Call for Papers
AMERICAN RECEPTION STUDY: RECONSIDERATIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS
Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2005
University of Delaware
Proposals are invited for papers addressing any aspect of the theory and
practice of American reception studies--its shape, role, past
accomplishments, and future prospects--within literary studies,
cultural studies, and the history of the book. Papers may address
theoretical or methodological issues or engage in studies of particular
authors, texts, media, audiences, institutions, and/or cultural practices
relevant to the study of American reception.
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
Reconsiderations of the reception of canonical authors
Reception and ethnicity
Reception and/as canon formation
Reading/interpretive communities as sites of reception
Popular reception of neglected or marginal writers
Reception and post-colonial textualities
American reception study vis-a-vis German reception study
Reception and periodization in American literary studies
American texts and foreign audiences
Roles for reception study in the field of book history
Reception and mass/popular media
Publishing and audience: reception and/as production?
Cyberspace(s) as site(s) of (counter-hegemonic?) reception
Cultural practices (shopping, web-browsing, digital downloading) as
reception practices
Gendered performativity and/as reception
Reception study and genre study
Reception and/as cultural capital
The future of qualitative audience studies
Relations among reception study, reader-response criticism, and other
forms of audience study
Plenary Speakers: Steven Mailloux and others to be announced
Send a 250-400 word proposal/abstract and a 1-2 page vita to either of the
conference organizers by June 1, 2004:
Philip Goldstein James L. Machor
University of Delaware (Parallel) Dept. of English
4th and Shipley 108 English/Counseling Bldg.
Wilmington, DE 19711 Kansas State University
e-mail: pgold@UDel.edu Manhattan, KS 66506
e-mail: machor@ksu.edu
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