Call for Papers:

 

Modernist Intimacies

 

Friday May 17, 2013.

 

Centre for Modernist Studies

University of Sussex

 

Responding to recent scholarly constellations of modernism, affect and intimacy this one-day symposium, hosted by the Centre for Modernist Studies at University of Sussex, seeks to explore new ways of thinking about modernist feeling and modernist intimacies. Are there such things as “modernist feelings”? How might different modernist narratives of emotion in psychoanalysis, literary theory, philosophy and medicine be made to collide, disrupt and form new points of contact? How do modernist bodies come together and apart?

 

We encourage papers from academics at all stages in their career and hope to encourage inter-generational discussions.

 

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

 

-Genealogies of modernist affect

-Narratives of (im)personality

-Modernist diaries, autobiographies and letters

– Scenes of intimacy and extimacy in modernist writing

-The role of affect in modernist cinema and/or other visual arts

-Touch, texture, and textuality

-Modernist emotional geographies

-Modernism and affective disorders

-Modernist archives of feeling

– Constructions of publicity and privacy in modernist writing

 

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (for 15-20 minute papers) and a short biography to Ruth Charnock at:  rnec20@sussex.ac.uk by 15^th January, 2013.

 

 

Religion, Philosophy and Myth in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry

 

Call for Papers

 

Plenary Speaker: Professor Valentine Cunningham

(Author of British Writers of the Thirties & Reading After Theory)

Seminar Leader: Dr Jane Dowson

(Author of Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity)

 

Colloquium at University of Leicester, 6th September 2013

 

This colloquium responds to the burgeoning critical interest in the religious and spiritual themes within literary modernism. As Barry Spurr argues in Anglo-Catholic in Religion: T.S. Eliot and Christianity (2010), there is yet much scope for reconsidering Eliot’s poetry vis-à-vis his religious position. Eliot’s modernist poetics are inseparable from his spiritual sensibility, and his Anglo-Catholic belief was shaped by other discursiveinfluences such as anthropology and philosophy. Furthermore, Eliot’s spiritual development was not a logicalmatter and his devotional poetry is rarely didactic or transparent. This colloquium seeks to pay particular attention to the religious nuances of Eliot’s poetic development.

 

As a colloquium, the day will consist of discussion of papers which are submitted in full and circulated to all participants in advance. We welcome papers that consider the religious/spiritual implications of T.S. Eliot’s poetry. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

 

 

Please send proposals of 250-300 words to Dr Scott Freer sef17@le.ac.uk (author of Modernist Mythopoeia:The Twilight of the Gods, Palgrave 2013), by 31st March 2013. Delegates must submit completed papers(approx. 4,000 words) by 20th July 2013. Publishers will be approached with a proposal for a collection of essays based on the colloquium.