CFP: (dis)junctions: Pleasure and Theoretical (Mis)reading (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)

pleasure and theoretical (mis)reading

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
theory reloaded at the University of California, Riverside's 12th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

"I miss reading." We speak it quietly, within the closed confines of our
locked offices, dark library corners, or buried in cyberspace. While paying
respectful (and sometimes coerced) homage to the powerhouse of THEORY,
underground we express nostalgia for the love of reading and writing. Is
there a place in literature studies for pleasure, for our first love? Are we
misreading theory when we allow it to squeeze out the pleasure of the text?
Does any specific branch of theory open more easily for the discussion of
pleasure in either reading or writing? Does cultural studies addresss the
affective process of reading more thoroughly than more classical theoretical
traditions? Is the sometimes intangible quality of pleasure superseded by
the scientific dissection of the process itself? Is there any change in
sight, or will the compartmentalization continue between what scholars do
for love and what scholars do for money?

Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be emailed to
eweeks81_at_hotmail.com by January 7, 2005 (text in the body of the message;
please no attachments).

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/

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