Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:44:54 -0800 (PST) From: Hannu Juhani Salmi <hansalmi@utu.fi> To: h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi Subject: CFP: The Uses of History in Fiction and Film (fwd)
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From: IN%"knolley@willamette.edu" "Ken Nolley" 20-FEB-1996 17:45:10.89 CALL FOR PAPERS
Twenty-First Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film
THE USES OF HISTORY IN FICTION AND FILM
October 17-October 19, 1996
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Suggestions for individual papers and panels of three or four papers are solicited for inclusion in a program examining the role of history with respect to literature and film. Proposals will be considered on all foreign literatures and film as well as works in English. Possible panel topics include:
Historiography Meta-History New Historiciam and Other Critical Approaches Novelized History Myth as History History and Memory Oral History and Written Literature Verity and Verisimilitude Reinterpretation of History through Literature Historical Films Cinematographic Representations of Historical Fiction Historical Fiction or Film as Ideology Civil War Fiction and Film The Veracity of the Western The March of Empire History and the New Nationalisms Popular Fiction and History Historical Fiction and Cinema by Women
Please send abstracts by May 1, 1996, to Armand Singer, Colloquium Director, Department of Foreign Languages, WVU, Morgantown, WV 26506-6298. Tel.: (304) 292-2282 (home; preferable) or (304) 293-5121 (office). Fax: (304) 293-7655. Submissions must include address, institutional affiliation, if any, telephone and fax numbers.
A limited number of papers read at the Colloquium and submitted to the Editorial Board, after their delivery, will be considered for publication in WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PHILOLOGICAL PAPERS.