[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Theorizing Beyond High/Low (4/21/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Theorizing Beyond High/Low

This panel is part of the Midwest Modern Language Association annual
conference to be held in Chicago Nov. 9-11, 2006.

The Cultural Turn in literary studied was to a large degree predicated
on various critiques of high or elite culture (Frankfurt, Birmingham,
poststructural) that led to subsequent critical attention to mass or
popular culture. Ever since, both the concepts as well as the phenomena
of "high" and "low" or "mass" culture continue to be in play.

This panel seeks papers which address the ways in which high/low culture
has been theorized and the critical possibilities those critiques have
occasioned, as well as the problems that have ensued from critical
constructions of "high/low" and its obliteration. What critical
possibilities have been made available by various critiques of high
culture? What alternative versions of "culture" have become
institutionalized?  Has the analysis of low or popular culture devolved
back into a high culture pursuit? What critical paradigms come after the
obliteration of the high/low culture distinction?

The panel is eager for submission from a range of scholars, including
members new to the profession.

Send inquiries and 250 word abstracts to mark.m.freed at cmich.edu April
21, 2006



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