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

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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.

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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.

Did Stephen Crane read Emily Dickinson? And was he inspired by her poetry?

Did Stephen Crane read Emily Dickinson? And was he inspired by her poetry?

If you’re in the mood for a literary mystery, here’s a post that traces the sources, here’s a post on the subject: https://donnamcampbell.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/did-stephen-crane-read-emily-dickinson-better-still-did-w-d-howells-read-dickinsons-poetry-to-crane/

Stephen Crane Society at ALA: Friday, May 25

Friday, May 25, 2018 11:10 am – 12:30 pm

Session 9-C New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship (Pacific D)

Organized by the Stephen Crane Society

Chair: Adam H. Wood, Salisbury University

1. “‘Deep History’ in Crane’s Poetry,” Donald Vanouse, Emeritus, SUNY Oswego

2. “Humoring Affectation in Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and War Is Kind,” Andrew Dorkin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

3. “The Peter Newell/Stephen Crane Collaboration in the Tales of Whilomville,” Patrick K. Dooley, St. Bonaventure University

Stephen Crane Panel at ALA 2018

The Stephen Crane Society is sponsoring a session at ALA 2018 in San Francisco.  Here’s the entire program: http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/

Session 9-C New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship Organized by the Stephen Crane Society

Friday, May 25 11:10-12:30

Chair: Adam H. Wood, Salisbury University

1. “’Deep History’ in Crane’s Poetry,” Donald Vanouse, Emeritus, SUNY Oswego
2. “Humoring Affectation in Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and War Is Kind,” Andrew Dorkin, University at Buffalo, SUNY
3. “The Peter Newell/Stephen Crane Collaboration in the Tales of Whilomville,” Patrick K. Dooley, St. Bonaventure University

Please join us!