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Conference 'From Song to Book: Performance and Entextualisation in
Ancient Greek Literature and Beyond'
Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July, 2016.
UCL, London, England
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/2016-SongtoBook
Call for papers deadline: 1 February 2016.
The Department of Greek and Latin at UCL and the UCL Institute of
Advanced Studies will host a comparative conference on entextualisation.
Since Europeans began to explore the world outside Eurasia, the ancient
Greek experience of literacy was a paradigm in the West's understanding
of what literacy is. In recent decades, however, scholars have
increasingly challenged the older notion of a linear development from
oral to written culture. Entextualisation is increasingly understood not
as a single cultural process, but rather a variety of different ones
with specific social aims and consequences; and performance studies has
introduced new ways of understanding how different texts and genres
construct a speaking voice. We aim to create bridges between Classicists
and colleagues working in a variety of other fields, from mediaeval and
Renaissance studies, to anthropology, philosophy and ethnomusicology, to
see how our methods can inform each others' approaches. Keynote speakers
will include Richard Janko and Niall Slater. Papers will be forty
minutes, followed by discussion. Suggestions for topics include, but are
not limited to:
. How might a genre which starts out as performative change and
develop as it becomes increasingly encoded in a textual form?
. How does entextualisation impact on musical performance
traditions and genres?
. When and why are genres entextualised?
. How does the move from performance to entextualisation alter
the way in which a genre or a poet constructs the authorial voice?
. How does the regime of performance and textuality differ
between poetry and prose? Does the shifting relationship between poetry
and prose over time affect the conception of textual voice? Can we find
analogies for the development of prose in other cultures?
. How does performance culture impact on forms of
entextualisation and textual transmission? What is a text? What are its
qualities? How stable is it?
Inquiries should be directed, and paper ideas submitted, to the
following e-mail address: [log in to unmask]
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Professor J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Professor of Music History and Theory
Director of Research
Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
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