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>Subject: CFP: Modernism, Emotion, and Impersonality (4/1/06; MSA 8, 
>10/19/06-10/22/06)
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>From: "Anthony J. Cuda" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Call for papers:
>Modernist Studies Association 8 (2006)
>October 19-22, 2006 Tulsa, Oklahoma
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>Impersonal Passions
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>This panel brings together two contested territories of contemporary
>scholarship on aesthetic modernism: the reconsideration of impersonality and
>the attempt to rethink emotional experience and its role in creativity and
>aesthetics.
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>Our panel seeks to gauge the pressure that new readings of impersonality exert
>on modern theories of emotion or vice versa. Do modernist considerations of
>emotion revise or reify conventional expressivist theories of art and
>personality? How do modernist strategies of myth-making, detachment, and
>indifference negotiate the urgent, particular emotions associated with
>personal, historical, and political experience? We welcome essays that explore
>how modernism engages with emotional experience in many varieties, including
>its role in artistic creation and reception; its configurations in the
>discourses of philosophy, emergent psychologies, or popular culture; and its
>implications in terms of politics, ideology, and aesthetics.
>
>In light of the conference's title, "Out of the Archives," we also welcome
>essays that address the tension between archival research--which 
>often promises
>to shed light the intentions of an authorial self--and the theoretical
>implications of such research, which (especially in terms of impersonality)
>frequently challenge or resist both intentionality and authority. Please send
>brief (150 words) abstracts as soon as possible to Anthony Cuda at
>[log in to unmask] Deadline is April 1, but review of proposals begins
>immediately.
>
>
>Anthony J. Cuda
>Visiting Assistant Professor
>English Department
>Emory University
>Atlanta, GA 30322
>(404) 727-1942

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