My friend, Laurie Johnson, asked me to submit this call for papers to this
list.
Peter C. Herman
>CALL FOR PAPERS: Theorizing J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
>
>I seek proposals for a special session at the 2004 MLA in Philadelphia
>that would attempt to interpret Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in the light
>of contemporary critical concerns (New Historicism, feminism,
>deconstruction, cultural studies, etc.). Despite the fact that
>Tolkien's trilogy constitutes one of the most popular books of the
>latter twentieth-century, for many, the Lord of the Rings remains
>marginal to academic concerns. No article on this text, for example, has
>appeared in such journals as ELH, Review of English Studies, or PMLA.
>However, the popularity of Peter Jackson's films has created a
>resurgence of interest in Tolkien's work invites us to reread Tolkien's
>works in accordance with contemporary concerns.
>
>250-word abstracts and a 1 page vitae by March 1.
>
>Send to Laurie Johnson
>
>Georgia State University
>
>Department of English
>MSC 8R0322
>33 Gilmer Street SE, Unit 8
>Atlanta, GA 30303-3088
>
>Or as a MS word attachment to [log in to unmask]
>
>NOTE: All program participants must be members of MLA by April 7, 2004.
>The MLA membership requirement may be waived for participants who reside
>outside the United States and Canada
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