CFP: Rethinking Canonicity (grad) (10/24/05; 11/11/05)

"Rethinking Canonicity" (grad)(10/24/2005;11/11-12/2005)

Second Annual English Graduate Organization Conference

Western Illinois University - Macomb

November 11-12, 2005

Conference Description:

This conference intends to revisit, revise, and rethink the usefulness,
qualifications, and purposes of the idea of a Canon in the various genres of
texts, including literature, genre literature, film, criticism, critical
theory, and popular and mass culture. The conference welcomes consideration
and interpretations from any perspective regarding these forms and their
relationship to the Liberal Arts, specifically the increasingly multi-faceted
discipline of English.

Some questions which we seek to entertain are: Are categories of good and bad
texts artificial? What is the usefulness of a Canon? What harm does a Canon
do? Who defines the Canon, and by what terms and qualities? How do we become
introduced to the Canon? Is a Canon needed? Is there a dialectical Un-Canon
to cover the territory excluded by the Canon?

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Topics might include but are not limited to:

Literature
Film
Genre Fiction
Poetry
Critical Studies
Pedagogy
Cultural Studies
Mass Media and Mass Culture: Canon in a hypertext age
Genre Canons
Politics of Canon
The Shifitng Canon
Ideals in Canonicity
The UnCanon
Canon as Cultural Capital
The Economics of Canon
Book Awards
Socio-economic privileges
Language Barriers and the Canon
Overlapping Canons
The Boundary between Canon and UnCanon

Abstracts of no more than 200 words are invited via e-mail to cb-
hazlett_at_wiu.edu or jd-mckee_at_wiu.edu to be received no later than October 24,
2005. Multi-media presentations are welcomed. Presentations will be 20
minutes.

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