[Discussion] CFP: Intermedia Theory (3/10/05; MLA '05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Musicians often argue that writing about music is a futile act,
equivalent to "dancing about architecture." Yet the prevalence of texts
that embody multiple media, and scholarship that effectively cross-
analyzes texts from different media, demonstrates that arts can indeed
invoke/recreate one another. Intermedia Theory hypothesizes that
cross-media interextualities necessarily reveal, confound, and reshape
preconceived textual boundaries, including genre, style, nation, time
period, authorship, and aesthetic. This panel seeks to illuminate the
myriad ways that cross-media intertextualities create an intermediate
space that refigures our concepts of text and Text.

Papers on this topic sought for a proposed Special Session at the Modern
Language Association convention in December: "Dancing About
Architecture: Creating Intermedia Theory." Please note: Though texts
from "new media" hold high potential for intermedia analysis, papers
addressing a broad range of textual intersections are encouraged. These
include, but are not limited to:
Literature
Oral Stories/Storytelling
Folklore
Folk Arts
Painting
Photography
Music
Architecture
Film
Dance
Theater
Textile Arts (fashion, costume, quilting)
Gaming
Cybertext
Scholarly Writing

Short CV and 400 word abstracts to Trinna S. Frever, frever@wayne.edu,
by March 10.



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