ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

This panel explores philosophical, literary, poetic, musical and cinematic discourses on the revolution of the senses, an examination of the conceptual division between the sensible and the intelligible.  Contested sites include theories of the human, literary relations and representations, and intermediality, from the eighteenth century to the present.  Papers address topics ranging from metaphysics and the senses; notions of sensibility, sensuality and sensuousness; the sensory relationship to books and literary formalism; sensory poetics; poetry, psychology and psychoanalysis; artistic translation across media; the relationship between language and image, and language and sound; and postmodern multi-sensory effects.

Friday, March 24

Menahem Goldenberg, Tel Aviv University
“The Sense of Human Sense”
J. Stephen Murphy, University of California, Berkeley
“Literary Anesthesia or Why Formalism Never Made Sense”
Angela May Mergenthaler, Princeton University
“Poetry and the Psyche (Lasker-Schüler, Apollinaire, Freud, Bergson)”

Saturday, March 25

Stefanie Harris, Northwestern University
“Phonograph Curves and Primal Sounds: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sensory Poetics”
Elena G. Oxman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“‘Images Without Metaphor’: The Sensation of Cinema in Impressionist Theory”
Brian Adam Smith, Emory University
“It’s About Time: Music, Postmodernism, and New Reconfigurations of the Image/Sound/Text Experience”

Affiliated Seminar(s):

• Revolution of the Senses