Just a reminder that we'll be accepting proposals for the
panel on
Chandler at next year's Northeast MLA for another couple of
weeks.
Information below. We've recieved some cool-sounding
proposals, but
would love to have a few more to choose from. Sorry to
repost, but
sometimes people need to be reminded. Thanks, Michael
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:55:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: michael david sharp <msharp@umich.edu>
To: cfp@english.upenn.edu
Subject: CFP: Raymond Chandler and American Culture (9/15;
NEMLA)
Call for Papers
Northeast Modern Language Association
Pittsburgh, PA
April 16-17, 1999
*(Re-)Visions of Chandler*
Our image of the hardboiled detective owes a radical debt to
Raymond
Chandler. Chandler's signature style--that odd and
unpredictable amalgam
of cynicism, lyricism, and streetwise intelligence--has
profoundly shaped
our culture in many ways, some immediately recognizable,
others more
subtle. Especially influential has been his Philip Marlowe,
the
quintessential American hero: a rugged individualist with a
bent for
chivalry, a misanthrope with a conscience. This panel
explores the
impact of Chandler's work not only on our idea of crime
fiction but also
on American culture more broadly. In short, it considers the
cultural
production of the Chandleresque.
Papers may address any way that Chandler's work has been
received,
revised, and reproduced in America--in such relevant media as
art, music,
advertising, TV, video/board games, and, of course, writing.
Participants
might explore not only how others have revised Chandler, but
also
how Chandler himself drew upon and revised the Chandleresque.
Ultimately,
we hope, the panel will help to adumbrate the complex and
often vexed
relationship between literature and popular culture--and
contribute to a
new, reception-oriented understanding of Chandler's
importance as an
American author.
Organizers: Michael D. Sharp and Miranda B. Hickman
(University of
Michigan)
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15. Please send 1-2 pp. abstracts or
completed papers
(for 15-20 min. delivery) to
Michael D. Sharp
NEMLA/Raymond Chandler
Dept. of English Lang. and Lit.
3187 Angell Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
OR
e-mail proposals to
Michael Sharp (msharp@umich.edu) AND Miranda Hickman
(fulvia@umich.edu)
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