The ISS at the Modern Language Association Meeting
Dec. 27-30,
2006,
CALL FOR PAPERS
Has
concluded for 2006 but all MLA members are welcome to attend
the special Shaw
session # 227 which will take place 1:45-3:00 pm
Thursday, 28 December, in room 413 of the
MLA members
can discover how to register
for the 2006
MLA convention by going to
http://www.mla.org/convention.
GENERAL TOPIC: “Bernard Shaw at
150: Theater, Criticism, Contemporaneity”
In acknowledgment of
Bernard Shaw’s sesquicentennial, the International Shaw Society is sponsoring a
special session at the 2006 MLA December meeting that will explore Shaw's
writings, both dramatic and non-dramatic, in a contemporary context.
Since Shaw often figured himself as a prophet, in what ways did Shaw anticipate
twenty-first century approaches to drama, theater, performance, social reform,
politics, and critical and literary theory?
How does Shaw's theatrical-critical project still speak to us today?
Approaches grounded in either current events and mass
culture (e.g., "Creative Evolution," “Creationism,” and “Intelligent
Design” in
The co-coordinators of
the session will be Charles Joseph Del Dotto of
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