International conference
“Re-Writing Literature”
14th – 16th April 2014, in Łódź
The Department of Literary Theory in Institute of Contemporary Culture of Lodz University has the pleasure to invite you to the international conference “Re-Writing Literature”. The Conference is scheduled for 14th – 16th April 2014, in Łódź.
The main issue of our conference is a special embodiment of literary re-cycling – creative parasitism on others’ texts (not only literary ones): re-narrations, re-plots, re-convecionalizations, amplifications, re-interpretations -- forms of apocrypha, pastiche, parody. We are particularly focused on displaying cultural and/or existential meaning of intentional practices of that kind. We are specially interested in such cases in which meaning is articulated through the agency of relations among texts and individual experience and cultural reality within which those texts are written and read.
We expects papers to take up topics concerning:
- a source, history and evolution of contemporary shape of forms and poetics of these kinds of literary practices
- reasons for their incessant productivity
- type and cultural status of the texts which have been exposed to such procedures most frequently
- cultural circulations and the sphere of their replacements (e.g. the case of co called fan-ficion (fanfics), proposals of a new terminology – cover story, remix, prequel, sequel )
We are also interested in case studies of re-writing in Polish and foreign literature.
Your applications for the conference should be sent until 15th of January 2014 (with abstracts contained max. 500 words). Our email: literaturaprzepisana@gmail.com .
All information on the conference agenda, fees, terms, conditions of participation and information on planned publication you will find the file "Organizational information".
The lectures will be given in Polish and English.
Organizers
Agnieszka Izdebska
Danuta Szajnert
Agnieszka Przybyszewska
Organizational information
The conference requirements:
Sending abstracts: 15th January 2014
Information on acceptance of applications: until 1st February 2014
The deadline of payment: 1st March 2014
Announcement of the conference agenda: until 14th March 2014
The date of the conference: 14th – 16th April 2014
The deadline of sending articles for publishing: 15th July 2014
The conference fee is 300 PLN (250 for students and PhD students) and covers the costs of the conference materials. During the conference we offer two meals, the coffee breaks and gala dinner. We expect participants to cover the costs of accommodation and travel. Payments must be made on the account of the Lodz University. All the data needed to transfer will be provided with information on the acceptance of the papers.
The lectures will be given in Polish and English.
Together with abstracts, please send us data on your scientific degree and affiliation. Our email: literaturaprzepisana@gmail.com .
After the acceptance of the papers we ask you to fill in the application form stating your requirements for equipment, types of food (vegetarian or not), data for invoice etc….
We can offer you help to search for accommodation.
The Conference agenda will be announced on our website, where you will be able to find all the current information, abstracts etc…
We are planning two types of after conference publications (we reserve the right to choose texts): a reviewed monograph (in both paper and on-line forms) and a publication of selected articles on the pages of “The Problems of Literary Genres”.