[Discussion] The Space Between

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sixth Annual Conference of The Space Between:  Literature and Culture,
1914-1945.

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
June 3-5, 2004

The Sixth Annual Conference of The Space Between:  Literature and Culture,
1914-1945 will explore the myriad and often conflicting meanings of "the
city" as expressed in literature, film, photography, theater, creative
reportage, history, and art history.  Inspired by Fritz Lang's film, we are
calling for papers that examine relationships between the many written and
pictorial forms that represent the city and its artistic, rhetorical, and
symbolic meanings, in a given moment or as reflecting cultural and
historical change and crisis.

>From Lang's Weimar to Mina Loy's Paris, from the Harlem Renaissance to Leni
Reifenstahl's Berlin, and from Martha Gellhorn's Barcelona to Elizabeth
Bowen's Blitz and Marguerite Duras' "Hiroshima Mon Amour," and beyond, we
will examine the construction and deconstruction of such terms as habitat,
haven, ghetto, and muse as well as Metropolis as the center and periphery of
civilization, as the inspiration for an idealized Rural, and even as
anti-Metropolis.

Please send 300 word abstracts or 10 page double-spaced papers by January
31, 2004 to:  rissler.1@osu.edu

E-mail submissions are preferred, but hard copy proposals may be sent to:

Robin Rissler
Dept. of English
Ohio State University
461 Denney Hall
164 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH  43202

For information about our journal and membership in the Society for the
Space Between, please visit our website:  http://www.precursors.org/home.htm