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

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

Publié le par Alexandre Gefen (Source : James T. Day)

Call for Papers

37th 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