[Discussion] CFP: (dis)junctions: Pleasure and Theoretical (Mis)reading (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)

pleasure and theoretical (mis)reading

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
(dis)junctions: theory reloaded at the University of California,
Riverside's 12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

"I miss reading." We speak it quietly, within the closed confines of our
locked offices, dark library corners, or buried in cyberspace. While
paying respectful (and sometimes coerced) homage to the powerhouse of
THEORY, underground we express nostalgia for the love of reading and
writing. Is there a place in literature studies for pleasure, for our
first love? Are we misreading theory when we allow it to squeeze out the
pleasure of the text? Does any specific branch of theory open more
easily for the discussion of pleasure in either reading or writing? Does
cultural studies addresss the affective process of reading more
thoroughly than more classical theoretical traditions? Is the sometimes
intangible quality of pleasure superseded by the scientific dissection
of the  process itself? Is there any change in sight, or will the
compartmentalization continue between what scholars do for love and what
scholars do for money?

Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be emailed to
eweeks81@hotmail.com by January 7, 2005 (text in the body of the
message; please no attachments).

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/



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