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Detailed Description Examples

This page contains links to examples of successful description sections from a variety of special-session proposals (these examples are also applicable to nonguaranteed sessions submitted on behalf of divisions, discussion groups, allied and affiliate organizations, MLA committees, and the American Literature section). Click on the link below to view the example. These excerpts appear as they were received by the MLA and have not been edited to conform to MLA style.

Ideas of Form in Twentieth-Century Poetry: What We Talk about When We Talk about Form
(Example of a proposal organized by a graduate student)

Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: New Approaches to African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919
(Example of a proposal with three graduate student panelists)

Reconsidering Robert Creeley
(Example of a proposal that is also a tribute)

Saintly Women and Priestly Poets: The Fifteenth-Century English Poetry of Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, and John Audelay
(Example of a proposal with a good rationale and history)

Revision as Writing, Writing as Revision
(Example of a roundtable proposal)

Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance at Twenty Five
(Example of a proposal focussing on one work)


 
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