italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Prof. Harrow,
I contacted you last Wednesday concerning your conference on the art of the
text
but I have just realized that many of the people I contacted that day did not
receive my messages. Please accept my apologies for re-sending my proposal for
a paper but I did not want to miss the deadline. I have also discovered that
sometimes I do not receive messages (even if sent within my university) so
people from IT are currently investigating the problem. This is just to say,
please forgive what may seem a rather odd behaviour. Unfortunately, when IT
problems are concerned I tend to develop some kind of paranoia.
Yours sincerely,
Laura Rorato
Quoting SR Harrow <[log in to unmask]>:
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
>
> Whilst the primary constituency for this conference will be
> French/Francophone studies and Visual Culture, the appeal to researchers in
> 'related literatures' (and comparative studies)is very real, hence this
> posting on the Italian Studies discussion board.
>
> Susan Harrow
>
>
>
>
>
> Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures
> University of Bristol
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>
> Sublimely Visual: The Art of the Text
>
> 5-7 September 2008
>
>
> In The Mottled Screen (1997) Mieke Bal complemented her rhetorical reading
> of painting (Reading 'Rembrandt', 1991) with a visual reading of verbal
> matter (Proust's A la recherche). Bal's adventurous study of the visual
> properties and processes of the literary text urges us to move beyond the
> traditional ut pictura poesis approach in order to develop a properly
> generative reading of the visuality of writing.
>
> The aim of this conference is to take forward new approaches in visual
> reading. Among the questions to be addressed are: how does writing receive
> or resist the textures and figures of visual media? How do writers write
> colour and light? How are visual analogies translated, transfigured or
> anticipated by the writer and by readers? Which new directions in critical
> thought (in literature studies, art history, film studies, and theory) can
> enhance our understanding of the interrelations between visual art and
> writing? How does the art essay resist its aesthetic object, and become a
> subject in and for itself? How do literary texts enrich - or obstruct -
> our reading of art, and vice versa?
>
> In broader terms, this conference will reflect on reciprocities, actual and
> speculative, between visual culture and French, Francophone and related
> literatures of the broad modern period. Our interpretation of 'visual
> culture' is capacious, and will include art and art theory, film,
> sculpture, photography, photojournalism, installation and performance art,
> documentary, the art book, and the specific engagement of writers with art
> and aesthetics.
>
> Keywords: visual language, ekphrasis, colour, plasticity, framing,
> perspective, light and line, landscape, portrait, typography, concrete
> poetry, the translation of perception, figuration, viewing position,
> visualising object and surface, painterly description, scale, detail, mise
> en abyme, eye and I, gendered viewing, brouillage, abstraction, sequence
> and simultaneity, new approaches to text/image studies
>
>
> Proposals (circa 300 words; deadline 15 February 2008) should be sent,
> preferably by e-mail attachment, to
>
> Professor Susan Harrow
> Department of French
> University of Bristol
> 19 Woodland Road
> Bristol BS8 1TE
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> The venue for the conference is the Burwalls Conference Centre in Leigh
> Woods, a stunning setting overlooking the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
> Registration details will be circulated in Spring 2008.
>
>
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