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BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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READING AND WRITING MYTH
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER: 16-19 JULY 1998
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
The making and remaking of stories is the fabric of our consciousness. The
scope of the conference will be to examine how old myths are read and
rewritten, how new ones come into being, from antiquity to the present day.
As well as the construction, use and re-use of myth in literature, the
conference is open to discussion of cultural mythologies generally,
particularly as reflected, challenged, subverted and created in and through
literature.
1998 marks the bicentenary of the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge+s
Lyrical Ballads and Lancaster University is set on the edge of the English
Lake District. Contributions dealing with aspects of romanticism and the
romantic tradition will be particularly welcome, but papers may deal with
any period or culture, focus on a single work, place or period, or establish
a broader comparative perspective.
KEY WORDS
Apocalypses + Bestiaries + Codes Ciphers Conspiracies+ Desire
Epiphanies + Eros and Thanatos + Fins de Siecle + First and Last Words
Ghosts Ghouls Goblins + Hearts of Darkness + Innocence and Experience
Imagined Worlds + Jouissance + Kaos + Limits + Metamorphosis/Apotheosis
Millennia + Nightmares + Origins + Palimpsests -- Quests
Ritual and Romance + Revolutions + Romantic agonies + Sailing to Byzantium
Telling tales/tellers of tales + Theophanies + Urban myths/myths of urbanity
Visions and Prophecies + Writing children/writing for children + Xanadu
Xenia to Xenophobes + Ygdrasil
A SELECTION OF CONFERENCE PAPERS
WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE BCLA JOURNAL
NEW COMPARISON
Requests for further information and offers of papers (provisional title
accompanied by 100-200 word abstract) to the conference organiser, Maurice
Slawinski, Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster
University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YN, tel. 01524 593001, fax. 01524
843934, Email [log in to unmask]
-LEGENDA-
CONFERENCE ENROLMENT
1. Conference Charges.
Resident:
(inclusive of 3 nights+ accommodation, and all meals): ? 160.00
Non resident:
(conference fee, morning coffee/afternoon tea only): ? 35.00
A reduction of ? 10.00 will be made for any resident or non-resident
registration made by BCLA members (see overleaf for details), or by
post-graduate students.
Accommodation is in single rooms with shared toilet/bathrooms. Rooms with
ensuite toilet/shower are available, for an additional charge of ? 25.00.
It is regretted that for administrative reasons it is not possible to accept
residential bookings for less than the full duration of the Conference.
Anyone wishing to attend the conference for a shorter period who requires
overnight accommodation, will be able to do so as a non-resident delegate,
and arrange the necessary accommodation privately on or in the immediate
vicinity of the Campus (where snackbars and self-service restaurant will be
open throughout the Conference period). A list of addresses/phone numbers
for a range of accommodation providers (from 4-star hotel to farmhouse
bed-and-breakfast) will be provided on request.
1. Conditions of Booking.
All bookings must be accompanied by a ? 50.00 deposit, the balance to be
paid in full not later than 30 April 1998. A surcharge of 10% will be made
in the case of bookings made after this date, or for late payment of the
outstanding balance.
The deposit is refundable in full if a cancellation is made by 30 April
1998. After this date a ? 15.00 cancellation fee will be deducted. No
cancellation is possible in the final fortnight, excepting in the case of
serious illness, bereavement or similar.
All payment must be made in stirling (cheque, travellers+ cheque,
Eurocheque, international money orders). Because of the very high cost of
conversion and currency fluctuations payment in other currencies cannot be
accepted.
LEGENDA: BOOKING FORM
I wish to register for the conference, and agree to abide by the conditions
of booking set out overleaf.
Please tick the option required (prices in brackets include deduction for
BCLA members/postgraduate students):
RESIDENT registration (standard accommodation) ? 160.00 (? 150.00)
RESIDENT registration (with private toilet/shower) ? 185.00 (? 175.00)
NON-RESIDENT registration ? 35.00 (? 25.00)
BCLA membership ? 20.00*
I enclose a cheque/money order for ? _____
* ? 12.00 for postgraduate students and the unwaged.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
SIGNED:
DATE:
Cheques should be made out to BCLA -- Legenda, and sent to the organizer
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BCLA MEMBERSHIP
Membership of the BCLA is open to academic members of universities and other
institutions of higher learning, as well as to graduate students and to
other persons with appropriate scholarly interests, both in Britain and
abroad. The current subscription rate is ? 20 for those in employment, and ?
12 for postgraduates and the unwaged.
BCLA membership is for one year from the date of receipt of the membership
fee. It includes membership of the International Comparative Literature
Association (ICLA), a subscription to New Comparison (BCLA; 2 issues) and a
discount on the yearbook Comparative Criticism (CUP), as well as some other
publications of interest to comparatists.
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Dr Tom Cheesman (Lecturer in German / Dozent fuer Germanistik)
Department of German
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea SA2 8PP
Wales
GB
tel.: 00 44 1792 295170 - fax 295710
Email: <[log in to unmask]>
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/homepage.htm
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