Stephen Crane Society at ALA 2019

Stephen Crane Society sessions at ALA 2019 in Boston

http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/programs/

Thursday, May 23, 2019 9:00 – 10:20 am Session 1-E
New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship (Essex NC)
Organized by the Stephen Crane Society

Chair: Patrick K. Dooley, St. Bonaventure University

1. “Narrative Symmetries: Crane’s Maggie and the Bluebird of Mulberry Bend,” Vincent M. Basso, University of New Mexico

2. “‘Barbed-wire Entanglements’ and the ‘Tyranny of [Uncritical] Circumstances’: A Reappraisal of Stephen Crane’s Active Service in the Context of Yellow Journalism,” Mark J. Noonan, New York City College of Technology-C

Thursday, May 23, 2019 10:30 – 11:50 am Session 2-F
The Red Badge of Courage: New Perspectives (Essex NC)
Organized by the Stephen Crane Society

Chair: Steven Frye, California State University Bakersfield 13

1. “Violence, Secularity and Immanent Transcendence in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage,” Haein Park, Biola University

2. “‘The Furnace Roar of the Battle’: Realist Images of the Civil War as Secular Motivators in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage,” Sarah Morgan, Villanova University

3. “Fragmented Spectatorship in The Red Badge of Courage,” Jack Kerkering, Loyola University Chicago Audio-Visual Equipment required for both panels: projector and screen for PowerPoint presentations

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New Stephen Crane Society email list

The Stephen Crane Society now has a listserv: https://lists.wsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cranesociety

This moderated listserv is intended primarily as an information list for announcements, calls for papers, and so on rather than as a discussion list. If you’d like to receive this information, please sign up at the link.

 

Stephen Crane Studies 2018 (vol. 23, 1&2) mailed in December

The most recent edition of Stephen Crane Studies (volume 23, numbers 1 &2, for 2018) was mailed to subscribers in December 2018. If you’ve subscribed but didn’t receive one, please let me know (campbelld@wsu.edu).

 

Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society, ALA 2019 (due 1/15/19)

Only 3 days left to submit your proposal!

Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society, ALA 2019

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 23-26, 2019. All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:

• Crane’s depiction of war
• Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)
• Crane’s depiction of the city
• Crane’s poetry
• Crane’s journalism
• the Sullivan County tales and sketches
• the Western stories
• the Whilomville stories
• one of Crane’s lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O’Ruddy)
• Crane’s depiction of women
• Crane’s relationship with other writers, e. g., Garland, Howells, Conrad, or Frederic
• Crane’s influence on later writers

 

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

 

You may also propose a roundtable discussion on, say, teaching Crane’s short stories.

 

Please email abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by January 15, 2019, to the program chair:

 

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

 

For more information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. If you have specific questions about ALA, contact the Conference Director and Executive Coordinator of ALA, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield, at carr@georgiasouthern.edu or the Executive Director of ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen, at ab23@princeton.edu.

CFP: Stephen Crane Society Panels at ALA

Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society, ALA 2019

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 23-26, 2019. All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:

• Crane’s depiction of war
• Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)
• Crane’s depiction of the city
• Crane’s poetry
• Crane’s journalism
• the Sullivan County tales and sketches
• the Western stories
• the Whilomville stories
• one of Crane’s lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O’Ruddy)
• Crane’s depiction of women
• Crane’s relationship with other writers, e. g., Garland, Howells, Conrad, or Frederic
• Crane’s influence on later writers

 

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

 

You may also propose a roundtable discussion on, say, teaching Crane’s short stories.

 

Please email abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by January 15, 2019, to the program chair:

 

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

 

For more information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. If you have specific questions about ALA, contact the Conference Director and Executive Coordinator of ALA, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield, at carr@georgiasouthern.edu or the Executive Director of ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen, at ab23@princeton.edu.

Evening with Stephen Crane at Manhattan Repertory Theatre August 24-25, 2018

An Evening with Stephen Crane at Manhattan Repertory Theatre August 24-25, 2018. Written by SCS member Phil Paradis. Reservations at www.manhattanrep.com.

Manuscript of “The Blue Hotel” extant?

From Anthony Splendora:

  Is a known MS of “The Blue Hotel” extant anywhere?

I think I have detected an endemic misprint in “The Blue Hotel,” near the end of Ch.V, where cards are scattered when their board is upended, reflecting “the war that was waging above them.” I know that in Crane just about anything is possible, but nowhere else in his work do I find a transitive present participle (!) inverted like that. I think he might have meant, and perhaps actual wrote, “raging above them.” I cite for your considered delectation the 1984 Library of America version (ed. J.C. Levinson) of Crane’s “Hunting Wild Hogs” sketch of 1892, where “the yelp of the hounds” is rendered “the help of the hounds” (p. 484, I think).

As you know, “TBH” was written and published in 1898, so near the end of SC’s life in fact, and in America while he was living in England yet, that it is possible he never saw it again after sending it off across the ocean. Only a MS, if legible, can show what he wrote.