French Literature Conference XXXVII : Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax

Call for Papers

37^th Annual French Literature Conference

March 19-21, 2009

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)

Stealing the Fire
in French and Francophone Literature and Film:

Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax

The conference will explore issues of literary and cinematic under­hande­dness in the French tradition. Approaches could be based on keywords such as the following:

• originality misunderstood
• dead-end originality
• foiled formulas
• imitation (possibly long unnoticed)
• reproduction, replication
• simulation
• borrowing
• copy, theft
• modes of plagiarism
• works in opposition to a prior work
• take-off, parody
• repackaging
• anxiety of influence
• authenticity
• literary fakes or hoaxes
• conventions subverted

Papers should relate the conference topic to French-language literature or film of any period. Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted to the conference organizer by November 10, 2008. Sub­mis­sions should be held to a twenty-minute presen­tation time (typically, no more than 10 double-spaced pages). Participants are encouraged to expand their presentations to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages for publication. Proceedings will be published as volume XXXVII of French Literature Series (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi).

James T. Day

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Office phone: (803) 777-2857 or(803) 777-4881

Fax: (803) 777-0454

Email: james.t.day@sc.edu