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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:00:42 -0500
vTo: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: A conference call
From: "Dustin C. Pascoe" <dcpasc0@pop.uky.edu>
*** Call For Papers ***
The 1998 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference,
St. Louis, Missouri, November 5-7, 1998.
Session Title: "The Nabokov Effect"
This session will explore the rich legacy Vladimir Nabokov has left
American literature. Papers are encouraged which trace echoes of his work,
allusions, or similar motifs and styles. Since his influence on many of
our most important "postmodern" authors has been quite significant, we have
modern novels which owe a good deal of their subject matter to Nabokov
(like A. M. Holmes's The End of Alice), or which play with structures,
ylanguage and allusions (like Richard Powers's The Gold-Bug Variations).
It
will also be helpful to explore the way Nabokov's adverse reactions to
non-Formalist trends in criticism (primarily for him, Marxism and
Psychoanalysis) have continued to find resonance in the art-as-serious-play
aesthetic of much postmodern writing (see Mark Leyner, for instance). This
session will contribute to American literary genealogy, and has the
potential to show links unseen before.
Any and all critical approaches are welcome.
Please send an abstract of approximately 300 words by Monday, 20 April to:
Dustin C. Pascoe
Department of English
1215 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:00:42 -0500
vTo: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: A conference call
From: "Dustin C. Pascoe" <dcpasc0@pop.uky.edu>
*** Call For Papers ***
The 1998 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference,
St. Louis, Missouri, November 5-7, 1998.
Session Title: "The Nabokov Effect"
This session will explore the rich legacy Vladimir Nabokov has left
American literature. Papers are encouraged which trace echoes of his work,
allusions, or similar motifs and styles. Since his influence on many of
our most important "postmodern" authors has been quite significant, we have
modern novels which owe a good deal of their subject matter to Nabokov
(like A. M. Holmes's The End of Alice), or which play with structures,
ylanguage and allusions (like Richard Powers's The Gold-Bug Variations).
It
will also be helpful to explore the way Nabokov's adverse reactions to
non-Formalist trends in criticism (primarily for him, Marxism and
Psychoanalysis) have continued to find resonance in the art-as-serious-play
aesthetic of much postmodern writing (see Mark Leyner, for instance). This
session will contribute to American literary genealogy, and has the
potential to show links unseen before.
Any and all critical approaches are welcome.
Please send an abstract of approximately 300 words by Monday, 20 April to:
Dustin C. Pascoe
Department of English
1215 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506