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>From: "Sarah McFarland" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: When Nature Strikes Back (3/1/07; MLA '07)
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>When Nature Strikes Back
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>(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature 
>and the Environment)
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>Proposals are invited for presentations that explore how literary 
>texts (including film) depict or personify natureís retribution for 
>human attempts to control, change, or harm the land.
>
>For example, how does the environment create an inhospitable 
>situation for humans that either appears natural (hurricanes, West 
>Nile Virus, Avian Flu, Mad Cow disease) or supernatural (the flood in 
>Their Eyes Were Watching God)?
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>How does ìnatureî have agency in literature and film?
>
>Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at 
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>Questions are welcome!

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