34.1920, Calls: Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections in Modernist Studies

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Subject: 34.1920, Calls: Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections in Modernist Studies

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Date: 16-Jun-2023
From: Annalisa Federici [annalisa.federici at uniroma3.it]
Subject: Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections in Modernist Studies


Full Title: Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections
in Modernist Studies

Date: 22-May-2024 - 24-May-2024
Location: Roma Tre University, Department of Foreign Languages,
Literatures and Cultures, Italy
Contact Person: Annalisa Federici
Meeting Email: annalisa.federici at uniroma3.it

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2023

Meeting Description:

In the last few years, revaluations of modernism(s) – from Pressman’s
Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media (2021) to Mao’s The New
Modernist Studies (2021), or Rabaté and Spiropoulou’s Historical
Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (2022) – have
considerably developed, showing a marked “expansive tendency” (Mao and
Walkovitz 2008: 737). The claims of recent revisionist studies
concerning a variety of modernisms (diversely defined as “global”,
“transnational”, or “postcolonial”) encourage reflection on both
canonical and present forms of modernist poetics and works in
cultural, linguistic, and media terms. As Latham and Rogers have also
remarked, consistently with an ongoing and retroactive consideration
of the canon, locating modernism in an “alternative historical model
where technology and aesthetics intertwine” allows modernist studies
to “become radiant, expansive, and pervasive” (2021: 296), which also
implies detecting a persistence of modernist impulses towards
renovation into both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Perloff
2002; Mathias and D’Arcy 2015), in terms of theory as well as
practice.

Far from merely re-examining canonical works or expanding the canon,
what is most centrally new in the new modernist studies, Friedman
(2009) reminds us, is its openness to views associated with other
studies’ approaches, be these gender, race, media, or popular culture
studies. Moreover, the new modernist studies’ widening of its range of
primary interests has been inextricable from an effort to enlarge the
toolkit of methods and perspectives through which these new modernisms
could be investigated. In line with this view is also Pressman’s
suggestion that modernism is a “creative strategy” – rather than just
“a temporal period or movement” – which is “centrally about media”
(2021: 298-99). It is mainly for this reason that modernism’s broad
and transitional nature, together with its experimental and
(inter)medial turn, have highly prompted new theoretical and
methodological approaches. Crucially, critics have illustrated how
scholarship in different areas continues to furnish new paradigms and
lenses, reflecting explicitly on boundary crossings and cross-field
interchanges. They have also emphasized how other disciplines – such
as linguistics, stylistics (e.g. Balossi 2014), or translation studies
(e.g. Bosseaux 2007; Parks 2014) – may intersect at, as well as with,
literary and cultural studies, thus demonstrating the continuing
productivity of modernist studies’ porousness.

In accordance with claims that modernism’s original pursuit of
interdisciplinarity should be revived and intensified, this conference
aims to provide a venue for an extensive exploration of literary and
linguistic intersections in (the new) modernist studies. It therefore
proposes to bring together academics and practitioners from the areas
of both linguistics and literary criticism, so as to rethink and
discuss new trends in approaching the early twentieth century.
Research which investigates either of the areas (literary studies and
linguistics) is welcome, but we would especially appreciate any kind
of criss-crossing or interdisciplinary approach integrating the two
domains.

With its interdisciplinary focus, the conference invites contributions
from researchers in linguistic, literary, cultural and translation
studies, as well as from scholars in neighbouring disciplines with an
interest in the modernist period. We therefore welcome original paper
proposals that explore broad areas of intersection between linguistic
and literary studies using a wide range of scholarly approaches and
methodologies.




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