MCLC: Early Modern Lit--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: sabina knight <sabinaknight at gmail.com>
Subject: Early Modern Lit--cfp
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David Porter of the University of Michigan is organizing a seminar on
"Early Modern Chinese Literature in Comparative Perspective" for the next
meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) at Brown
University, March 29 - April 1, 2012.  If you are working on any projects
that foreground issues of comparison, please consider submitting a paper
proposal for this panel.

ACLA conferences organize papers into seminars with 8-12 participants
that extend over 2-3 days.  This format encourages more sustained
engagement with a particular set of questions than is possible at more
traditional academic conferences.

The description for the seminar is as follows:

"What is the usefulness (or otherwise) of a category like early modern
in thinking about Chinese literary history?  What kinds of comparative
methodologies are most useful/appropriate in thinking about the early
modern trans-Eurasian history of, say, extended vernacular fictions or
short amatory tales?  What new perspectives can such comparative
methodologies provide on Chinese/European literary works of this
period and the categories through which were accustomed to considering
them?"

You can find more information about the conference and submit a
proposal on the ACLA conference website at http://acla.org/acla2012/.
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is November 15, 2011.