Call for Papers
Eighteenth-Century Speculations (NEASECS\AtSECS 2001 Conference)
Panel:
Sensual Imagistics, Sensual Dialectics Session
Experimental Writing Styles of the 18th Century
The written word in its purest form fuses the mutability of thought with
the tonality of voice. It establishes a constancy that thought cannot
maintain. It also evokes feeling from its readers on a continual basis
similar to the oral story-telling process. The written word immerses us
into the suds of our minds and the pool of our internal dialect. It
evokes within us the feelings we dare not speak and the emotions that we
dare not think. The subtle sensuality poured into each nuanced word and
reified in each carnal verse destabilizes our belief in an internal,
mental order and reveals our own fragmented, somatic intellect. Only the
most daring of novels and most brilliant of writers can capture the
fleeting fervor of the human mind and the ensuing ecstasy of the human
heart exactly as it is felt in hyperbolic verse through a coarse, yet
stylized dialect.
With the coming of the twenty-first century, it is imperative to
uncover in the eighteenth-century those that experimented with the
novelistic structure through uncertain phrases, tenuous verses and
sensatory dialogue. However, aesthetic yet ascetic experimentalism
remains secondary to sensual yet corporeal writing. While many writers
of the eighteenth-century focused on refining and re-finishing the
modulating structure of the incumbent novel, others similar to Addison,
Sterne and even Eliza Haywood went above stylistic refinements to
sensual alignment. They not only played with verse, dialogue and
composition, but incorporated their innovations into an epicurean style
to destabilize, fragment and denormalize contemporary society. This
session proposes to investigate the novels of the 'long'
eighteenth-Century that not only warped society through a new
permutation of expression but that also delved into the chaotic,
sensorial inner being of the human mind to express sentiments typically
obfuscated or denied. By uncovering the sensual yet desultory past we
may then push into the millenium to uncover our future.
Any papers focusing on linguistic or experimental writing style of 18th
Century writers is greatly appreciated:
Send Proposals to by April 27th:
Proposals should include a title, abstract, a mailing address, e-mail
address, phone number, and credentials, etc. Please send proposals for
this session to:
Anita Nicholson
Apt 2B
45 Prospect Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Fax:
Phone: 610 - 581-7559
E-Mail: anita.nicholso
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