" acclaimed by
later, more well-known writers. This panel will explore Gertrude Stein's
literary innovations and the literature of the century that followed. Please
send abstracts by September 15, 2002 via email to rdubnick@montserrat.edu or
by mail to Randa Dubnick, Montserrat College of Art, PO Box 26, 23 Essex
Street, Beverly, MA 01915.
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www.nemla.org.
Panel Description:
"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause
almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and
literature the rapidity of the change is always startling. . . . When the
acceptance comes . . . the thing created becomes a classic."*
Early in the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein championed Picasso, Hemingway
and
other innovative artists and writers, thereby helping to make the culture of
the century to follow. In addition, her own literary "experiments"
anticipated innovations in
twentieth-century literature that were acclaimed as new when produced by
other writers years later, including avant-garde theater, experimental
narrative, and even linguistic theory. Stein's role as the unrecognized
innovator who in so many cases got there first has too long been overlooked.
Has Gertrude Stein become a classic? This panel will explore how Gertrude
Stein will look from the vantage point of the twenty-first century.
* Gertrude Stein, "Composition as Explanation", Writings and Lectures
1909-1945, p. 23.
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