Modernist Studies Association 6th Annual Conference
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October 21 - 24, 2004
Male Writers and Female Influence (4/25/04; MSA ’04): Papers are
solicited for a proposed panel at the 2004 MSA convention. Against
views of literary history as a masculine succession, this panel
explores how male writers, during the modernist period, responded to
the increasing prominence of their female peers and precursors. In
their three-volume study of twentieth-century literature, No Man’s
Land, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar describe various strategies
whereby male writers, in order to guard the culturally central
position their own work enjoyed, dismissed women writers’
achievements. Were there other, more positive ways in which men
responded to these achievements? In what ways did women influence,
mentor, or otherwise sponsor modernist writing by men? Why is this
kind of influence relationship difficult to conceptualize, or even to
see? What artistic consequences follow from the fact that male
modernists participate in both masculine and feminine literary
traditions? Papers may address issues outlined here, or other aspects
of the relationship between male writing and female influence. Please
send one-page proposal and brief CV by April 25 to Shanna Perkins
(shanna.perkins@yale.edu).
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