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The Philosophy of Communication
Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association and the Literary Communication Project of Abo Akademi University invite papers for a symposium on “Literature as Communication” to be held in Turku, Finland, from 2nd to 3rd September, 2011.
Notonly among literary theoreticians and critics, but also among students ofrhetoric, communication and media, stylisticians, discourse and dialogueanalysts, historians of the book, and social and cultural philosophers andhistorians, there is a growing tendency to see literary activity as one amongother forms of human communication. The Symposium will provide a forum in whichto assess both the broader and more detailed implications of this trend for ourunderstanding of literatureâ•˙s place within the lives of individuals andcommunities.
TheSymposium will assume a nominalistic and broad definition of literature.Literature, that is to say, will be viewed as consisting of all those textswhich, either now or in the past, have been referred to as literary, and as notnecessarily restricted to merely poems, plays and novels.
Paperson the following kinds of topic will be especially welcome:
Literary-communicationalinsights in current work within any of the disciplines mentioned above: newparadigms.
Literarycommunication as community-making.
Literarycommunication as philosophical reflection.
Literary-communicationalethics; for instance, the relevance of Keats's remark that “we hate poetrythat has a palpable design upon us”.
Thecommunicational workings of implied writers and implied readers
Communicationalsimilarities and contrasts between singly, collectively and anonymouslyauthored texts
Manuscriptculture, book culture, digital culture: the consequences for literary communication.
Thepoliteness (or otherwise)) of literary writers
Thecommunicational dimensions of literary styles and / or genres
Proposals(max. 300 words) for papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments to theConference Secretary, Gunilla Ritkaew (gunilla.ritkaew@abo.fi), before March 31st,2011. Requests for practical information about registration, travel andaccommodation should also be directed to the Conference Secretary.
ProfessorRoger Sell, ABO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY
DrJohan Siebers, ECREA