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From: Anne Savage <[log in to unmask]>
On May 28 and 29, 1999, McMaster University hosted a conference entitled
"Intersections: Medieval & Postmodern Forms, Theory & Semiotics." Those
two days witnessed a wide-ranging investigation of rich intra-cultural and
inter-cultural relations among the arts, sciences, philosophies,
theologies and social lives of the two eras. We are now collecting 8-10
additional essays to round out a selection of the conference papers for
publication in an anthology on intersections between writers and thinkers
from the Middle Ages and the Postmodern era. We are less interested in
straightforward treatments of medieval cultural artifacts from a
postmodern theoretical standpoint than in the ways artists and thinkers
important for postmodernism have used and been influenced by medieval
material. Our volume aims at illustrating some of the many possible
relations between two very diverse periods. Therefore we welcome essays
whose rigorous attention to interpretation anchors broad investigations
into the cultural thought of the two periods, and careful consideration of
the nature and purposes of the transhistorical, trans-cultural relation
posited.
You may wish to investigate some of the kinds of transhistorical relations
explored at the conference:
Parallels/ repetition/ common themes (What accounts for seemingly
unrelated patterns of resemblance?)
Reading the Medieval by the Postmodern (What possibilities of
illumination emerge by studying the Middle Ages from postmodern
perspectives? How are these used and why?)
Reading the Postmodern reading the Medieval (causal influence,
individual or generic: persisting forms/ retrospective
appropriation of medievalisms/ agonistic struggle)
Questions of periodization in these areas.
Papers will be due by November 15th, 2000. Please send inquiries,
abstracts or papers to: [log in to unmask] and
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Or by surface mail to:
Anne Savage
Dept. of English
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4L9.
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