CFP: Music and Literary Modernism (4/1/03-7/15/03)
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From: Robert P. McParland
Proposals for interdisciplinary papers are sought for the 13th Annual =
Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY-Cortland, =
Cortland, New York, October 26-28, 2003 for a panel on Music and =
Literary Modernism.
Papers are welcome on any intersections of music and literary modernism. =
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
*Literary modernism and musical aesthetics. How music became a trope =
deployed in modernism's justification of its aesthetic practice.
*Musicality in the text: Structure, Rhythm, Music, Text, and Time. =
Tonality, serial composition, and writing.
*Jazz: its impact on American or British fiction and poetry, or =
specifically on the writing of the Harlem Renaissance
*Cultural approaches: Shifts in paradigm, challenges to 19th century =
confidence, loss of ontological ground or culture losing its bearings, =
relativism, interiority.
*Studies of music and individual authors: ie. Pound's composing in =
"musical phrases", Gertrude Stein's writing, T.S. Eliot and The Four =
Quartets, Joyce and "sirens", Woolf and "The Waves", E.M. Forster and =
his character's responses to Beethoven, Hemingway and music.
*Connections of composers with literature: art song, interactions of =
text and music. Ives, Varese, Antheil and American writers, or =
Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Satie, Bartok and their influence.
*Musicology and theoretical approaches: Adorno and philosophy/sociology =
of music, or reflections from new musicology (Nattiez, Abbate, Kramer) =
are welcome.
Send proposals and abstracts by July 15,2003 to
Robert P. McParland at mcparlandr@msn.com
Felician College
262 S.Main Street
Lodi, New Jersey 07644
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