CALL FOR PAPERS
It is our pleasure to announce a two-day conference entitled
"Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of
Russia." The conference will be held on May 7th and 8th, 2004
at Northwestern University. We invite papers that explore
Russian literary culture, writers and/or texts from the
perspective of the New Economic Criticism (NEC), a growing body
of scholarship that investigates relations among works of
literature, cultural history, and changing economic paradigms.
The event enjoys the generous support of the Northwestern
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures in conjunction
with the Alumnae Board of Northwestern University. Panel and
paper proposals can be sent to James Driscoll
([log in to unmask]). For conference information, please
contact Susan McReynolds Oddo ([log in to unmask]).
Conference details are available at
www.slavic.northwestern.edu/criticalexchanges
James Driscoll (Harvard)
Susan McReynolds Oddo (Northwestern)
The “New Economic Criticism” (NEC) is a growing body of scholarship that
investigates relations among works of literature, cultural history, and
changing economic paradigms. Since the early 1980s, when it emerged as a
challenge to deconstruction, New Economic Criticism has inspired some of the
most innovative interdisciplinary studies of Western European literature and
culture. We believe that New Economic Criticism holds immense potential for
the study of Russia, and that an exploration of Russian history and culture
can, in turn, enrich this new line of scholarly inquiry.
This conference seeks to build off the work, begun in Europe, by scholars
interested in the relationships between Russian literature and its economic
forms of life. The research programme and international conference,
“Literatur und Kommerz” (2001), organized at the University of Basel (see
links below) was the first attempt to systematically examine Russian
literature from a new econo-critical perspective. It is our hope that
“Critical Exchanges” will be the next step in an ongoing, transatlantic
dialogue on the influence of economic thought and practice on Russian
imaginary literature.
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