Literature and The City
March 24, 2006
CFP:
'Literature and the City' is a conference organized and sponsored by the English Student Association at CUNY Graduate Center. This conference seeks to bring together graduate students from a wide variety of political, critical, and aesthetic perspectives to explore how cities function in literature as both subject and setting. We invite papers that examine the multitudinous ways in which cities have captured the literary imagination and that scrutinize the complex relationships between language, art, and metropolis.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
- New York
- London
- Paris
- Rome
- Holy Cities (Jerusalem, Mecca, etc.)
- Urban Architecture
- Imaginary/Fictionalized Cities
- The Ghetto
- The City and the Country
- The Marketplace
- Claustrophobia
- Multicultural Cities
- Alienation and Loneliness
- The City-State
- Bohemians
- Street Life
- City as Character
- City Dialects in Literature
- Vice, Decadence & the Demimonde
- Outside City Boundaries
- Divided Cities (Berlin, Jerusalem, Warsaw, etc.)
- The City and Revolution
- The City in Theater and Film
- Lyric Essays on the City
Please submit abstracts of 250 words to esa.conference@gmail.com by
December 1, 2005
