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> >From: aelias2 <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: CFP: Narrative, Form, Beauty: Resistance (10/15/04; ACLA, >3/11/05-3/15/05) > > >Paper proposals are being accepted for a proposed seminar at the 2005 ACLA >meeting, March 11-15 at Penn State University. The conference theme is >"Imperialisms--Temporal, Spatial, Formal." > >This 8-person seminar will be focused on critical and creative narrative and >will assess how contemporary aesthetics may offer resistance to traditional >beliefs about cognitive patterning, about ěproperî form, and/or truisms about >form/content relationships. Questions under this umbrella include the >following: What do we mean when we talk about aesthetics these days, >particularly in relation to narrative? In what ways have interdisciplinarity >and new technologies altered our understandings of aesthetic and formal value? > Are all new aesthetic perspectives avant-garde aesthetics? Beyond the solace >of conservative tradition or ivory-tower aestheticism, what might new >formalisms offer during historical moments that demand ideological critique? >What is the relation now between narrative ethics and aesthetics? between >rhetoric and aesthetics figured as resistance to older, or outdated, or >impoverished paradigms? Is beauty and sublimity the, or the only, endgame of >narrative aesthetics today? In what ways do new theories of cognition, >visuality, and information transfer map on to narrative aesthetics? How does >narrative form need to be rethought as anti-imperial resistance to older forms >or valuations of form? > >Papers should not be close readings of specific texts, but rather should focus >on the more theoretical questions listed above. All papers should focus on >narrative, defined broadly in critical and creative terms. Send an abbreviated >vita and abstract of no more than 400 words via email to <[log in to unmask]>. >Please do not send attachments, but rather paste the proposal into the body of >the email. DEADLINE: October 15, 2004. > >Inquiries may be addressed to Amy J. Elias, Department of English at the >University of Tennessee, at [log in to unmask] or at 865-974-6964. > >All participants will need to be members of the ACLA by the conference >deadline. The ACLA describes its seminars as follows: "The ACLA's annual >conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into >twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for the three days of the >conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) >seminars meet just the first two days of the conference." See >http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/ACLA/ for more information about the >conference and ACLA. > >Amy J. Elias >Associate Professor >Department of English >414 McClung Tower >University of Tennessee >Knoxville, TN 37996-0430 >[log in to unmask] > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html