ACLA 2016 Seminar: 'Proustian Awareness: Seeing, Reading, Listening with the author of 'la Recherche'

Date de tombée (deadline) : 23 septembre 2015
À : Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Publié le 2 septembre 2015 par Vincent Ferré (Source : Adeline Soldin)

Appel à Contributions : American Comparative Literature Association, 2016

Seminar: Proustian Awareness: Seeing, Reading, Listening, with the author of la recherche

Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Dates: 17-20 March, 2016

Abstract submission deadline: 23 September, 2015

Contact: Adeline Soldin, Dickinson College

Famous for his ponderings on the experience of art — literature, music, theater, paintings, architecture — Proust has long informed his readers’ awareness of their own aesthetic encounters and practices. Proust teaches us about sensorial awareness throughout his masterpiece, from his afternoons reading in Combray to the Balbec sunsets that evoke the fictional painter Elstir, to his spiritual engagement with Venetian architecture. The narrator of In Search of Lost Time champions the intertextual, emotional, and exceptional qualities of reading, looking, and listening. What is exceptional about art, Proust writes, is that that we are able to see the world through others’ eyes. How have Proust’s eyes enlightened your vision?

For Roland Barthes, Proust is “the reference work, the general mathesis, the mandala, of the whole literary cosmogony.” Do you, like Barthes, find Proust when reading Stendhal, or Nabokov or Morrison? Or maybe Proust has revolutionized your sensitivity towards a certain sonata, painting, or cathedral? This panel seeks proposals for papers that explore Proustian intersections — crossroads that are tied together with inspiration from his writing — in artistic work from any region or period. With this panel, we hope to learn more about how Proust continues to inflect the creation, reception, and critique of art in all its forms and around the world.

Please submit paper proposals (300-400 words) and short bios to soldina@dickinson.edu or on the ACLA website: http://www.acla.org/seminar/proustian-awareness-seeing-reading-listening-author-la-recherche by September 23, 2015.