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CALL FOR PAPERS
13TH ANNUAL CENTRAL NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
CORTLAND COLLEGE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
OCTOBER 26-28, 2003
GENERIC INTERLUDES: Formal Mixture in Modern Literature
Chair: Matt Laufer
121 4th Place #3
Brooklyn, NY 11231
email: MIL12@columbia.edu
Deadline: 500 word abstracts (or full papers) by 7/15/03
"One owes it to oneself not to get mixed up in mixing genres." (Jacques
Derrida, "The Law of Genre")
"The goal is to identify new forms, since the history of art is not
determined by ideas but by the process that gives form to ideas." (Peter
Szondi, "In Lieu of an Afterword" to Theory of the Modern Drama)
The focus of this panel is on literature that departs from its general
form for varied purposes and with a variety of effects. That is to say,
works of literature with other literary genres/ forms embedded within
them. My specific interest is in novels that turn to drama (novels with
embedded dramatic interludes), but I will accept papers focusing on any
sort of generic departure/ interlude/ slippage. Some questions to
consider: Do these interludes signal a commentary about genre? Some
kind of nostalgia? Something avant guarde? Some kind of ritual? A
transition? A repressed fantasy? A pedagogical guide?
Note: I mean to be very flexible with the restriction to "modern"
literature, as the authors below indicate. Consider "modern" to mean
since the advent of the novel.
Possible authors to consider:
Herman Melville
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Jean Toomer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Daniel Defoe
Royall Tyler
Gustave Flaubert
Vladimir Nabokov
Djuna Barnes
Nigel Dennis
James Boswell
Gunther Grass
William Gaddis
Nathanael West
David Foster Wallace
Dave Eggers
Kurt Vonnegut
Jonathan Safran Foer
Papers chosen will have to fit within a 15 to 20-minute reading time.
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