CFP: Memory and Modernism (4/30/05; MSA, 11/3/05-11/6/05)

Modernist Studies Association 7th Annual Conference
November 3-6, 2005
Chicago, Illinois

Proposed Panel: Memory and Modernism

In _The Culture of Time and Space_, Stephen Kern writes that, during the
modernist era, “precisely as the historical past began to lose its authority
as the theoretical framework, the personal past began to attract a variety
of prominent thinkers who scrutinized it with unprecedented care and
insisted that an understanding of it was essential to a healthy and
authentic life” (61). This move from historicism to anamnesis has been
studied only somewhat rigorously by literary critics. For instance,
psychoanalytic criticism has been very scrupulous about analyzing the
content of memory, but less so in considering the mechanisms of recollection
itself, or the variety of discourses that influenced the moderns’ evolving
conceptions of remembrance.

This proposed panel for the 2005 MSA conference in Chicago seeks to consider
the relationships between remembrance and modernist literature and art.
Possible general topics include memory and biography, gendered memory,
nostalgia, traumatic memory, monumentality, memory and nationhood,
phenomonology, and the relationship between remembrance and historicism.
Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. Please send 250-500
word abstracts to amoffett_at_netway.com by April 30th.

Alex Moffett
Northeastern University

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