[Discussion] CFP: Material Spaces of Urban Modernity (4/15/05; MSA, 11/3/05-11/6/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

"Material Spaces of Urban Modernity"

While city streets have long been recognized as a key location for the
production of modernist texts, little attention has been paid to other
sites in the modern metropolis. This proposed panel for the Modernist
Studies Association 2005 Conference in Chicago (3-6 November) will
consider representations of material spaces in the modernist city that
are in neither public nor private spheres. These might include (in part):

-restaurants, cafes
-museums
-shops
-lecture halls, art galleries
-theaters, music halls
-omnibuses, cabs, train compartments
-parks

How are narrative engagements with modernity shaped by such material
spaces? Where do material spaces intersect (or not) with metaphorical
and textual spaces? How can the notion of modernism as a =93movement=94
be in dialogue with a spatial approach to narrative? I welcome papers
from all disciplines and critical approaches.

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Elizabeth Evans
(efevans@wisc.edu) by 15 April 2005.

For information about the conference, please see the MSA website:
http://msa.press.jhu.edu/msa7_info.htm

Elizabeth F. Evans
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison



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