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2000 MMLA Convention
2-4 November
Kansas City, Missouri

 

   
 

Aesthetic(ism)s

Coordinators:
Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah (English)
Howard Horwitz, University of Utah (English)

   
 

Session One

(1) "Fidelity: Hardy, Shaftesbury, and the Cruelty of Aesthetics" Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah (English)

Discussant: Audrey Jaffe, Ohio State University (English)
(2) "Beauty, Justice, and the Not-so-human Subject" Nancy Glazener, University of Pittsburgh (English)

Discussant: Jennifer Fleissner, UCLA (English)
(3) "The Importance of Being Original: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Agency" David Wayne Thomas, University of Michigan (English)

Discussant: Megan Becker-Leckrone, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (English)
(4)

"Literary Discipline: The Salvation of Character and the Formation of English Studies in America" Howard Horwitz, University of Utah (English)

Discussant: Jeffrey Williams, University of Missouri, Columbia (English)
 

Session Two

(1) "Pater's Critical Spirit," Megan Becker-Leckrone, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (English)

Discussant: Mary Ann O'Farrell, Texas A & M University (English)
(2) "Henry Carey's Transcendental Economics" Richard Prud'homme Yale University (English)

Discussant: Howard Horwitz, University of Utah

(3) "Emerson and the Aesthetic Gymnastic of the Eye" Chris Diller, Berry College (Rhetoric and Writing)

Discussant: Richard Grusin, Georgia Institute of Technology (LCC)
(4) "A House, a Canal, a Statue, a Picture: Kant, Emerson, and the Interests of Art" Robert Chodat, Stanford University (English)
 

Discussant: Richard Grusin, Georgia Institute of Technology(LCC)
 

 

 

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