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PARODY: RE-VISIONING GOETHE The Goethe Society of North America invites proposals for a panel on the forms and functions of parody in and of Goethe’s work at the 2003 MLA Convention, 27-30 December in San Diego. Goethe still provokes. 250 years after Nicolai remodeled the sorrows into Die Freuden des jungen Werthers, Enzensberger wrote Nieder mit Goethe! Eine Liebeserklärung. Parody challenges authority while reinscribing it. No wonder that Goethe, who himself was an avid practitioner of parody in his early career, later judges such subversive transgressions ambivalently. Parody seems to mark the intersections between invention and critique, adaptation and revision, combination and competition, similarity and difference. This panel is interested in re-visioning Goethe by examining parodies in diverse media and from a broad range of theoretical orientations and methodological approaches. With a view to Goethe, papers might focus on the pragmatics of parody: on effects ranging from ridicule to reverence, on forms from the comic to the ironic or on contexts from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Papers might consider Goethe in regards to a variety of parodistic discourses including pastiche, travesty, satire, caricature or burlesque. Papers might also explore more theoretical perspectives such as those of Schlegel, Bakhtin, Deleuze, Genette, Kristeva or Hutcheon in relation to Goethe and parody. Feminist perspectives are especially welcome! Panelists must be MLA members. Please submit 1-2 page proposals by March 15th, 2003 to: Angela Borchert Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University College 256 The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada E-Mail: [log in to unmask] (paste-in message preferred) Fax: (519) 661-4093