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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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