THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING
PROPOSALS FOR THE SYMPOSIUM HAS NOW PASSED.
Scholars interested in the topic
are invited to submit a proposal for the conference that the Literary
Communication Project is arranging together with the International
Association of Dialogue Analysis in April, 2012.
More information is
available here.
The Philosophy of
Communication Section of
the European Communication Research and Education Association
and
the Literary Communication Project of Åbo Akademi
University
invite papers for
a symposium on
LITERATURE AS
COMMUNICATION
to be held in Turku, Finland
from 2nd
to 3rd September, 2011
Not only among
literary theoreticians and critics, but also among
students of rhetoric, communication and media, stylisticians, discourse
and
dialogue analysts, historians of the book, and social and cultural
philosophers
and historians, there is a growing tendency to see literary activity as
one
among other forms of human communication. The symposium will provide a
forum in
which to assess both the broader and more detailed implications of this
trend
for our understanding of literature’s place within the lives
of individuals and
communities.
The symposium
will
assume a nominalistic and broad definition of literature. Literature,
that is
to say, will be viewed as consisting of all those texts which, either
now or in
the past, have been referred to as literary, and as not necessarily
restricted
to merely poems, plays and novels.
Papers on the
following kinds of topic will be especially welcome:
- Literary-communicational
insights in current work within
any of the disciplines mentioned above: new paradigms.
- Literary
communication as community-making.
- Literary
communication as philosophical reflection.
- Literary-communicational
ethics; for instance, the relevance
of Keats’s remark that “we hate poetry that has a
palpable design upon us”.
- The
communicational workings of implied writers and
implied readers
- Communicational
similarities and contrasts between
singly, collectively and anonymously authored texts
- Manuscript
culture, book culture, digital culture: the
consequences for literary communication.
- The politeness
(or otherwise) of literary writers
- The
communicational dimensions of literary styles and
/ or genres
Proposals (max. 300 words) for
papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments to the Organizing
Committee, Adam Borch (english@abo.fi), before March 31st,
2011. Requests
for practical information about registration,
travel and accommodation should also be directed to the Organizing
Committee.
Roger D. Sell
H.W.
Donner Research Professor of Literary Communication
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