[Discussion] CFP: Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the USA (Cyprus) (9/1/05; EASA, 4/7/06-4/10/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Jaroslav Kusnir <jkusnir@fhpv.unipo.sk>

CFP: Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of=20
the USA
(Nicosia, Cyprus,04/07/06-04/10/06; EASA workshop)

Workshop 2
>From the Melting Pot of "Entropy" to a "Crack-potting" Ecriture

Jaroslav Ku=B9n=EDr, The University of Pre=B9ov, Slovakia
e-mail: jkusnir@fhpv.unipo.sk
Dan Horatiu Popescu
University of Oradea, Romania
e-mail: dhpopescu@yahoo.com

Some contemporary U.S. authors, loosely known as post-scientific or
crack-pot realist (David Foster Wallace, William Vollmann, Jonathan Franz=
en,
Richard Powers and others) give a certain critique of postmodern writers
such as Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover, or Donald Barthelme. T=
he
status of the earlier generation has changed from "non-conformist" to a
rather conformist one because of the institutionalization and
commodification of their works. This workshop welcomes papers dealing wit=
h
various aspects in the poetics of contemporary authors meant to reconside=
r,
re-write or "creatively" extend the poetics of the earlier generation.
Papers may also explore both generations' distrust of authority and its
manifestations vs. their need, and ways, to organize as well as disorgani=
ze
their fictional universe.

Deadline for proposals is September 1, 2005. Short abstracts (proposals) =
to
this workshop should be sent by e-mail to one of the addresses above, by
fax, or to:
Jaroslav Ku=B9n=EDr
Katedra anglick=E9ho jazyka a literat=FAry Fakulty humanitn=FDch a pr=EDr=
odn=FDch vied
Pre=B9ovskej univerzity
17.novembra 1
081 16 Pre=B9ov, Slovakia
fax: 00421-51-7725547

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