CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop: LITERARY COMMUNITIES
Date: MAY 27-28, 2004
Submission deadline: February 2, 2004
Location: University College London, LONDON, ENGLAND
Host: AHRB Centre for Asian & African Literatures (UCL/SOAS)
This is the third workshop of the research project "The Social Context of
Literary Production and Consumption", led by Prof Michel Hockx (Chinese,
SOAS) and Dr George Paizis (French, UCL) under the aegis of the AHRB Centre
for Asian and African Literatures.
The first two workshops, devoted respectively to literary education and to
reading and literary criticism, examined specific aspects of literary
communities. The aim of this third workshop is to discuss literary
communities as a whole, i.e. to ask questions about how literature is
socially embedded in different countries, different cultures and/or
different historical periods.
The workshop organisers actively encourage specialists in all literatures
(i.e. not just Asian and African literatures) to submit proposals, in order
to achieve the widest possible comparative perspectives.
We invite proposals for 25-minute papers dealing with one or more of the
following questions:
* How can literary communities be described? What theories, methods or
models are available to study literary communities?
* What are the hierarchies of publishers, publications and/or editions
within the literary community?
* What is the role of writers' collectives (societies, associations, clubs,
salons) within the literary community?
* What is the role of reading groups within the literary community?
* What is the role of the academy within the literary community?
* What other individuals and institutions are involved in the literary
community, and how do they interact?
* What are the relations of the literary communities with the state and
conversely how does the state try to influence or constrain the activities
of the literary community?
The workshop will be held in London. There are no fees, and accommodation
is provided for speakers. Unfortunately, we normally are not able to offer
any assistance with travel funding.
Paper proposals should be no longer than one page (typed A4) and should be
sent by e-mail to Dr Douglas McCabe, [log in to unmask], at the Centre by 2
February 2004.
Further information about the Centre and the research projects it currently
supports can be found at http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures. To be added to
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