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Forum sur la Littérature Française du XVIIe siècle (MLA Convention Seattle, janv. 2020)

Forum sur la Littérature Française du XVIIe siècle (MLA Convention Seattle, janv. 2020)

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Sylvaine Guyot)

Convention de la Modern Language Association (MLA)

Seattle, USA — 9-12 janvier 2020

Sessions organisées par le Forum sur la Littérature Française du XVIIe siècle (LLC 17th-Century French)

 

Theory’s Seventeenth Century

Reassessing the central role of seventeenth-century French texts and contexts in twentieth-century theory. How have theorists (mis-)read the seventeenth century? How can current dix-septiémiste work shed new light on the theory canon? 300-word abstracts to Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) by 15 March 2019.

 

The Discourses of Luxury in 17th-Century France

Intersection of politics, myth-making, and aesthetics in development of luxury; its impact on social culture, artistic practices, and national identity forging process; place of 17th century in emerging field of luxury studies. 300-word abstracts to Sylvaine Guyot (guyot@fas.harvard.edu) by 15 March 2019.

 

Troubles et Tourbillons: Toward a Materialist Poetics of Turbulence in the 17th Century

Disturbance, broadly construed: vortex, squall, drift, entropy, noise. Relation of natural philosophical principles of scattering, flux, or disarray to early modern poiesis. 250-word abstracts to Jeffrey N. Peters (jnp@uky.edu) by 15 March 2019.

 

Print and Digital Interfaces in Early Modern Literature

Role of interface (layout, multimedia, reference mechanisms: links, notes) in print and digital editions of early modern works. 200-word abstracts to Christophe Schuwey (christophe.schuwey@yale.edu) and Geoffrey Turnovsky (gt2@uw.edu) by 15 March 2019.