NAAS-2005 - Växjö University - May 26-29, 2005:
Poetics of
nonconformity
For many
groups of writers and poets, the 1950s and 60s were a period of dissent
and
battles with political conformity and other side effects of apparently
universal socio-economic prosperity in the USA. Several of these
groups, circles
or coteries formulated explicitly non-conformist poetics, either
implicitly in
their writings or explicitly as manifestoes, programmes etc.
This
panel invites papers that examine any aspects of these attempts at a
poetics of
nonconformity, but particularly papers that focus on the relationship
between
poetics and the materiality of text. As examples one could mention
self-imposed
poetic constraints relating to the length of line (cf. Ginsberg) or
stanza (f.
ex. use of the haiku form), strictures of stanza forms (f. ex. sestinas
and
villanelles of Ashbery), format of paper either in production or
reproduction
of the poem (f. ex. spools and loops of Kerouac and Ammons),
collaborative and
intergeneric art forms (f. ex. lithographic poems of O’Hara and
Rivers),
presence and absence of titles (cf. The New York School), disjunctive
writing
(f. ex. ‘enactment’ of Olson) etc.,etc.
Papers
dealing with representatives of The Beat Generation, The San Francisco
Renaissance, The Black Mountain Poets, The New York School, The Merry
Pranksters and other circles of writers, poets and artists are welcome.
Conveners:
Bent Sørensen &
Søren Hattesen Balle,
Dept.
of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Aalborg
University
Denmark