CFP, ACLA 2009: The nineteenth century Russian novel and its transcultural tributaries

[Schur, Anna]

Dear  all,

I apologize for sending a private message to the list.

Anna Schur

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Dear Kate,

I am very interested in this panel but before I write an abstract I was
hoping you could clarify one thing for me. 

Are you looking for papers that would primarily theorize these various
engagements or would you also consider papers that will (merely)
illustrate them? 

I would like to submit a paper on _Notes from the House of the Dead_ as
a participant of the debate on prison discipline of the time. But this
paper does not make any particular theoretical claim, say, about
novelistic form, or the history of the novel's development, etc. Would a
paper like this be of interest? If so, I will be happy to write an
abstract and to submit it for your consideration.

I look forward to meeting you in person in Philadelphia.

Thank you  very much!
Anna Schur
  


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Subject: [SEELANGS] CFP, ACLA 2009: The nineteenth century Russian novel
and its transcultural tributaries

Hi all,
Ilya Kliger and I are asking for paper proposals for our seminar
entitled
"The nineteenth century Russian novel and its transcultural
tributaries,"
which will take place at the ACLA 2009 Annual Meeting, devoted to the
theme,
"Global Languages, Local Cultures," to be held at Harvard University on
March 26-29, 2009.  If you are unfamiliar with the format of the ACLA
conference, see here: http://www.acla.org/annualmeetingguidelines.html

The description of the seminar is below.

A latecomer to the European novelistic tradition, the Russian novel has
always been particularly aware of itself not only as a local phenomenon
but
as belonging to a global, transcultural, and intergeneric field.  Indeed
throughout its history, the Russian novel has consistently tested
generic,
national and disciplinary limits, crossing into the territory of its
near
neighbors (lyric, epic, drama) and more distant ones (philosophy,
theology,
art history, and other national literary and cultural traditions).  This
panel proposes to examine the nineteenth century Russian novelistic
tradition from an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.  It
will
be concerned with the fluid boundaries between the novel and the
cultural,
generic, and linguistic fields which help shape its development.  We
would
like to invite participants to submit abstracts related but not limited
to
the following topics: transcultural or transnational exchange, genre
memory,
visual culture, institutional context, spatio-temporal configurations,
historiography, comparative narratology.           
See http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=146

The deadline for abstracts is November 1: http://www.acla.org/submit/

If you're interested, please contact me (kate.holland at yale.edu) or Ilya
(ik32 at nyu.edu) or apply directly through the ACLA conference website.

Best wishes,
Kate Holland
Assistant Professor and DGS
Department of Slavic Langs and Lits
Yale University.

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