CALL FOR PAPERS
2005 MLA Convention in Washington, D.C.
The MODERN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE ASSOCIATION (MALCA), an Allied Organization
of the MLA, is seeking proposals for the following two sessions, to be held at the
2005 MLA Convention in Washington, D.C.:
- Elfriede Jelinek. Critical treatments of any aspect of Elfriede Jelinek¹s o¦uvre.
Abstracts by March 15, 2005 to Imke Meyer (ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu).
- Austrian Film. Papers treating any aspect of Austrian cinema. Abstracts by March 15,
2005 to Imke Meyer (ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu).
PAMLA 2005: Program Copy
Panel:
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
Presiding Officer: Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College.
- A Botched Death for a Botched Life? The Execution Scene in Kafka¹s Der
Prozeß. Simona Moti, University of California, Irvine. 20 minutes.
The paper examines the final hours of Kafka¹s protagonist in terms of an
established protocol of execution from early modern penal history, as
recorded by Richard van Dülmen in "Theater des Schreckens" and Richard
Evans in "Rituals of Retribution." This protocol involved a ritualistic
sequence of events, most of which are carefully featured in Josef K.¹s
execution scene.
- Trakl¹s "schöne Leich." Laura A. McLary, University of Portland. 20 minutes.
Georg Trakl¹s poetry, obsessed with death and decay, was entirely typical of
the culture of early twentieth-century Austria-Hungary, which celebrated and aestheticized
death. His suicide in 1914 presented his admiring readers with a much-desired object
of adoration and contemplation: his dead body. Members of the Innsbruck-based Brenner
circle focused their attention on resurrecting Trakl¹s corpse for reinterrment in
Innsbruck, creating an extended version of the Austrian 'schöne Leich'," and defining the
focus of the literary magazine until its end in 1954.
- Angst and the Automobile: The Disorientation of the Pedestrian in
Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. Heidi Tilghman, University of Washington. 20 minutes.
Brief Description: The street--with its horseless carriages, electric
streetcars, racing coaches, bicycles, and oblivious pedestrians--is the locus
of modern Angst in Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. It demonstrates the
threat that the new century poses to the 19th-century city. The paper explores
the structural and psychological roles played by the street in the novel and
links it as well to the novel's more fundamental explorations of the physical
universe (relativity theory and quantum mechanics) and personal identity.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2005 PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference
November 11-13, 2005
Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
(MALCA is an affiliate of PAMLA)
Session on Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
Proposals on any aspect of Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are welcome and should be sent to
Imke Meyer
Dept. of German
101 N. Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610-526-5381
ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu
Proposals should be sent by March 30, 2005.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call For Papers
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Fifty-Ninth Annual Convention
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
October 20-22, 2005
(MALCA is an affiliate of RMMLA)
Paper proposals are due to session chairs by March 1, 2005.
Chair for this year¹s MALCA session is:
John Antosh, SUNY-Fredonia, Dept. of Modern Languages, Fredonia, NY 14063
vasas@a-znet.com; 716-673-3832
All topics on Austrian Studies are welcome.
For more information about RMMLA, visit their website:
http://www.rmmla.org/
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