The Society for Critical Exchange
 
2003 Northeast Modern Language Association Panels
Friday, 07 March
Boston, MA
 
Conjunctions/Disjunctions Between Aesthetics and Politics
 
 

Conjunctions/Disjunctions between Aesthetics and Politics I: Sensibility and Subjectivity

Session 14, 8:30-9:45 in Thomas Paine B

Chair: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College

 
(1) "Articulating the Seams: Race as Aesthetic, Race as Political"
Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College

(2) "On Aesthetic Judgment and W.E.B. DuBois: A Kantian Reading of 'New Negro' Poetics"
Erika R. Williams, Wellesley College

(3) "Anaesthetic Criminals, Oversensitive Artists: Havelock Ellis' and Max Nordau's Aestheticism"
David Wallace Pansing, Brown University

   
   

 

Conjunctions/Disjunctions between Aesthetics and Politics II: Social/Aesthetic Order

Session 30, 10:15-11:30 in Thomas Paine B

Chair: Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College

   
(1) "The Aristocracy of Finer Senses: Bourdieu's Rules of Art, the Ideology of Gifts, and the Politics of Aesthetic Perception"
Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College
 
(2) "The Value of Nothing: The Beggar's Opera, Ballads, and the Idea of 'Strict Poetical Justice'"
Steve Newman, Temple University
 
(3) "The Poetics of Nearness, The Politics of the Open: Gadamer and Contemporary American Avant-Garde Verse"
Judy Halden-Sullivan, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
 

Respondent: David K. Heckerl, Saint Mary's University


 

Conjunctions/Disjunctions between Aesthetics and Politics III: Film and Television

Session 41, 1:00-2:15 in Thomas Paine B


Chair: Jennifer Barker, Indiana University
   
(1) "H.D. and Leni Riefenstahl: Film and the Politics of Beauty, 1927-1934"
Jennifer Barker, Indiana University

   
(2) "La Pauvreté de ces Moyens: Lettrist Film Criticism and the Portrayal of the Radical"
Ally Field, Harvard University

   
(3) "Radical TV?: Towards the Construction of Ethical Engagement in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Rachel Smith, Rutgers University

   
   
 


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