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> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:10:14 -0600
> From: TERRY L. TAYLOR, CO-EDITOR, H-ALBION <TAYLORT@ALPHA.NSULA.EDU>
> To: Multiple recipients of list H-ALBION <H-ALBION@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
> Subject: CFP: "The Gothic, The Human, & The Inhuman."
>
> From: SMTP%"aschmidt@toto.csustan.edu"
> "Arnold Schmidt" 7-APR-1997 15:50:54.41
>
> PLEASE CROSS-LIST
>
> Call For Papers and Panels on
> "The Gothic, The Human, & The Inhuman."
>
> I invite anyone interested in gothic themes to submit abstracts
> for individual papers or panels which explore the gothic in relation to
> "Constructions of the Human." Broadly, topics might include but are not
> limited to gothic influences on identity in gender, race, or religion as
> seen in gothic and horror fiction, television and films, the fine arts, or
> poetry.
>
> More specific topics might treat "Frankenstein," "The Monk,"
> "Dracula," or other gothic novels and/or their adaptations; gothic poetry
> (Young's "Night Thoughts" or other "Graveyard Poets," gothic ballads); the
> gothic and the fine arts (Dore, Fuseli's "Nightmare"), roots of the gothic
> (medieval archictecture, the slave and captivity narratives); postmodern
> conceptions of the gothic (Sedgwick, et al); the female gothic
> (Wollstonecraft's "Maria," Bronte's "Jane Eyre"); the Southern gothic
> (O'Connor, Faulkner, etc.); the anti-gothic (Jackson's "The Lottery,"
> Stephen King's "Christine"); or the comic gothic ("Rocky Horror Picture
> Show," "Young Frankenstein," "The Munsters," "The Adams Family.")
>
> For more information, please see the general CFP below.
>
> CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE HUMAN:
> CONFLICTS IN CULTURE, IDENTITY, TECHNOLOGY
>
> First Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
> CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS October 17-19, 1997
>
> We invite participants to explore "Constructions of the Human" in
> American, British, and/or World literature from any disciplinary
> perspective. Applicants working in such areas as Literature, Philosophy,
> History, Sociology, Psychology, Law, the Sciences, and the Fine Arts
> should submit abstracts of approximately 250 words for papers of 15
> minutes.
>
> Students might consider some aspect of the Human in relation to
> Cyborg Theory, Film Theory, Technology and the Machine, Images of the
> City, Identity, Gender/Sexuality, Reproductive Technology, The Monstrous,
> Alterity, Class, Labor and Leisure, Authority, Childhood, the Sentimental,
> Ethnicity, Personal/Public, and Literary vs. Nonliterary.
>
> Panels are especially welcome.
>
> A volume of essays arising from this conference is planned for virtual
> publication.
>
> Conference Location: CSU, Stanislaus, in Northern California, is
> situated midway between San Francisco and Yosemite. A day trip to
> Yosemite for participants is planned.
>
> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: April 18, 1997.
>
>
> Send abstracts to:
>
> Interdisciplinary Conference Committee
> English Department
> c/o The Graduate Journal
> California State University, Stanislaus
> 801 W. Monte Vista Avenue
> Turlock, CA 95382
>
> Please direct questions and inquiries to:
>
> e-mail - gradjou@toto.csustan.edu
> fax - (209) 667-3720 voice - (209) 667-3361
>
> OR
> Susan Campbell-Hartzell - schartze@toto.csustan.edu
> schart@mlode.com
>
>
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