CFP: L.M. Montgomery's Interior/Exterior Landscapes (7/8/03; 8/23/03-8/27/03)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The L.M. Montgomery Institute of the University of Prince Edward
Island

We invite you to send a proposal (250 to 500 words) for a paper to be
given at the SIXTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, from 23- 27 June
2004 at UPEI in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

The conference theme for 2004 is L.M. Montgomery's
INTERIOR/EXTERIOR LANDSCAPES.

Landscapes may capture or suggest a place, a memory, a feeling, a cultural
marker, a rhythm. L.M. Montgomery has an international reputation for the
(re)creation of Prince Edward Island and Ontario landscapes in her fiction
and poetry, and also in her diaries and letters. In the last few years,
landscapes in her photography and scrapbooks have drawn attention. As
critics such as Gammel and Fiamengo have demonstrated recently, studying
the appeal and the creation of landscapes invites consideration of the
mythic, the erotic, the culturally powerful. Interestingly, in
Montgomery's writing the imagination itself may be read as a kind of
interior landscape, one whose contours may or may not be in harmony with
the surrounding physical landscape. We invite you to consider the literal
and figurative landscapes of Montgomery's life and work and/or to consider
the elements you discern of her interior landscape(s) or those of her
readers or characters.

An exploration of Montgomery's interior/exterior landscapes could include,
among many others, such topics as

-the creation/use of memory or memories
-shaping/reflecting passion or desire
-perceiving contours or rhythms in landscape
-a poetics of female landscape
-cultural responses to landscape
-the power of the picturesque
-cultural expectations and the formation of the interior landscape
-picturing/perceiving/depicting landscape
-the significance of a particular landscape
-the perceived power of colour or shape
-matching interior with exterior landscapes
-popularity of landscapes in fiction and non-fiction
-power or romance of place
-girl culture and the development of imagination
-the camera and the word
-cultural markers in imagined landscape
-the garden and/or the wild grove

Proposals must focus on Montgomery or her work and must make use of
(and/or suggest awareness of) relevant scholarship.

Send three copies of the proposal, a two-hundred-word biography, and your
address, telephone number, and e-mail to:

L.M. Montgomery Institute
University of Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Canada C1A 4P3
E-mail: lmminst_at_upei.ca
FAX: 902-628-4345
Telephone:902-628-4346

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS TO ARRIVE: 8TH JULY 2003

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