CFP: Symposium on Poetic Form (7/1/05; ALA, 9/30/05-10/1/05)

ALA Symposium on Poetic Form
September 30-October 1, 2005
Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California

The American Literature Association is hosting a special symposium on
approaches to poetry that consider the role of verse form. Although the
ALA focuses on American authors and texts, we welcome papers and panels on
all Anglophone poetry.

Papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops might address some of the
following questions: How do meter, rhythm, and verse form matter? How do
we understand the linguistic, cognitive, and social structures that create
the rhythmic, visual, and sensory experience of poetry? How can the study
of the formal dimension of poetry complement, challenge, or deepen the
historical and political accounts of poetry that have dominated the last
quarter-century of literary study? What is the role of race, class,
gender, and nation in shaping poetic form? What is the relationship
between the study of prosody and the study of aesthetics or of genre? How
do avant-garde techniques require that we rethink familiar styles of
analysis?

Papers and panels are invited that answer any of these questions. We are
also interested in proposals for workshops and roundtables. Submissions
are welcome on any Anglophone poetry. We are most interested in a lively
discussion of where the study of poetic form stands today. The symposium
will include an open poetry reading.

The program will feature keynote addresses by Richard Cureton, University
of Michigan, and Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University-Newark.

The Bahia Resort Hotel is offering a special conference rate of $114 per
night. The conference fee of $120 will include two lunches and two
receptions.

Send proposals by July 1, 2005 to the Conference Director:
Professor Michael L. Manson
American University at
mmanson_at_american.edu

Further information and details, including registration forms, may be
found under Future Events at www.americanliterature.org

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