AAASS panel on Symbolism

[Kirsti Ekonen]

Dear Jason Merril,

I would like to participate in the panel on Russian Symbolism at the  
next AAASS conference. I will defend my doctoral dissertation on  
Russian Symbolist women?s writing in next March at the University of  
Tampere, Finland. The title of the dissertation is ?Tvorec, sub?ekt,  
zhenschina: strategii zhenskogo pis?ma v russkom simvolizme? and it  
shows the careers of five symbolist women writers (Zinaida Gippius,  
Liudmila Vil?kina, Poliksena Solov?eva, Nina Petrovsjaja and Lidiia  
Zinov?eva-Annibal) from the new angle. In the first part of the work I  
define the significance (?functions?) of the category of femininity in  
the Symbolist aesthetics. The second part of the work is devoted to  
the analysis how the central aesthetic and philosophical concept of  
femininity was understood, treated and reformulated in the work of the  
above named women writers.  On the ground of this research I would  
like to propose some possible topics for the panel on Symbolism:

-The functions of the category of femininity in the aesthetic  
discourse of Russian Symbolism.

-The construction of creative subjectivity in Russian Symbolism.

-Zinaida Gippius ? a feminist?

-Nina Petrovskaia ? a symbol of decadence.

-Lidiia Zinov?eva-Annibal ? Russian Diotima.

With kind regards from Finland,

Kirsti Ekonen



Quoting "Merrill, Jason" <merril25 at CAL.MSU.EDU>:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I am hoping to organize a panel for AAASS in Boston on Russian  
> Symbolism.  If you would like to present a paper, Chair, or serve as  
> Discussant, please contact me at merril25 at msu.edu.  Spasibo zaranee!
>
> Jason Merrill
> Associate Professor of Russian
> Dept. of Linguistics and Languages
> Michigan State University
> A-643 Wells Hall
> East Lansing, MI 48824
>
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