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>From: Martin Harries <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Theater, Modernism, Mass Culture (4/15/05; MSA, 11/3/05-11/6/05)
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>CFP for the Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, November 3-6, 2005
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>Theater, Mass Culture, Modernism
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>Did theater ever become "modernist"?  If so, how might this development
>be related to mass culture?  Almost twenty years ago, Andreas Huyssen
>described the "great divide" -- the mutually constitutive relationship
>of, and antagonism between, "high" and "mass" culture -- but this
>argument has only begun to enter into discussions of theater.  Why?  Is
>theater's relationship to mass culture distinctively different from
>that of, say, the novel?  Topics might include connections between
>debates about form and modernism in theater and other arts; case
>studies of figures who worked between media; discussions of theater as
>medium in the wake of mass culture; theater as the site of critique of,
>or desire for, mass cultural audiences; mass cultural forms as sites
>of critique of, or nostalgia for, theatrical audiences.  Theoretical
>and historical overviews and close analyses of particular works are all
>welcome.
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>I seek abstracts of 250-300 words by April 15th to
><[log in to unmask]>.  Please also include a short (two or three
>sentence) biography.
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>Martin Harries, New York University

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