For a proposed special session at the 1997 MLA convention in Toronto:

Education and Imitation

Considerations of their mutual entanglement and interrelation in literature and philosophy.

• the (dis)function of models and examples
• fables, apologues, and the idea of didacticism
• transference, discipleship, and mimetic desire
• _imitatio_ and Humanist pedagogy
• aesthetic education
• Plato, Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Wilde
• Dangerous books
• Pygmalion narratives
• The concept of Bildung

Please send one-page proposals by 15 March 1997 to:

Matt Potolsky
Program in Comparative Literature
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697
mdpotols@uci.edu