MLA Philadelphia 2017
Call for Papers: LLC 17th-Century French
Guaranteed Sessions:
“Biography:”
Stories, both past and contemporary, of real-life characters; portraits, episodes, anecdotes, and news as they relate to the general meaning and experience of a life; the intersection of reality, fiction, and style. 300-word abstract by March 15; Jean-Vincent Blanchard (jblanch1@swarthmore.edu).
"Constructing Realities--Fiction and Meta-Fiction: relations between history/reality and fictional worlds, quest for truth and its ﴾im﴿ possibilities in fiction, relationship between truth/reality and power structures. 300-word abstracts by March 15; Valentina Denzel, vdenzel@msu.edu"
Non-guaranteed collaborative session with LLC 16th-Century French
"Belief, Communities, and Politics in 16th- and 17th-century France.” Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard (by invitation)
Non-Guaranteed Session: (subject to approval by the MLA program committee once the panelists are chosen)
“Translating the 17th Century for/in the 21st Century”
Problematics/boundaries of translating classical texts, impact of translations on the construction and perceptions of classical culture; translating the ancien régime for today’s public. 300-word abstracts by March 15 to Faith.Beasley@Dartmouth.edu