UPDATE: 21st Century Literature: Now Through History (2/24/07; 3/24/07)
Update: abstract due date has been extended to 2.24.07.
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=85 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.