CFP
"Not a History but a Poem": Lawrence Durrell and the
Place of Travel
The Thirty-Second Annual 20th-Century Literature
Conference
The University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
26 - 28 February 2004
We welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of Lawrence
Durrell and/or 20th century travel writing, including--but
by no means limited to--paper topics which might fall into
the following categories:
* Durrell's Place-writing
* "Travel" in Durrell's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and
letters
* Exile
* Islomania
* Dromomania
* Spirit of Place: Greece, Egypt, Provence, and Beyond
* Representations of travel
* Kinds of travel
* The "literary" status of travel writing
* Tourism and sightseeing vs. Travel Writing
* "Journeys In" vs. "Journeys Out"
* Durrell and "The End of Travel"
* Tourism, Modernity, and Postmodernity
* Durrell and the Travel Writing Industry: tradition,
innovation, intertextuality
* Proposals may also wish to consider works by any of the
following related writers: Edward Lear, George Gissing,
D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Aldous Huxley,
Norman Douglas, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Robert
Graves, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, Robert Byron, Freya
Stark, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Graham Greene. . . .
* Theories of Travel: postcolonial, Orientalism, race &
gender. . . .
* Historical Modes of Travel: romanticism, realism,
modernism, &c.
* Signs of Travel: Rhetoric, forms, genres, types, and
tropes
ABSTRACTS: Please send an abstract of 500 words or less
which outlines your topic for a 15-minute talk.
This abstract should include a listing of the travel
writer(s) you will discuss, a description of your
approach, and a short overview of your conclusions.
If your paper does not primarily address Durrell's works,
indicate possible points of connection with those works.
Finally, please let us know if you plan to use slides,
overhead projections, powerpoint, or other multimedia.
Include your name, professional affiliation, addresses
(including e-mail), and a phone number.
DEADLINE: 5 September 2003
PLEASE SUBMIT ALL PROPOSALS TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
By Email w/attachment (preferred): <cls9k@virginia.edu>
~ or ~
By Post:
Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
University of Virginia
219 Bryan Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904
The Thirty-Second annual 20th-Century Literature
Conference will be held at the University of Louisville,
February 26-28, 2004. Please see the conference's
official website for additional information:
<http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/cml/xxconf/>
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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
University of Virginia
cls9k@virginia.edu
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