May 26-29, Boston MA.
\nPanel: “Dramatizing Ideas: Hybrids, Heterodoxies, and Humanisms in Greenwich Village.”
\nChair: Michael Winetsky.<\/p>\n
The Glaspell Society is pleased to present its panel as part of the Five Dramatists Societies\u2019 series of associated panels at ALA 2011 on \u201cDramatizing Ideas.\u201d Selecting for traits, cross breeding, grafting, Claire Archer, the horticultural mad scientist at the center of Glaspell\u2019s 1921 drama The Verge<\/em>, uses all of these techniques to create a new self-reproducing species of plant, calling her efforts \u201cmad new comings together.\u201d\u00a0 In imagining Claire\u2019s work in this play, Glaspell hit upon a metaphor for the intellectual life of Greenwich Village, where new ideas in politics, philosophy, science, spirituality, and art were bred and crossbred. Glaspell\u2019s horticultural metaphors for ideas have been linked by recent scholars to the educational organicism of John Dewey, to the Pragmatism of William James, to the Humanism of F. C. S. Schiller, to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, to the ontology of Henri Bergson, as well as to the evolutionary science of Lamarck, Darwin, and Haeckel. Such metaphors must be seen as the culmination of Glaspell\u2019s own long-standing interest in the fusion of different ways of knowing. \u201cWhen art weds science,\u201d Glaspell wrote in her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered<\/em>, \u201cthe resulting library is difficult to manage.\u201d Extending these metaphors into a more general inquiry, the Susan Glaspell Society invites papers that address Greenwich Village as a site for the transformation of ideas.<\/p>\n \u00a0Papers: “Loving Outside the Law: Nature as Mother in Susan Glaspell and Mary Hallock Foote,” Catherine Q. Forsa, Seton Hall University;<\/p>\n “Jung’s Impact on the First Greenwich Village Avant-Garde,” Dr. Jay Sherry, independent scholar;<\/p>\n “‘What is that?’: Epistemological Crises in Glaspell’s Trifles<\/em> and The Morning is Near Us<\/em>,” Taryn Norman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 26-29, Boston MA. Panel: “Dramatizing Ideas: Hybrids, Heterodoxies, and Humanisms in Greenwich Village.” Chair: Michael Winetsky. The Glaspell Society is pleased to present its panel as part of the Five Dramatists Societies\u2019 series of associated panels at ALA 2011 on \u201cDramatizing Ideas.\u201d Selecting for traits, cross breeding, grafting, Claire Archer, the horticultural mad scientist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-conferences"],"yoast_head":"\n