[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Aestheticism: Dehumanizing or Rehumanizing? (5/1/06; collection)

[Nazan Haydari]

Aestheticism: De-humanizing or Re-humanizing Art, the
Artist, and the 
Artistic
Receptor? (Book Project)

Call for chapter proposals for the book project
“Aestheticism: 
De-humanizing
or Re-humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic
Receptor?” to be 
submitted
by August 2006.  Cambridge Scholarly Press has already
contacted me to 
express
an interest in publishing an edited collection on this
topic.

Deadline for chapter proposal (500-1000 words): May 1,
2006.

Deadline for the completed manuscript (15-30 pp.
including notes and 
works
cited) for accepted proposals: July 1, 2006.

Contact: Kelly Comfort (kcomfort at gatech.edu)

The question as to how literature, along with other
creative arts, both 
helps
to determine and is determined by the human is at the
forefront of 
nineteenth-
and early twentieth-century aestheticism in Europe and
the Americas. 
Art for
art’s sake–both as an approach toward art and as an
attitude toward 
life–
promotes freedom and autonomy, aims for newness and
originality, hails
pleasure over instruction, and prefers form and beauty
to content and 
truth.
As such, aestheticism invites us to consider the
relationship between 
art and
life, between the aesthetic and the social, especially
in light of its
purported severance between these two spheres.  By
widening the 
distance
between art and life and separating the aesthetic from
the social (i.e. 
from
the economic, scientific, pragmatic, political, etc.),
l’art pour l’art
critiques the dominant values that made such a
redefinition of art 
necessary
in the first place.

This edited collection aims to explore the extent to
which art for 
art’s sake
can be viewed as an attempt to re-humanize (rather
than de-humanize) 
art, the
artist, or the artistic receptor in ways that speak to
the question of 
what
makes us human.  Chapter proposals should thus discuss
how the 
aestheticist
view of art and literature is either life-sustaining
or life-evading.
Both theoretical and textual analyses are welcome.  I
am particularly
interested in papers that treat the following authors:
•	Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Verlaine, de
Montesquiou, Mallarmé,
        Debussy, Rimbaud, Proust
•	Swinburne, Moore, Rossetti, Whistler, Pater, Wilde,
Joyce
•	Kant, Schiller, Georg, Nietzsche, Rilke, Mann
•	Ortega y Gasset, Baroja, Unamuno, Gómez de la Serna
•	Kierkegaard
•	D’Annunzio
•	Poe, James, Chopin
•	Darío, Silva, Casal, Nájera, Infante

Additionally, I hope to broaden the scope beyond
Western Europe and the
Americas and also to expand the temporal period beyond
the nineteenth 
and
early twentieth centuries.  Comparative studies are
also of great 
interest.

Please send chapter proposals of 500-1000 words as a
Word attachment to 
Kelly
Comfort (kcomfort at gatech.edu) by May 1, 2006.

--
Kelly Comfort
Assistant Professor of Spanish
School of Modern Languages
Georgia Institute of Technology
613 Cherry Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0375
Phone: 404-385-0198
Fax:   404-894-0955
kcomfort at gatech.edu
www.modlangs.gatech.edu

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