Dear all,
A small correction: in the first paragraph of my note of 17 February
I gave the wrong due date for abstracts for proposed panel on
"Spenser's Media." It's not March 15, but rather March 10 (the
correct date appears in the description of the panel itself).
Submissions for the two other panels, the open session and that on
Spenser and Donne, still have a due date of March 1.
thanks,
Ken Gross
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Kenneth Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I’m writing to remind everyone on the list of three Calls for Papers
> for sessions that the International Spenser Society will be sponsoring
> at the 2012 MLA Convention in Seattle, including one session
> co-sponsored with the John Donne Society. Due dates are coming up
> soon -- March 1 for two of them, March 15 for the other. Please
> alert any and all graduate students, and feel free to forward these to
> other list-servs, if the spirit moves you.
>
>
> 1. 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]).
>
>
> 2. “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]).
>
>
>
> 3. “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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