CFP: Children's Literature and Modernism (3/1/05; MLA '05)

Panel Session Title: "Children's Literature and Modernism"

MLA 2005 (12/27/05-12/30/05) in Washington, D.C.

Session sponsored by: Children's Literature Association, an
Allied/Affiliate Association of the MLA

Panel Session Description:

Stream of consciousness, fragmentation, multi-media experimentation,
multiple perspectives, cityscapes, shifting boundaries of time and space,
making it new, recycling the old. Modernism pursues new ways of seeing --
and often through the pages of children's literature.

This panel will explore the role of children's literature in modernist
literature and during the modernist period, 1890-1945. Why does Joyce turn
to Lewis Carroll? How do Langston Hughes's poems for adults inform his
works for children? To what extent -- and with what results -- do
children's book illustrators participate in the modernist
project? Possible authors and illustrators include Langston Hughes, H.D.,
Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Countee Cullen, Winsor McKay,
L. Frank Baum, P.L. Travers, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielson, Edward Dulac,
Howard Pyle, and many others. Send abstracts (350-500 words) by email or
mail to:

Karin Westman
westmank_at_ksu.edu
Kansas State University
Department of English
106 English/ CS Building
Manhattan, KS 66506

Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2005

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