New Directions in Frost Studies
A Symposium
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/frost
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
July 10-12, 2003
Call for Papers
This symposium is intended to introduce the ideas and research of a new
generation of Frost critics to a wider audience, and map out possible
futures for Frost studies. Both Frost specialists and general scholars of
twentieth-century poetry are encouraged to attend. The event is sponsored
by the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth, and there is no
registration fee.
A number of established Frost critics - including Robert Faggen, Jay
Parini, Mark Richardson and Tyler Hoffman - will present their newest work
and lead some discussions, in particular of the forthcoming Frost
Notebooks (edited by Faggen and held at Dartmouth), Collected Prose
(edited by Richardson) and Correspondence to be published by Harvard UP in
the next few years. Poet Paul Muldoon will give a reading from his own
work and from Frost’s poetry. (An American poet will also give a reading -
please check the website for updates.) The symposium will also emphasize
and provide access to the extensive Frost Collection at Dartmouth’s Rauner
Special Collections Library.
In recent years critical interest in Frost’s poetry and politics has, on
both sides of the Atlantic, become stronger and livelier. The
consideration of Frost in an international context, sparked in large part
by the impact of his œuvre on poets such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott,
Joseph Brodsky and Paul Muldoon, has been particularly exciting to
witness. Frost is also widely admired by most major American poets, from
Jorie Graham to Robert Pinsky, and his poetry is, of course, read and
taught in most schools and colleges. Yet at the same time there is a
perception amongst some in the academy that Frost is not a legitimate
subject for serious study. New Directions in Frost Studies will provide
scholars — especially graduate and post-doctoral students — with a much-
needed opportunity to meet and engage with one another, and to discuss
their work.
We are particularly interested in papers addressing the issue of where
Frost scholarship might be headed, but this is certainly not a
requirement. Preference will be given to graduate students and scholars at
the start of their academic career. Suggestions for panel topics are also
welcome.
Abstracts of 300 words, for 20-minute papers dealing with any aspect of
Frost’s œuvre, should be sent to:
Marit MacArthur
mjmacarthur@ucdavis.edu
University of California at Davis
or
Rachel Buxton
rachel.buxton@new.ox.ac.uk
New College, Oxford
Closing date for proposals is January 31, 2003.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/frost
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