Literature Travels: Literature and Cross-Cultural Exchange (University of
Wolverhampton, Telford Campus: 12-14 September 2005).
International bilingual conference (English/French), sponsored by the British
Comparative Literature Association and the History & Governance Research
Institute, University of Wolverhampton.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Michael Cronin, Centre for Translation,
Communication and Cultures (Dublin City University); Dr Sophie Linon-Chipon,
Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages (Paris IV - Sorbonne).
Literature travels as a condition of its being, defining itself as 'literature'
by testing and transgressing the boundaries of communities. Yet literature also
travels in material forms, such as travel literature, translation, holiday
fiction, or contraband, and literature travels with travellers, readers,
reviewers, and expatriates - human agents of cultural transmission and exchange
who help create new reading communities that spill over national boundaries.
This conference will examine such cross-cultural agents and products of
transmission and exchange in European Literature and print culture. Among other
things, it will explore the contact zones that literature travels in and to.
The organisers invite proposals for papers on three broad aspects of the
relationship between literature and travel: travel writing; travel as a theme
and metaphor in literature; and how literature travels (e.g. reception,
diffusion, intermediaries).
Deadline: 3 May 2005.
Please send 300-word abstracts to either of the conference organisers, Dr
Benjamin Colbert or Dr Glyn Hambrook, at [log in to unmask]; on-line
submission forms are also available on our website:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/literature-travels
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