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Reimagining Beauty and the Beast

A BIRTHA Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Bristol

7^th September 2016

Keynote speakers

Dr. Amy Davis, University of Hull

Prof. James Williams, Royal Holloway University of London

Please register at http://shop.bris.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=143 by 1st September 2016

“Since myths can be made to mean an indefinite number of things, it is more fruitful to study what in fact myths have been made to mean.” Northrop Frye (1957)

One of the virtues of myth is its inexhaustible applicability. This one-day interdisciplinary conference brings together papers on a great variety of version(s) and rendering(s) of beauty and the beast – whether in cinema, literature or other media – and also on the pairing of “beauty” with “beast” in the widest possible sense; rediscovering the tale in unexpected places.

Further information, including the conference programme and speakers' abstract, can be found on the web page of the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Arts (BIRTHA): http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/events/reimagining-beauty-and-the-beast/