Call for Papers (Bilingual)
British Comparative Literature Association
Workshop Conference
12-14 September 2005
University of Wolverhampton (Telford Campus)
* Call for Papers
* Proposals for Special Sessions
* Proposals for Workshops
* Submission of Proposals
Call for papers, special session proposals and workshop proposals
(a) Call for Papers (in English or FRENCH)
In recent times travel writing has acquired prominence as an object of study by scholars across the broad academic and international community of literary and cultural studies. This international bilingual conference focuses on the relationships between literature and travel, not only in terms of travel writing but also considering literature that participates in cross-cultural exchange in the widest sense. It will cover three broad aspects of this relationship:
* travel writing
* travel as a theme and metaphor in literature
* how literature travels (e.g. reception, diffusion, intermediaries).
Although the following list is not intended to be prescriptive, we welcome papers on such topics as:
* Travel fiction and fictional travels
* Literary tourism and tours by literary travellers
* Literature for or accompanying those in transit (e.g. translation, guidebooks, periodicals, railway novels, holiday reading, gifts to travellers of national/local literature)
* Sites of cross-cultural literary exchange (e.g. salons, communities of exiles and ex-patriates, coteries, foreign-language reading rooms and librairies)
* Intermediaries as literary travel agents, text traffickers, custom officers and immigration officials
* Literary text as honoured guest, asylum seeker or illegal immigrant
* Cross-border and cosmopolitan literary movements and identities
* Gender and national/international identity in literature and travel writing
* Reception and reviewing of translation or foreign-language publications (e.g. reviews of reviews)
* Cosmopolitan cities in literature and travel writing (e.g. Paris, London, Rome, Vienna)
* Literature and migration
* Travel and journey as literary image/metaphor/symbol
* Translation as journey
* Translation as change of citizenship.
Proposals for 20-minute Papers should be submitted by 11 March 2005 in the form of an abstract not exceeding 300 words.
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(b) Proposals for Special Sessions (in English or in FRENCH)
We also welcome proposals for special sessions. Convenors of special sessions are requested to submit a title and abstracts of three 20-minute papers by 11 March 2005.
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(c) Proposals for Workshops (in English or FRENCH)
We also hope to devote at least one parallel session to a series of discussion workshops on an aspect of the conference theme.
Each workshop will be run by a leader or two co-leaders who will give a short introductory presentation and then lead an intensive group discussion of their chosen texts. These texts might be from any genre, discipline or language community, though we think the success of the workshop will depend on choosing works or excerpts that are also sufficiently brief (Texts will be made electronically available to participants).
If you would like to propose and lead a workshop, please submit by 11 March 2005 a short description of what you would like to accomplish and a preliminary list of discussion materials.
After the selection of leaders, topics will be announced on the conference website and delegates will be asked to sign up for a session of their choice.
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Submission of Proposals
Online:
http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level3.asp?UserType=11&Level3=177
To complete an online form for a 20-minute Paper proposal, go here >>.
To complete an online form for a Special Session proposal, go here >>.
To complete an online form for a Workshop proposal, go here >>.