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American Literary Realism

American Literary Realism

Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : CFP)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Panel on American Literary Realism: Realism and Documentary
11th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY, October 28-30 2001

The late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States saw the rise of literary realism and naturalism. These literary movements strove to represent reality in a way that made a rapidly changing American social scene intelligible to a middle class reading public.

During the same period, social documentarians such as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, and reformers such as Jane Addams and her colleagues in the settlement house movement (among many others) were representing reality as well, with arguably similar goals.

This panel is seeking papers interested in exploring the relationships between literary realism and naturalism and other modes of representation which rely on realistic portrayals of "things as they are."

Possible topics might include:
The relationship between literary realism and photography The impulse of the realist movement to represent social reality Difficulties in representing the realities of others The politics of representing race, class, and gender Representations of urban space or industrial life The realism of "slumming" literature (e.g. Jack London's People of the Abyss)

Presentations will be 15-20 minutes. Proposals may be brief and informal. Please send them electronically to Courtney Maloney (cmaloney@andrew.cmu.edu), Dept. of English, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 by July 31, 20001.

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    Cortland NY