CFP: Translation Theory & Modernism (5/1/05; MSA, 11/3/05-11/6/05)

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

Proposed Panel: "Translation Theory & Modernism"

The field of Translation Theory has developed considerably in recent years,
and its impact on Modernist Studies has been immediately felt. The
abundance of translations produced by modernist writers as well as the
incorporation of foreign languages into modernist literary texts attest to
the centrality of issues of translation to the Modernist period.

This panel seeks to address modernist conceptions of the native and the
foreign from the vantage point of Translation Theory. How did modernist
writers redefine the boundaries of their own language, nation and identity
by translating foreign works? How did they redefine or undermine the
"nativeness" of their own language by exploring the boundaries between
languages? Can the "cosmopolitanism" traditionally ascribed to high
modernism be understood any longer without a theory of translation?

Please email a 1-page abstract and brief CV by May 1st to Christopher Eagle:
eagle_at_berkeley.edu

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"Why should we be owls, when we can be Eagles?"
- John Keats
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Chris Eagle
322 Wheeler Hall
Department of English
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
eagle_at_berkeley.edu

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