MSA/MLA
In 2007, the Modernist Studies Association was officially approved as an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, and became thereby eligible to sponsor two sessions at the annual MLA Convention. The MLA requires all presenters to be active members of the Modern Language Association. The MSA invites, but does not require, all presenters to join the Society.
MLA 2010/11*
The following session has been scheduled for the MLA Convention in Los Angeles, CA, 2011
January 8, 2011
1:45-3pm, Atrium III, J. W. Marriott
565. Modernism in Motion: Circulation, Reception, Consumption
Sean Latham (Moderator)
Pauline Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of Tulsa
David Earle
Assistant Professor of English
University of West Florida
Barbara Green
Associate Professor of English
University of Notre Dame
Faye Hammill
Senior Lecturer in English
University of Strathclyde
Gayle Rogers
Assistant Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
Abstracts for MLA Sessions
Roundtable
What happens when the idea of modernism is organized not around solitary genius and the scene of aesthetic production, but instead around diverse and multiform scenes of circulation, reception, and consumption? The members of this roundtable discussion will offer distinct responses to this question grounded in their own methodological approaches and exemplified in a brief reading of a single text or object. They will then be asked to speculate briefly in conversation with one another about how the shift to consumption might transform our increasingly unstable conception of modernism as both an historical periodic and a set of distinctive aesthetic practices. The roundtable will conclude with a colloquy directed by the moderator designed to bring the audience into discussion with the panelists.
*Due to change in conference scheduling, the MLA Convention "skipped" 2010.
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