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> >From: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: CFP: The Politics of Friendship: >Modernist Literary/Philosophical Groups and >their Embedded Politics (9/15/05; NEMLA, >5/2/06-5/5/06) > >The Politics of Friendship: Modernist Literary/Philosophical Groups >and their Embedded Politics > >proposal deadline: September 15, 2005 >contact: [log in to unmask] > >Call for papers for a panel on The Politics of Friendship: Modernist >Literary/Philosophical Groups and their Embedded Politics at 2006 >NEMLA annual convention, Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006 > >While the concept of modernism often invokes a >lone image of a fl’neur, literary >or philosophical groups invite us to go beyond the obsession of individual >geniuses and to explore the dynamic politics as embedded in these exemplary >groups. The panel invites papers which address the historical, political, and >philosophical significances of various modern >literary and philosophical groups >such as Woolf's Bloomsbury, C.S. Lewis and Tolkien's Inglings, Freud's "secret >committee," Wittgenstein and the "Vienna Circle," the Tel Quel group, the >literary "Leftbank," Dorothy Parker's Vicious Circle, and many others. Papers >that engage the concept of modernity and formation of literary/philosophical >groups from a philosophical, psychoanalytical, and political perspective are >especially welcome. > >Please submit proposals of approximately 500 words and a short >biographical note by September 15 to: > >Lili Hsieh ([log in to unmask]) > >Lili Hsieh >Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow >English Department/ >The Humanities Forum >The University of Pennsylvania > > ******************* 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