The Canadian Modernists Meet (7/31/02; 5/9/03-5/10/03)

Call for Papers

The Canadian Modernists Meet
A Symposium

University of Ottawa, May 9-10, 2003

Symposium Co-Chairs: Dean Irvine and Seymour Mayne

F. R. Scott's satirical poem "The Canadian Authors Meet" has long epitomized the emergent modernist's call for a new literary movement in Canada. Seventy-five years after the publication of Scott's poem in the McGill Fortnightly Review, questions about the making of literary modernism in Canada are still under investigation and increasingly subject to debate.

This symposium seeks to bring together critics, historians, editors, translators, and theorists whose research on late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literatures contributes to the study of modernism in Canada. Paper proposals are welcome on any issue related to modernism and Canadian literature from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century -- whether case studies of specific texts and authors, literary and cultural histories, theoretical applications, discussions of editorial problems and methods, or intermedia approaches.

Topics for papers are open, but may relate to one or more of the following:

• international contexts and influences
• cultural modernism, modernity, or modernization
• antimodernism, mass culture, or popular culture
• political and social organizations/movements
• writers' groups, associations, and foundations
• recordings, readings, films, and radio broadcasts
• visual art, illustration, and book/magazine design
• prefaces, editorials, and manifestos
• critics and reviewers
• little magazines and literary presses
• publishers and editors
• production, distribution, and marketing
• anthologies and anthologists
• translation and translators
• contemporary editing and editions of modernist authors