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CFP: Culture of Reading, past and present
APPROVED PANEL IN THE LITERATURE & SOCIETY SECTION and possible collection of essays for publication
FOR THE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
PCA/ACA ANNUAL MEETING, April 12th-15th, 2006
ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
DEADLINE: OCT 21, 2005.
In the epilogue to her 2002 book ?Forgotten Readers,? Elizabeth McHenry draws connections between the African American literary societies of the Nineteenth Century and Oprah?s Book Club. She writes, ?The [latter] book club?s success is indicative of the extent to which texts, even if read in solitude, elicit in their readers responses that demand a forum for sharing.? The statement is at once obvious and unconvincing. In today?s book marketplace, who demands what, and vice versa?
This panel hopes to combine very different fields of historical literary culture and popular culture studies. Can their common ground uncover an evolution/commonality with political, psychological, and/or economic implications? We are interested in papers that address some specific historical reading groups and literary societies, but also hope to have contributions that give some cultural analysis of current trends in reading groups, or "book clubs." Possibly of interest: reading communities as arbiters of taste, increasing professionalization* and
commericialization of reading, community-sponsored reading.
*("professionalization" meaning the movement for groups to seek a higher level of structure and a depth of consideration beyond the means of an adhoc collection of social acquaintances.)
Send 300-500 word abstracts by 10/21/05. All submissions will also be considered for possible volume of collected essays on same.
Susan Hays Bussey
Department of English
Wake Forest University
(336)758-5387
[email protected]
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CFP: Culture of Reading, past and present
CFP: Culture of Reading, past and present
APPROVED PANEL IN THE LITERATURE & SOCIETY SECTION and possible collection of essays for publication
FOR THE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
PCA/ACA ANNUAL MEETING, April 12th-15th, 2006
ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
DEADLINE: OCT 21, 2005.
In the epilogue to her 2002 book ?Forgotten Readers,? Elizabeth McHenry draws connections between the African American literary societies of the Nineteenth Century and Oprah?s Book Club. She writes, ?The [latter] book club?s success is indicative of the extent to which texts, even if read in solitude, elicit in their readers responses that demand a forum for sharing.? The statement is at once obvious and unconvincing. In today?s book marketplace, who demands what, and vice versa?
This panel hopes to combine very different fields of historical literary culture and popular culture studies. Can their common ground uncover an evolution/commonality with political, psychological, and/or economic implications? We are interested in papers that address some specific historical reading groups and literary societies, but also hope to have contributions that give some cultural analysis of current trends in reading groups, or "book clubs." Possibly of interest: reading communities as arbiters of taste, increasing professionalization* and
commericialization of reading, community-sponsored reading.
*("professionalization" meaning the movement for groups to seek a higher level of structure and a depth of consideration beyond the means of an adhoc collection of social acquaintances.)
Send 300-500 word abstracts by 10/21/05. All submissions will also be considered for possible volume of collected essays on same.
Susan Hays Bussey
Department of English
Wake Forest University
(336)758-5387
[email protected]
- Cfp: Beyond The Book: Contemporary Cultures Of Reading
CFP: Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK 1 & 2 September 2007 Keynote Speakers: Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University) Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores,...
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CFP ALA (American Literature Association): Melville and the Book Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-01-20 SHARP at the ALA: Melville and the Book Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) American Literature Association Conference...
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CFP: (LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND POPULAR CULTURE RESEARCH AREA)POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2006 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Date: April 12-15, 2005 Deadline: November 1, 2005 The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual joint meeting with the...