Call for Proposals/Papers
Romanticism Session
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
14-16 October 1999
Proposals for papers of no more than ten minutes in length treating the
following (and related) topics in Romanticism are especially welcome:
How might the expansion of the Romantic canon and/or the decline of
canonicity cause scholars to reconsider the aesthetic presuppositions
used to interpret and evaluate Romantic-period writing? What new or
newly revisited aesthetics might be appropriate to a newly configured
Romanticism? What is the basis for the failure of the canon expansion
to include
Romantic-period poets of the laboring classes? Do current culturalist
approaches offer guidance in constructing or recognizing an aesthetic of
"doggerel" or other "low" forms of verse? What authors might embody a
new Romantic aesthetic? What aesthetics might be implied in Welsh,
Irish, and/or Scottish Romanticism?
Please send proposals of 300 words and a brief cv by 1 March 1999 to
Prof. Kevin Binfield
Dept. of English
Murray State Univ. P.O. Box 9
Murray, Kentucky 42071 USA
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For information on the 1999 RMMLA Conference, see
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/rmmla/conferences/conf99/conf99.asp
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