UPDATE: Romantic Modernisms (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

Extended Deadline : April 15, 2005

Special Session at the 2005 MMLA Convention (Milwaukee, WI)

Traditionally, the Romantic period has been defined by attempts to
transcend loss and to ground experience or identity in the recovery of
individual and cultural memories. This session will discuss the ways in
which particular Romantic-era texts appear to engage in theoretical
concerns that are more usually associated with various modernisms,
exploring representations of trauma, exile, the abject, loss and
forgetfulness during the early nineteenth century that resist, critique
or disable the possibility of recuperative gestures, or that open
towards more radical notions of futurity. Areas of inquiry may include,
but are not limited to, the historical novel, painting, music, narrative
or lyric poetry, drama, and theoretical or critical texts.

Please submit abstracts of about 250 words via email by April 15, 2005
to mrrussell_at_mail.utexas.edu.

Matthew Russell
Program in Comparative Literature
University of Texas at Austin

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