modernist studies

Jonathan Bayliss Society

Tangents and Divigations

MSA 2024 Panel

Transcendental Homelessness or Transcendental Localism: Topographies of Late Modernist Poetry

Global Modernism and Simultaneity

The University of Tokyo

September 14-15

Keynotes

Josephine Park (UPenn)

Christopher Bush (Northwestern)

With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)

 fresnostate.edu/woolf2024

“On or about December 1910 human character changed.”
— Virginia Woolf,  Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.

--- Redux: ---

“On or about December 2022 human character was called into question.”
— Informed by the emergence of ChaptGPT and evolving AI

Like no other, Marcel Proust was able to depict Paris, from the Belle Epoque to the interwar period, as the stage of a vast mundane theatre on which the last scions of aristocracy who were also successful writers like Robert de Montesquiou, Élisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre, Anna de Noailles, Marthe Bibesco, Carmen Sylva, Elena Vacaresco, Aurélie Ghika, and Ludmila Savitsky enacted their glamorous lives by turning them into striking performances.

In 1949, James Playstead Wood described the Saturday Evening Post as “seen and read everywhere. People came to know it as they knew their own names. Its influence was pervasive and immeasurable, spreading simultaneously in many directions. . . . The Post became both a powerful and continuing social force and almost a sign and symbol of the country itself.” Under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer, and for many decades after, the Post was the most widely read U.S. magazine of its era. And yet the Post has been all but invisible in contemporary scholarship on print culture.

There’s Jove’s “mythy mind” in “Sunday Morning,” Penelope’s meditative compositions in “The World as Meditation,” “Aeneas” bearing his father “from / The ruins of the past” in the uncollected “Tradition,” and a call-out to “Classical mythology” in general as “The greatest piece of fiction” toward the end of Adagia. Stevens invokes “Plato’s ghost” and “Aristotle’s skeleton” in “Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit”; he proposes and describes a “platonic person” in “The Pure Good of Theory”; he points to Plato and cites Socrates throughout his essays and letters. We find him freely, knowingly referring to Callimachus, Democritus, Parmenides, Sappho, Xenophon; to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid.

Submission Date: Monday, January 1st, 2024

Symposium Date: Saturday, April 6th, 2024

Note: Selected presenters will be notified by Friday, January 19th, 2024.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eva Díaz, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Pratt Institute School of Art and Design.

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS) Bengaluru is pleased to announce the organization of its first international conference, "Modernities Redefined: Perspectives from South Asia," to be held on February 22nd & 23rd, 2024, at GITAM, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

To promote excellence in Collaborative T&I research, the “International Center for Research on Collaborative Translation” rewards MA theses and PhD dissertations in English, French and Italian that make a significant professional/practical or academic contribution to the field of Collaborative Translation. 

The call is open to any student from any country. 

The winner will receive an honorarium of € 300 and a “Merit Diploma”. The Awards Ceremony to announce the winner will be celebrated in spring 2024 (the date of the Ceremony will be communicated).

Evaluation 

Call for Papers on James Joyce and Emerging Fields of Study

Following a year’s hiatus, Joyce Studies Annual has begun reviewing submissions for future issues. Under the new editorial direction of co-editors Keri Walsh and Christopher GoGwilt, JSA seeks to nurture a diverse range of creative and scholarly work intersecting with Joyce studies.

Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations

of the Ongoing Cultural Shift

edited by Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske

Peripheral Modernisms in Theory

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster

Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2024
Editor: Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech University
Contact email: pavel.andrade@ttu.edu

Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion