CFP: Shakespeare and Time (5/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

Papers are invited for the "Shakespeare and Criticism"
panel of this year's M/MLA (Midwest Modern Language
Association) convention, entitled "History, Memory,
and Exile."
PLACE: Milwaukie, Wisconsin (The Pfister Hotel)
TIME: November 10-13.

Panel theme: SHAKESPEARE AND TIME

Drawing on a current critical interest in early modern
studies, this session will address the work of
Shakespeare and his playwriting contemporaries in
relation to various discourses of temporality, widely
defined.  Does Shakespeare's work reflect or engage a
shift in the sense of time at the turn of the
sixteenth century?  How do the plays enforce or
undermine the teleological?  Possible topics might
include but are not limited to the following: the
relationship between drama and memory and forgetting,
including the memory theaters themselves; technologies
of time; figures of time and time as figure; archaism;
generation and the incest threat; natural and
unnatural desires; the genre of the history play and
history as genre; the relation between the historical
and the literary, narrative and poetry.

Please send a one-page abstract or completed 15 minute
paper as a Word attachment or in-line text to Hilary
Binda at hilary.binda_at_tufts.edu.

DEADLINE for abstracts: May 15, 2005

Hilary J. Binda
Visual and Critical Studies Department
Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts
230 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115

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