CFP: 21st Century Literature: Now Through History (grad) (2/10/07; 3/24/07)
21st Century Literature: Now through History
Madison Conference -- March 24, 2007
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
"These imponderables are what I am finally concerned
with =96 our sense of the ground under and around us, our ...sense of
where is it in time we find ourselves=85 [O]ur relation =96 individually
and collectively =96 to the idea of past, present, and future has been
radically modified. A great many people now live with the feeling
that both the historical and the personal past exist on the other
side of a widening gulf, while the future seems to press down
with a palpable urgency."
=96Sven Birkerts, =93The Millennial Warp=94