CFP: Poetics of Temporality as Historical Method (3/22/03; MLA '03)

CFP: Poetics of Temporality as Historical Method

Modern Language Association Convention, 2003

(This special session has not yet been approved.)

This panel seeks to explore poetics as historical method, with =
particular reference to radical Modernism's espousal and deployment of =
critical values pertaining to the perhaps irreducible problem, in =
Gertrude Stein's phrase, of "the time in the composition." Recent =
developments in poetics, stemming from the experimental narrative =
methodologies of novelists and poets associated with "high Modernism," =
emphasize formal and / or linguistic modes of thought which attempt to =
break with "narrative" altogether while seeking a sort of historical =
accuracy. In other words, contemporary poetics reads both Modernism and =
modernity as exemplary of a methodological shift from strategic =
distortions of historical narrative for aesthetic effect to mutually =
implicated engagements of epistemology, temporality, and language acts - =
in short, the interface between historiography and phenomenology. =
Rather than attempt to answer the chicken-and-the-egg riddle of =
modernity, this panel articulates particular engagements at the =
fundamental level of historical methodology.

Potential topics include:

- Early modern American temporalities: Emerson, James, Dickinson, Crane, =
and their relation to Stein's temporality.

- Post-Modern / Radical Modern autobiography as historical methodology.

- Non-teleological history and / or teleological phenomenology in recent
poetries / poetics.

- Post- or Anti-Colonial literature and the poetics of temporality.

- The reification and / or literary historical roots of anti- and new-
narrative poetics.

500 word abstracts by March 22nd to Patrick F. Durgin =
(pdurgin_at_acsu.buffalo.edu).

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www.buffalo.edu/~pdurgin

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