What question marks? The text left my computer clean! Quoting Robert Kibler <[log in to unmask]> on Thu, 5 Dec 2013 21:52:04 +0000: > Here is one without all of the questions marks in it--though I > wonder if the Listserv doesn't add them: > > Call for Papers, American Literature Association, May 22-25, 2014 > Washington DC > “Ezra Pound and Other World Cultures” sponsored by the Ezra Pound Society > > “All ages are contemporaneous,” Ezra Pound writes in 1910, > especially in literature. To be sure, his life work drew a vast > array of other peoples, their worlds, their ideas, into his own > contemporaneous literary universe. We know the people, the places, > and the ideas drawn together. But it works the other way too, for > Pound enters into interpretive dialogues with other worlds > understood not just as parts of his own vision, but also as entities > discrete unto themselves. > In this call for papers we seek scholars, artists, and even > performers game to undertake an examination, broadly considered, of > other-world cultures engaged by Pound. What various ends do his > appropriations of them serve, and how is his own literary universe > co-opted, disrupted, rerupted, counterrupted or changed by the > exchange? We are in search of new meaning here, and fresh paths. > Please send your 350 word abstracts as Word documents both to Robert > Kibler, panel organizer, at [log in to unmask], and to > Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Secretary, Ezra Pound society, at > [log in to unmask], no later than Jan 10, 2014. Onward! > > "Foolish is he who stands guard over my intentions, but pays no heed > to his own. > Theognis, lines 439-40, Greek Elegiac Poetry, Loeb Classic > > Robert E. Kibler, PhD > Professor of Literature and Humanities > Minot State University, Minot North Dakota > 701 858 3876 > > > ________________________________________ > From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Roxana Preda > [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 2:34 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: calls for papers > > Dear Poundians, > > We have begun preparations for the two panels at the American > Literature Association Conference in Washington DC, which will take > place on May 22-25, 2014. Please find the society calls for papers > below. > > The first panel, entitled ?Ezra Pound and Other World Cultures,? is > being organized by Robert Kibler. Here is Professor Kibler?s call for > papers: > > ?All ages are contemporaneous? especially in literature, Ezra Pound > wrote in 1910. To be sure, his life work drew a vast array of other > peoples, their worlds, their ideas, into his own contemporaneous > literary universe. We know the people, the places, and the ideas drawn > together. But it works the other way too, for Pound enters into > interpretive dialogues with other worlds, understood not just as parts > of his own vision, but also as entities discrete unto themselves. > In this call for papers we seek scholars, artists, and even performers > to undertake an examination, broadly considered, of other-world > cultures engaged by Pound. What various ends do his appropriations of > them serve, and how is his own literary universe co-opted, disrupted, > or transformed by the exchange? We are in search of new meaning here > and fresh paths. Please send your 350 word abstracts as Word documents > both to Robert Kibler, panel organizer, at > [log in to unmask], and to Demetres Tryphonopoulos, > Secretary, Ezra Pound Society, at [log in to unmask], no later than > January 10, 2014. > > The second panel, organized by Demetres Tryphonopoulos, will be on any > aspect of Pound?s relationship with Archibald MacLeish, including > their correspondence, Pound?s reception of MacLeish?s poetry, and > MacLeish?s role in ending Pound?s incarceration at St. Elizabeths. > Please send your 350 word abstracts as Word documents to Demetres > Tryphonopoulos, Secretary, Ezra Pound Society, at [log in to unmask] no > later than January 10, 2014. > > For information on the ALA and its 2014 meeting, please see the ALA > website at http://alaconf.org. > > With all my best, > Roxana > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.