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The Association for Computers and the Humanities is sponsoring two sessions at the 1997 convention of the Modern Language Association, in Toronto, Ontario, from 27 through 30 December.
We also offer a guide to all computer-related sessions at the convention.
Although the 1997 convention is now in the past, this information will remain available, as a record of what went on. Similar information for many other years is available via the main page on ACH MLA sessions.
Sunday, 28 December 1997, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., Toronto Room, Royal York Hotel
Presiding: John Lavagnino, Brown University
How computers and their uses illuminate, substantiate, motivate, challenge, energize, rejuvenate, undermine, or refute literary theory.
There has been a great deal of recent work in literary studies on the nature of electronic textuality, often drawing on various bodies of literary theory. But how appropriate to the new medium is theory that was developed when earlier writing technologies were dominant? Are there pitfalls in using theory this way? Does theory have things to learn from the world of electronic texts, or is there in truth nothing in the new world that poses a challenge for theory?
Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m., Room 203B, Toronto Convention Centre
Presiding: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago