CFP: The Modernist as Cultural Critic (04/18/04; MMLA, 11/4-11/7/04)
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE MODERNIST AS CULTURAL CRITIC
English III: British Literature After 1900
Midwestern Modern Languages Association
St. Louis, MO.
November 4-7, 2004
For a session on modern British literature, we seek papers that explore
modernist writers' roles as cultural critics--especially the unique mixing
of aesthetic, social, economic, and political discourses within modernist
writings. It could be argued that writers like Wordsworth and Wilde
anticipated the blending of critique and creative writing found in the
poems and essays of T.S. Eliot or Hugh MacDiarmid. One way of attacking
this topic, then, is to consider the the Romantic and Victorian history of
modernist cultural criticism, while articulating its peculiar
contemporaneity.
That, however, is just one possible take on the theme of this panel. We
are interested in a wide range of subjects, including:
--"Edwardian" Modernism: Orage, Wells, "Chesterbelloc"
--Modernism and Sentimentalism/Egoism
--The Great War and (Inter)nationalism
--Modernism and Economic Theory
--"Archipelagic Britishness": Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Modernisms
--Modernism and University English: The Professionalization of Criticism
--Naturalism as Anti-Modernism
--Modernist Criticism and Periodization: Late-, Later-, Latest-, and Post-
Modernisms
Please send abstracts as MS Word attachments to
<matthart@english.upenn.edu> by April 18th, 2004.
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