International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Ninth
International Conference: =93Narrative of Modernity: Co-Existence of
Differences=94, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2 =967 Augus=
t,
2004.
Conference information: http://issei2004.haifa.ac.il
Paper proposals are invited for a panel on
Authenticity and the Narrative of Modernism
In a classic study, Lionel Trilling argued that the modernism began w=
ith
the substitution of authenticity for sincerity, or the replacement of
submission to social and conventional codes of honesty with the
imperative to expose the essence of an innermost self. Certainly the
most popular narrative of the development of modernism in the twentie=
th
century has reflected the conviction that, as Rilke puts it in the Te=
nth
Duino Elegy, =93gleich dahinter ists wirklich,=94 and that the formal=
and
aesthetic experiments of artistic modernists had as their purpose the
penetrating of the surface of custom to some concealed or repressed
truth beyond. The aim of this workshop will be to reexamine that
narrative and the social and intellectual purposes it has served. Doe=
s
it adequately describe the many-faceted phenomenon of literary and
artistic modernism? Are different versions of modernism -- for exampl=
e,
a specifically American version -- marginalized by this mostly Europe=
an
definition? Has the rise of postmodernism, which often prides itself =
on
its recognition of the inescapability of similacra, helped to solidif=
y a
monolithic myth of its predecessor as tyrannized by the ideal of trut=
h?
Please send one page proposals by April 15, 2004 to David H. Evans
(dhevans@dal.ca)
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