Call for Papers
"Rethinking Renaissance Classicism"
Proposed Special Session
CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South); April 15-17, 2004
St. Louis, MO
Studying the impact of the classics on Renaissance art and literature has
been a primary topic of scholarship since the 18th century. However, while
such scholarship has certainly been useful, it has often limited itself to
source study and the study of "intellectual history." There is much left to
be done to understand fully the complex relationship between these two
periods, a relationship that goes beyond writers borrowing from other
writers. How is the classical world transformed or made new in the
Renaissance? Can anything be discovered about the classical world by viewing
it through the eyes of the Renaissance? How do varying cultural ideologies
affect the relationship between these periods? Does the Renaissance offer a
reconciliation of those ideologies or a fracture?
Perhaps new theoretical approaches to art and culture can provide new ways to
discuss the connections between the ancient world and Renaissance classicism.
Papers that discuss and/or implement new ways of examining the presence of
the classical world in the Renaissance are invited. Any approach that reaches
beyond simple source study is welcome (discourse theory, psychoanalysis,
intertexuality, feminism, etc.). Although literature is the primary focus of
the panel, papers that deal with any aspect of culture will be considered as
long as it is dealt with comparatively.
One page abstracts should be sent via email by July 15, 2003.
Jacob Blevins
Assistant Professor of English
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70609-2655
Blevinsjake@aol.com
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