MCLC: Difficulty in Modern/Contemporary Poetry--cfp

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Difficulty in Modern/Contemporary Poetry–cfp
Dear colleagues,
Following is an (early, I know) call for papers for the 2016 meeting of the AAS in Seattle, Washington, March 31-April 3. If you’re interested, please send a 250-word abstract to me at na347 at cornell.edu by May 15:
As criticism has evolved to meet the quickly shifting formal and aesthetic transformations of contemporary poetry, it has begun to make the difficulty of poetry legible as a generic and medial decision that artists make, often for quite concrete reasons. These choices are especially meaningful in modern and contemporary China. Expectations of poetry’s representation of mass voices appear both in the Classic of Poetry and in socialist poetics; the vernacular literature movement attempted to both spread and intensify the use of modern standard Chinese through the composition of poetry; contemporary regimes of censorship differentially limit self-expression according to its ability to reach wide audiences. This panel seeks to understand how difficulty is used as a tool in modern and contemporary Chinese poetry, and to both interrogate and fulfill the scholar’s role in explicating and interpreting difficult poems. Topics might include the Elevated/Earthly polemics, the hermeneutics of migrant poetry or other putatively “straightforward” verse practices, the difficulty of intermedial or multimedial poetry, difficulty and gendered writing, or close-reading interactions with new or understudied work.
I’m willing to revise the panel abstract slightly if I get a group of papers that look like the core of a good collaboration, so feel free to submit a variety of projects. Thanks very much for your time!
Best,
Nick Admussen <na347 at cornell.edu>
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature
Cornell University
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 11, 2015
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