CFP: Stream of Consciousness (young scholars) (9/15/04; ALSC, 11/12/04-11/14/04)

CALL FOR PAPERS

For The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics'

New Orleans Conference

November 12-14, 2004

The 2004 Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
(ALSC) will offer a new feature, a series of seminars designed to increase
participation of younger scholars in the conference. Those scholars who are
accepted for inclusion in these seminars, but who are not currently members
of the Association, will receive a free, one-year membership, which includes
a subscription to our widely-acclaimed review, Literary Imagination. Modest
travel stipends are also available upon approval of the ALSC Conference
Committee. Modeled on what has worked successfully for such organizations as
the Shakespeare Association of America and the Modernist Studies
Association, these three seminars will each be led by a distinguished member
of the ALSC. The conference will be held from Friday, November 12 through
Sunday, November 14, 2004, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans,
Louisiana. And the seminars will take place on Saturday, November 13, from
4:30-6:00 p.m. immediately after readings by Robert Pinsky, Michael Collier,
and Sigrid Nunez. Mr. Pinsky will also give our keynote address on Friday,
November 12, at approximately 8:00 p.m.

Each seminar will have 15 guaranteed places, and each person accepted to a
seminar will receive an official letter of invitation to the conference and
will be listed in the program for the conference. Participants in the
seminar will write very brief position papers (2-4 pages), which they will
circulate among themselves prior to the conference. The listing of the
titles of these papers in the conference program should help the
participants in their efforts to obtain funding to the conference from their
home colleges and universities. Graduate students and junior faculty are
especially encouraged to apply for these seminars, but senior scholars are
eligible as well.

Since these seminar opportunities are new, we hope that senior scholars will
in fact spread the word about them, and encourage their graduate students
and junior colleagues to apply. The three seminars will run concurrently;
those formally admitted to each seminar will participate in the actual
discussion, but anyone at the conference will be welcome to attend one of
the seminars as an auditor provided there is sufficient room to accommodate
them. For details on the topics of the seminars and application procedures,
please see below. All applications and abstracts for the seminars are due on
September 15, 2004.

SEMINAR ONE: "STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS"

Papers, two to four pages, not limited to Joyce and his progeny or to
modernist narrative. Stream of consciousness in poetry, drama, the essay?
Stream of consciousness in earlier literary periods? Send abstracts (hard
copy, please) of about a half page to Frank Lentricchia, c/o Duke University
Program in Literature, Art Museum Building 101, P.O. Box 90670, Durham, NC
27708-0670. Please also send a second copy of your abstract by email to
alsc_at_bu.edu.

Michael Gouin-Hart

Administrator

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)

650 Beacon Street, Suite 510

Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Phone: 617-358-1990 / Fax: 617-358-1995

Email: alsc_at_bu.edu / Internet: www.bu.edu/literary

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