Dear all,
I’d like to alert members of the list to two additional calls for
papers for sessions at the 2012 MLA Convention, to be sponsored by the
International Spenser Society. Here they are:
Open Session on the poetry of Edmund Spenser
Papers on any aspect of the poetry of Edmund Spenser, early and late,
including – among many things – Spenser’s prosody, language,
allegorical mode, fiction-making, allusion, narrative structures,
genres, political engagements, religious ideas, close readings of
particular episodes, etc. Graduate students are especially encouraged
to submit proposals.
Abstracts: 200 words
Due: 1 march 2011
Please send abstracts and inquiries to both Kenneth Gross
([log in to unmask]) Philip Schwyzer ([log in to unmask]).
“Spenser’s Media”
A session on the culture of writing and printing in which Spenser’s
works take and change shape. Topics might include Spenser and
mise-en-page; variation and revision; illustrated verse; books as
literary-historical evidence; Spenser’s work in libraries; Spenser’s
publishers and printers.
Abstracts: 200 words
Due: 10 March 2011
Please send abstracts and proposals to Joseph Lowenstein
([log in to unmask]).
Also please remember our earlier CFP:
“Spenser, Donne, and the Work of Poetry”
The International Spenser Society and The John Donne Society seek
papers for a joint session on “Spenser, Donne, and the Work of Poetry”
at the 2012 MLA convention in Seattle. Contributors might explore the
two poets’ similar or contrasting attitudes toward such work, ranging
from the “work” of poetic making and the shaping of poetic fictions to
the “work” they thought poetry accomplished, either in the social
sphere or in the individual reader. Papers might examine these poets’
attitudes toward their audiences, their sense of poetry as a vocation,
the material shape of the poet’s texts (the printed or written
“work”), as well as how their texts frame the work or labor of reading
poetry, or how Spenser and Donne view the “wild work” of fancy more
broadly. This latter emphasis might include questions about how Donne
reads Spenser.
Abstracts: 200 words
Due: 1 March 2011
Contributors should send abstracts and inquiries to both Kenneth
Gross, Department of English, University of Rochester,
[log in to unmask] and Sean McDowell, Department of English, Seattle
University, [log in to unmask]
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