9th Annual McGill University International Graduate Symposium on Language
and Literature: “Blood Lust, Blood Loss: Representations of Struggle and
Desire
March 22-23, 2003.
Montreal, Quebec.
“Desiring the Struggle: Doubles, Doppelgangers and Other Twinning Twist
Papers are solicited for a panel on twins and twinning tropes as
epitomized in and through modern literature and culture for the
9th Annual International Graduate Symposium on Language and
Literature at McGill University (March 22-3, 2003).
The parameters of this panel are necessarily wide. It (the panel) calls on
a motif that runs (both implicitly and explicitly) from protomodernism to
postmodernism (Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Arundhati Roy, Tom Tykwer)
through genre (play, prose and film) and across culture (the Americas, the
U.K., The East—Mid- and Far-). Twinning highlights the <I>loss</I> of the
enlightenment ideal of a coherent, real self—Ptolemaic theory replaced by
Copernican is the second Fall. Doubling also <I>lusts</I> for the putative
freedom lying behind (or beyond) the stoic metaphysic of this ideal,
coherent self. Thus, twinning simultaneously speaks to repulsion and to
attraction, to aversion and to acceptance, to loss and to lust. It calls
on the self and the other; it sees the self as other at the same time as
it sees the other as self; consequently, the self is simultaneously not
self and not not self—the self accepts authenticity; the self resists
authenticity. The twinning trope transcends the map and the mapping of
self; it’s beyond boundaries and above blood.
These suggestions aim to encourage (and not limit) abstract submission:
-Unintentional Twinning?
-The Compulsion to Repeat
-Intertextuality and Ressentiment
-Parallel Universes
-Intentional Twinning?
-The Twin Paradox
-Running Emotions Offline
-The Performative as the Constative
Please send one-page abstracts (maximum) to Jason S. Polley by Jan 31,
2003. blazesboylan@hotmail.com
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/english/symposium9.html
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