b) the American
Literature Association conference, held every year in May on the weekend
before Memorial Day. In odd years, the conference is held in Boston; in
even years, it is usually held on the west coast.
Calls for papers for these
and other conferences of interest to society members are posted below.
CFP: E.
E. Cummings Sessions at American Literature Association's 30th annual conference,
Boston, MA, May 23-26, 2019 (deadline 1/15/2019)
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2019 ALA. We
invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings' work or life. Proposals
that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
Cummings' prose (in recognition of the 2018 republication of A Miscellany
Revised)
Changes, shifts, and continuities in Cummings' style(s)
Cummings in 1918-1919 (Cummings at Camp Devens and after)
Cummings and Dada
Cummings among the modernists
Readings of little-studied Cummings poems
Re-readings of much-studied Cummings poems
Submit a 250 to 400 word abstract to Michael Webster (websterm@gvsu.edu)
by January 15, 2019.
[Deadline
past] CFP: E. E. Cummings Sessions
at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900,
University of Louisville, February 21-23, 2019(deadline 9/8/2018)
"god america i": Nation, Form, and Cummings' Poetics of the Self
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invite
abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 47th annual Louisville Conference on
Literature and Culture since 1900, February 21-23, 2019, at the University
of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). In
his Foreword to the first edition of A Miscellany
(1958), Cummings comments on his own growth: "whereas times can merely change,
an individual may grow." Taking up Cummings' self-confidence in his
own development, this panel invites abstracts that explore the extent of Cummings'
modernist growth as a poet-painter and as an individual. How does his poetic/aesthetic
stance of an individual grow through his engagement with his own experimental,
typographic modernism (as opposed to just the new art or the new poetry /
vers libre, or the organicism of the Romantics)? How does Cummings' poetics
of the self grow in ways in which he responds to the world of UN- (both to
"an established order" and to "an established disorder")? We invite
abstracts that examine Cummings' thematic and aesthetic provocations, not
only as an artist but also as a poetic ironist working through a cultural
i/eye. Topics ranging from -isms, nature, ecology, science, machinery, war,
propaganda, race, gender and papers discussing critical receptions of Cummings'
iconic or iconoclastic radicalism in language and poetic genres and other
literary forms are all welcome.
Please send 300-word abstracts (double-spaced and titled) and a brief bio
by September 8, 2018 to: gch7u@uvawise.edu
Gillian Huang-Tiller
Professor of English
Dept. of Language & Literature
128 Zehmer Hall
University of Virginia-Wise
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