CFP: Romantic Memory, Remembering Romanticism (4/20/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

"Romantic Memory, Remembering Romanticism." At this year's Midwest MLA
conference in Milwaukee, this panel has two objectives: to identify
various ways in which English Romanticism involves the practice of memory;
and to reflect upon how these various forms of memory are recapitulated
and/or reconfigured in recent Romantic criticism. This dual focus is in
keeping with what critics from Abrams, Bloom and Hartman to McGann,
Christensen, Chandler and Ferguson have characterized as Romanticism's
'performative imperative:' the imperative to respond practically to the
inexorable role of doing in saying. In various ways, these critics
commonly encourage us to move from questions of, for instance, how the past
is represented by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats, to questions of how
they enact various kinds of memorial agency. The shift to the latter set
of questions is significant because it raises another raft of questions
about how such agency is enacted in the practice of criticism itself: how
are the varieties of memorial agency exemplified by Wordsworth, Byron,
Shelley and Keats not merely represented but reenacted by these and other
of their recent critics? by ourselves? what, if anything, is lost/gained
in translation from poetic to critical performance? Email 500 word
proposals by April 20 to: <mailto:boe_at_uchicago.edu>boe_at_uchicago.edu.

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