Call for Abstracts for Modern Language Association Conference 2016 in Austin, Texas
MLA Seventeenth-Century French Literature Executive Committee
Dilemma: cas de conscience, decision-making, choosing between two (bad) alternatives; Cornelian or other; artistic, philosophical, political, or methodological; hesitation, impasse, and predicament in 17th-century literature and culture.300-word abstracts by March 15; Hélène Bilis, hbilis@wellesley.edu
Secrecy: key concept in love and politics, often at the intersection of both, in a wide variety of genres. Secrecy is embodied, it requires self-mastery of emotions, and can reveal affects when betrayed. 300-word abstract by March 15; Jean-Vincent Blanchard,jblanch1@swarthmore.edu
The following sessions is not guaranteed, but will be proposed by the Committee:
Free-thinking/-feeling: notions of libertinism and materialism in 17th-/18th-century France; medical, theological, and philosophical representations of body and mind; counter-discourses of Cartesianism – not limited to literature. 300-words abstract by March 15; Valentina Denzel, vdenzel@msu.edu