From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Wed Nov 5 23:37:26 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:37:26 -0800 Subject: [ilds] CFP - Archives and Networks of Modernism (book; 5 January 2009) Message-ID: <49129EB6.4010906@gmail.com> CALL FOR PAPERS /Archives and Networks of Modernism/, an edited collection, develops following a successful conference on Lawrence Durrell and the Archive in 2006. The book will expand beyond any single authorial focus to address the plurality of Modernist and Late Modernist networks and archives in an international perspective, in particular where each intersects or interrupts the other. Modernism exists for us only as an archive or window to the past: an ostensibly stable perspective through which we can understand and comment on its fragments and remainders. Under the spectre of authenticity, the archive dubiously attracts attention, yet foreclosing on the range of viable texts is equally suspect. Schools and networks exist in a similar tension, uncovering while also generating meaning. In actuality, these archives bespeak shifting networks, contexts, and politics, moving in parallax with interpretive agency and critical interventions. They offer a theoretical richness to challenge the bounds of intertextuality and question the limits of any text. The archive of Durrell's writing reflects just some aspects of this unstable network -- /Archives and Networks of Modernism/ takes this starting point for further discussion on the polyphony of Modernist and Late Modernist voices as well as the heteroglossia within each of them. An author who bridged many movements and genres, enjoyed ties to Western Europe, Greece, India, and Egypt, and maintained mutually-transformative correspondence with writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Elizabeth Smart, and Dylan Thomas, Durrell produced works that engage not only with other texts but also with the conflicting literary and aesthetic tensions of the past century. In this spirit, we invite papers that highlight the virtual and actual networks and archives of the early to mid-twentieth century, as well as speculations on the fate of both. Papers that discuss Durrell in these modernist contexts are welcome, but we especially encourage more general work on the broad topic of literary networks and modernist archives as ideas or as actualities. Possible topics may include * Networks and Archives as intentional objects with creators, politics, and aesthetics * Movements and schools like surrealism, futurism, symbolism, imagism, vorticism, or impressionism * Nationalist literary communities like Greek modernism, Anglo-Indian literature, Antipodean writings from the margins, or Welsh poetry * Thematic groupings like imperialism, war poetry, travel writing, children's literature, or experimental novels * Writing retreats and artistic enclaves like the Villa Seurat in Paris, the Yaddo Artists? Community, Shakespeare & Company, etc. * The physical archive as rhizomic connector, fashioning networks among otherwise unconnected authors * The archive as a modernist phenomenon * Theoretical or literary disparagement of the archive or network Articles of 6,000 - 10,000 words including footnotes and Works Cited, prepared according to the MLA Style Manual will be reviewed by at least two readers before decision. Please direct your submission or any questions to James Gifford, James Clawson, or Fiona Tomkinson at by 5 January 2009. Direct written correspondence to: James Gifford, Director University Core Fairleigh Dickinson University 842 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6, Canada