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The Function of Modernist Criticism (in Its Time and Ours) - MSA 2014, Pittsburgh, PA Nov 6-9, 2014

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Sunday, March 23, 2014 - 9:10pm

Daniel Nutters / Temple University

In Criticism in the Wilderness (1980), Geoffrey Hartman argued that criticism exists within literature. Working under this assumption – that criticism functions as a part of literary history – this panel asks how the study of critics writing during the first half of the 20th century help us understand both the poetry and fiction of that period (or art in general) and/or help us come to terms with our tasks as scholars in the 21st century. In what ways, in other words, does the criticism of Richards, Wilson, Blackmur, Burke, Trilling, Leavis, Auerbach, the New Critics, or even an Americanist like Matthiessen, borrow, revise, draw upon, or subvert modernist "literary" techniques?

Culrun 2014: "The Humanities, Conflict and Development in Africa

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Sunday, March 23, 2014 - 8:39pm

Redeemer's University, Ogun State, Nigeria

The College of Humanities of Redeemer's University, a private university, in Redemption City, Ogun State, Nigeria, invites you to its first international conference which will hold from May 27th to 28th, 2014, under the theme: "The Humanities, Conflict and Development in Africa".

CLASH 2014: (Non)Belonging: (Re)Reading Identities [submission deadline June 30th]

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Sunday, March 23, 2014 - 7:09pm

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

(Non)Belonging: (Re)Reading Identities

Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
5-6 December 2014

In cooperation with:
Institute of German Studies
Institute Romance Languages and Literatures
Institute of Russian Studies

[UPDATE] Liminality in American Literature

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Sunday, March 23, 2014 - 4:58pm

PAMLA Conference 2014, Riverside, CA

This panel welcomes papers considering the role and function of liminality, liminal personae, and liminal landscapes in works of American Literature. Paper topics are not limited to, but may include, the application of Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, Pat Mora, and Gloria Anzaldua. Papers should explore the connection between liminality and the American understanding of land, race, gender, identity, genre, or reality (though other considerations are welcome).

Hard-boiled Truths

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Sunday, March 23, 2014 - 1:01pm

University of Maine Farmington

"Hard-boiled Truths" looks at Haruki Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as a commentary on the trauma of World War II and the Holocaust with clear allegorical representations of major figures, events, and themes paralleling the two worlds, both literary and literal. Murakami saw the value of lessons in history and used the broad literary space to expand on its themes. Through characterization and intentional vagueness, Murakami expresses the connection between his literary work and the events and trauma of the Holocaust. This is important because it shows just how much literature can encompass in any genre.