AAASS Call for Papers for Panel, "The Lyric Self"

[Charlene Castellano]

The complete panel proposal is attached.  Here are two brief excerpts:

I write in search of proposals for papers that will constitute a panel on
“The Lyric Self” for the AAASS ’09 convention.  My thoughts on the topic
begin with the conference theme of “Reading and Writing Lives”, designed to
encourage explorations of “the nature and uses” of reading and writing
lives. ...  As to the writing, I ask how a self is created via lyric poetry
at any period in Russian literary history, and how such practice changes
over time (if indeed they do).  ).  Into these broad questions about the
lyric and the self, I wish to introduce a recent discussion of lyric poetry
by Jonathan Culler that appeared in the January 2008 PMLA,...

In viewing the lyric as a medium for the formation of subjectivity, your
conference papers might explore or argue for or against Culler’s
propositions, or you may wish to raise other questions related to creating a
self in lyric form.  Your approach may be taken through the example of one
or a spectrum of Russian writers.  Please send abstracts of papers to me
off-list at cc62 at andrew.cmu.edu.  Responses would be appreciated ASAP, but
no later than January 9.

Charlene Castellano, Ph.D.
Full Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University  

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