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The Writer in Literature and Criticism (Terry Eagleton)

The Writer in Literature and Criticism (Terry Eagleton)

Publié le par Thomas Parisot

University of East Anglia
School of English and American Studies

New Visions: The Writer in Literature and Criticism
9 February 2002

Plenary Speaker: Professor Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester)

Literary and critical discourses employ metaphors to describe the role of the writer and the purpose of his/her work anew. To what extent, however, do literary writers share their critics' vision of their writing? This conference would like to examine the metaphors these writers use in literature within the wider context of the critical discourses surrounding them. It also aims to explore the degree of their interaction with those critical discourses in order to determine the nature of their 'newness'.

Contributors are encouraged to rethink, in this light, the relation between literary and critical metaphors in terms of influence and circularity. Are the metaphors used in literature influenced by the ones the critics employ? In turn, are the metaphors employed in criticism influenced by those the writers use? Are these metaphors then primarily contagious? If so, what does their contaminating power imply about the discourses that employ them?

We invite a wide variety of conceptual and/or historical approaches. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Economy: the writer being symptomatic of a (post)capitalist society
- Language: the writer being defined by and in relation to the different modes and media of communication
- Power-relations: the writer seeing him/herself in contrast to and in association with opposing socio-cultural forces
- Science: the writer understanding him/herself in terms of and against his/her scientific and empirical quest for knowledge
- Space/time: the writer perceiving him/herself in and through his/her relation to space and/or time
- Theology: the writer being the agent of an apocalyptic and/or prophetic vision

Please send hard-copy abstracts of 300 words by August 31st 2001 to:

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
"New Visions: The Writer in Literature and Criticism" Conference
School of English and American Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK

Please address all e-mail enquiries to:

Polina Hadjiyianni (Hadjpol@aol.com)
or Helen Smith (Helen.Smith@uea.ac.uk)
or Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (K.Hadjiafxendi@uea.ac.uk)

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