HAMLET AND POETRY
An international conference in Cardiff
13-14 September 2011
organised by
Dr Márta Minier (University of Glamorgan) and Dr Ruth J. Owen
(Cardiff University)
Venue: ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK
Shakespeare’s HAMLET and its innumerable rewrites and
intertextual traces have been shaping literary and cultural production for
centuries. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together scholars of
literature from Modern Languages, English, Drama, Translation Studies
and Creative
Writing to reflect on the rewrites and traces in poetry. It will focus on the
interrelationships between HAMLET and poetry in terms of influence, allusion,
intertextuality and transposition. Whilst HAMLET has made possible some great
modern poems, the ramifications of Shakespeare’s play for poetry
and poetics have
been considerably less charted than the narrative and dramatic rewrites. This
conference seeks to redress the balance by examining how, and to what ends,
poetry has recourse to HAMLET, its fragments and its translations.
We invite twenty-minute papers in English on HAMLET-related
poems in any language. We welcome papers on a particular poem, poetic genre,
style, trend, national poetry, or authorial oeuvre; and on the role of
translation. Selected papers will be published in a guest-edited issue of the
peer-reviewed journal “New Readings” before the end of 2013.
Confirmed keynote speaker:
Prof Neil Corcoran (University of Liverpool), author of “Shakespeare
and the Modern Poet”
Keynote entitled:
A Politics of Translation: Robert Lowell/Boris Pasternak;
Czeslaw Milosz/Zbigniew Herbert; William Shakespeare/Ciaran Carson
Other speakers include:
Maria Elisa Montironi - The “introspective sponger”:
Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Brecht’s poetry
Elise Brault-Dreux - How not to be, in a selection of D.H.
Lawrence’s poems
Katarzyna Burzyńska - Polish Hamlet: An analysis of Zbigniew
Herbert’s poem “The Elegy of Fortinbras”
Hatice Bay - “The Poems of Dr Zhivago” as Hamletian Epic
Poems
Arianna Marmo - Renée Vivien’s “perverse Ophélie”
Rocío G. Sumillera - The influence of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
on twentieth-century Spanish poetry
Cristina Paravano - An Italian Hamlet: The Case of Alda
Merini
There are still some places for speakers at this conference.
Please email your proposed title and 250-word abstract as an
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“Hamlet and Poetry”. Extended deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2011
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