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CFP: Museum Discourse in/and Literature (MLA 2005)
Proposed Special Session
MLA December 27-30, 2005
Washington, D.C.
Deadline March 15, 2005
Andreas Huyssen (1995) has pointed out that ?Few who have written on the museum in the 1980s have . . . argued that we need to rethink (and not just out of a desire to deconstruct) the museum beyond the binary
parameters of avant-garde versus tradition, museum versus modernity (or postmodernity), transgression versus co-option, left cultural politics versus neoconservatism.? How can literary (and cultural) criticism
contribute to a rethinking of past and present museum theory and practice? How does literature (not limited to English-language) reproduce and/or critique museums? assumptions regarding nation, history, tradition, origin, authenticity, totality, art, universality, autonomy, race, class, and gender? How is literature mediated by museum discourse? How might the insights of museum studies be applied to the analysis of literature? Barbara Black (2000), Eric Gidal (2001), and Catherine Paul (2002) have demonstrated various approaches
to these questions. What other approaches are possible?
Papers dealing with the avant-garde, visual arts critique of museum theory and practice (e.g., Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism; Fluxus, Haacke, Buren, Broodthaers) will also be considered.
Please send 1-page abstracts and brief bio. by March 15 to John Pedro Schwartz.
John Pedro Schwartz
[email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Texas at Austin
Henderson Fellow
Department of English
University of Vermont
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CFP: Museum Discourse in/and Literature (MLA 2005)
CFP: Museum Discourse in/and Literature (MLA 2005)
Proposed Special Session
MLA December 27-30, 2005
Washington, D.C.
Deadline March 15, 2005
Andreas Huyssen (1995) has pointed out that ?Few who have written on the museum in the 1980s have . . . argued that we need to rethink (and not just out of a desire to deconstruct) the museum beyond the binary
parameters of avant-garde versus tradition, museum versus modernity (or postmodernity), transgression versus co-option, left cultural politics versus neoconservatism.? How can literary (and cultural) criticism
contribute to a rethinking of past and present museum theory and practice? How does literature (not limited to English-language) reproduce and/or critique museums? assumptions regarding nation, history, tradition, origin, authenticity, totality, art, universality, autonomy, race, class, and gender? How is literature mediated by museum discourse? How might the insights of museum studies be applied to the analysis of literature? Barbara Black (2000), Eric Gidal (2001), and Catherine Paul (2002) have demonstrated various approaches
to these questions. What other approaches are possible?
Papers dealing with the avant-garde, visual arts critique of museum theory and practice (e.g., Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism; Fluxus, Haacke, Buren, Broodthaers) will also be considered.
Please send 1-page abstracts and brief bio. by March 15 to John Pedro Schwartz
John Pedro Schwartz
[email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Texas at Austin
Henderson Fellow
Department of English
University of Vermont
- Cfp: Museum Utopias 2012 - A Conference
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