UPDATE: The deadline for submissions has been extended to February 9th, 2004
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Garry Leonard, Associate Professor of
English at the University of Toronto will be our keynote speaker. Dr.
Leonard's publications include _Re-Joycing Dubliners: A Lacanian
Perspective_ (Syracuse University Press, 1993), and the forthcoming _Joyce
and Advertising: The New [Improved!] Testament_ (University Press of
Florida). He is currently writing a book on the relationship between Cinema,
Modernity, the Rise of Modern City, and Modernism.
McGill University, Montreal
March 20-21, 2004
10th Annual Graduate Symposium on Language and Literature:
"Infinite Impressions: Literature and the Promiscuity of Text"
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/english/grad/gradsymp/symposium04.html
Panel Topic:
Periodization and the American Novel - Modernism, Postmodernism and the
Post-secular
Periodization of literature seems unavoidable, and yet implies a number of
problems. Specialization, the demand on literature programs to
systematically cover the study of literature from earliest records to the
latest literary creations, and the demands of the job market necessitate
periodization. However, literature has a habit of defying neat divisions
into
centuries or half centuries.
This panel focuses on the transition phase between modernism and
postmodernism, and on the possible transition from postmodernism to the
post-secular in order to discuss the problematics of periodization. The
division of literature into periods implies that these periods are lived
synchronically. Is this a valid assumption? How do novels reflect or exceed
such divisions?
Papers might address, but are not restricted to the following topics:
- "Modernism" vs. a variety of modernist projects
- The American scene and periodization
- Writing requires a location: local and temporal situatedness vs. the
generalizing gesture of periodization
- Metafiction - a response to transitional conflict?
- Periodization as conceptualization vs. the particulars of literary texts
- How do literary periods relate to gender?
- How do literary periods relate to ethnicity?
- The Post-secular - indicative of a shift in literary creations, or a shift
in literary criticism?
Please send 300-word paper abstracts to Christina Oltman
[coltma@po-box.mcgill.ca] by February 9th, 2004.
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