Modernist Transgressions (MLA, 6-9 Jan. 2011, Los Angeles)
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Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Stanford University
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Proposed MLA Special Session (Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011)
Modernist Transgressions
Submission requirements: 500-word abstracts, deadline: 15 March 2010
- Sexual, aesthetic, metaphysical transgression and excess in modernist literature and culture from 1880s-1940s
- theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of transgression and excess in relation to modernity, e.g. in Nietzsche, Wilde, Bataille, Foucault, and others.
Please contact Petra Dierkes-Thrun (pdthrun@stanford.edu).
This special session is contingent upon approval of the MLA program committee.