CFP: W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel (3/25/06;
MLA '06)
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS: W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of
Travel (3/25/2006;
MLA ë06)
>
>Abstracts are invited for a proposed special session
at the annual
Modern
>Language Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA,
27-30 December
2006.
>
>German writer W. G. Sebald once identified the
activity of travel and,
in
>particular, walking, as the central poetics of his
writing, calling
walking
>ìa form of unsystematic searchingî that allows the
writer to ìfind odd
>details that lead you somewhere else.î This
ìunsystematic searchingî
serves
>as an investigative method in Sebald's prose texts,
whose narrators
>frequently venture into both familiar and unfamiliar
territories in
the
>attempt to follow the traces of others that cross
their path. Sebald
thus
>appropriates travel in its various historical and
cultural formsósuch
as the
>educational journey, the pilgrimage, and the walking
touróto create
>intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of
individual
life-stories is
>linked to the mapping of a wider European cultural
history of loss and
>destruction.
>
>Proposals are invited that explore any aspect of
travel, particularly
in its
>relationship to writing, in Sebaldís literary and
essayistic work.
>
>Submit 300-word abstracts with title and brief c.v.
(preferably as
Microsoft
>Word email attachments) by March 25, 2006 to: Markus
Zisselsberger at
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