[Mediaevistik] Call for Papers: MLA Conference San Francisco

[Markus Stock]

>
> CALL FOR PAPERS -- PLEASE CIRCULATE
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> FROM THE MLA DIVISION FOR GERMAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1700
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> FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO, DEC. 
> 27-30, 2008.
> 1. The Constructed Self: Revisiting the “I” With New Eyes
> Papers sought that examine any aspect of the poetic subject (or 
> subject position) in medieval or early modern literature (lyric, epic, 
> romance, drama, chronicle, or devotional literature). Papers might 
> consider questions such as: Since the eschewing of biographical 
> criticism in the 1980s and 1990s, is there anything to be gained from 
> re-thinking the relationship between the “I” of a text and a 
> historical counterpart or author? What can we say about the “I” now 
> that we acknowledge its constructedness (whether as a literary device, 
> a set of subject positions, or as an instantiation of a particular 
> gender configuration)?
> 2. The Form of the World: Site, Sound, and Symbol in Pre-Modern German 
> Literature
>
> Papers sought that examine any sensual aspect in relation to medieval 
> and early modern German literature: sight, touch, sound, smell, or 
> taste. Topics might include the representation and symbolic deployment 
> of material objects either sacred or profane, the structuring and 
> interpretation of space (architecture) and landscape, the role of 
> music or song in a particular text, the significance of smell and 
> taste in secular and sacred literature. Also of interest would be 
> examinations of texts themselves as material objects (in and outside 
> of manuscripts) how they relate to the material world in which they 
> were produced (for example in a monastery, at court, in the town) or 
> to other material works of art (painting, architecture, sculpture, etc.).
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> 3. Open Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
> 1-page abstracts by March 1, 2008 to Sara S. Poor at 
> spoor at princeton.edu <mailto:spoor at princeton.edu>
>
> Sara S. Poor
> Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
> Department of German
> Princeton University
> 211 East Pyne
> Princeton, NJ 08544
> (609) 258-7980
> (609) 258-5597 (FAX)
> spoor at princeton.edu <mailto:spoor at princeton.edu>