Second Call for Papers: Incorporation in Literature
University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference
We invite proposals from postgraduate students for a
conference on
"Incorporation in Literature" to be held at the
University of Edinburgh
on 8 July 2006. This conference seeks to address the
idea of
incorporation from a variety of different
perspectives. Incorporation
is an important theme in many literary works in which
eating, drinking,
digesting, or even cannibalism figure prominently,
whether these
subjects are treated literally or metaphorically. In
a more abstract
sense, incorporation could also be understood as the
way in which one
work can be incorporated into another as an influence,
or as the ways
in which visual images and other graphic details are
incorporated into
literary texts. By inviting papers on specific texts
or authors in any
language from any period, this conference seeks to
provide a
comparative exploration of the ways in which
incorporation has been
used in literature.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to
both conference
organisers at the addresses below by 31 March. Papers
should be no
more than 20 minutes long and should be in delivered
in English.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the
following themes:
- consumerism
- consumption
- food
- eating/drinking/digesting
- cannibalism
- communion
- cultural cannibalism
- translation/transcreation
- influence
- rewriting
- incorporation as form of resistance
- text and image
- dialogue
Conference organisers:
Rachel Douglas ([log in to unmask])
Antonio Ochoa ([log in to unmask])
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures,
University of Edinburgh
Postal address: Rachel Douglas, French, Division of
European Languages
and Cultures, 59-60 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JU
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