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> >Subject: CFP: Spells of "Romance" (grad) (12/15/06; 2/9/07-2/10/07) >From: "Ashley N. Puig Herz" <[log in to unmask]> > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >Entralogos: Romance Studies Graduate Conference 2007 >Feb. 9-10, 2007 >Cornell University > >Enamored, Romanized, Romanced: Spells of ìRomanceî > >What does romance conjure? How is it conjured? The word ìromanceî has been >used to describe an ever-increasing range of conditions, ideas, and >actions throughout its discontinuous but persistent historical >appearances. Such diversity points to language as a dynamic and reflective >ground in which meaning develops continuously. Entralogos 2007 will be an >occasion to consider this versatile signifier and its power to transform >the state of reality. From the Roman Empire's multiple legacies to the >Romanesque, Romanticism, and roman, romanzo, romance in narrative, >ìromanceî unfolds its affective force in a sensual, contagious gesture >that underlies its expression of violence, sentiment, desire, coercion, >lyricism, and rebellion. The magnitude of the events associated with it >demands the awareness that assembling or pronouncing a word in a specific >way entails the risk of altering the factual. "Romance" has imposed >particular, complex experiences and notions (to mention only a few) of >reading and writing, of the composition of the inhabited world (the Roman >Empire's oikoumene, which introduced differences between East and West >that today still foster senses of identity), and of truth, faith, and >fiction; it intertwines emotion and beauty, as it does justice and >property. Its many irreducible transfigurations resist the closure of >linguistic lineage, time period, and creative form or genre by instead >traversing them disruptively. > >We are interested in looking at romance from a perspective that cannot be >exhausted within the margins of romance languages and literatures. >Therefore, we welcome work from a variety of theoretical postures, time >periods, disciplines, departments, or movements. > >Topics could include (but are not limited to): > >* iterations of the amorous in literature, psychoanalysis, music, and >painting; >* analysis of gender roles through romantic love and literary language; >* emotions associated with ìromanceî (desire, melancholy, nostalgia); >* Romanticism in music; >* melodrama; >* passion, revolution, violence, and borders; >* encounters among romance languages and between romance and non-romance >languages; >* the influence of the Roman, Romantic, and Romanesque spirits on ideas, >practices, and events; >* impositions of universality by religion and law; >* consequences of imperialism on territorial practices, language, >literature, art, the university, and politics; >* convergences and divergences between Romanticism and Classicism; >* Romantic Orientalism; >* translation to and from romance languages; >* the development of genre within literature in the vernacular; >* and representations of the world through official languages and >discourses and clandestine ones. > >Please submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 250 words by December >15, 2006 to Bill Viestenz at [log in to unmask] Abstracts must include an >attached cover letter indicating the title, authorís name, affiliation, >address, telephone number, and e-mail address. All papers and abstracts >must be in English. Submissions are accepted from graduate students only. >Interdisciplinary approaches encouraged. We look forward to your >submissions. ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html