The address for submissions will be changed as of 6/1 -- Please send queries and electronic submissions to mike.reynolds@oberlin.edu; regular mail submissions should go to Mike Reynolds, 1483 Huron Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108. 1-2 page abstracts are still due by 7/3.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature
CORTLAND COLLEGE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
CORTLAND, NEW YORK 13045
OCTOBER 28-30, 2001
"Film and Literature: Imagining the Body"
Do we imagine the corporeal differently in written texts and film? Is there a common, foundational idea of 'the body' which underpins representations, regardless of medium? or might we use differences in textual mediation to reconsider our theories of the body? For this year's panel on film and literature, we seek papers which comparatively analyze representations of the body in a (broad) consideration of these and other questions. Paper topics may include: the portrayal of particular kinds of bodies (marked by race, gender, disability, age, sexuality, athletic pursuits, addictions of one kind or another); evocations of bodily affect (pain, pleasure ? how, for example, might we compare written and filmed pornography? written and filmed violence?); intimations of bodilessness (the spiritual, the supernatural); the imagined/implied bodies of the audience (and evocations of audience affect). We are interested in a variety of approaches (comparative studies of adaptations; close readings of texts; general outlines of theories; pedagogical practices and utility), so, please, read the call as open-endedly as possible.
1-2 page abstracts (for 20-minute papers) are due by 7/3/01 to Chair: Mike Reynolds Email: mike.reynolds@oberlin.edu (or deffbach@earthlink.net).