Update: extended deadline
----The Department of French and Italian and the Program in Comparative Literature present "Literature On Trial", an interdisciplinary conference to be held October 6-7 at Emory University.
Keynote Speaker: Barbara Johnson, Harvard University.
Call for Papers: Since the expulsion of the poets from Plato's Republic, literature has often stood accused of being dangerous and useless. Even today, literary studies are called upon to defend themselves against charges of irrelevance, non-productivity, and elitism. While representations of trials in literature may reflect self-consciously upon the literary text, trials of literary works question the work's status as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry. What is at stake in putting literature on trial? What are the accusations to which literary studies have had to answer? To what extent do these accusations reflect upon the threat that literature may pose to the status of law? What is, then, the crime of the literary act?
Avenues of Exploration: This conference aims to address the association of literature and law by exploring three general areas: representations of trials in literature, trials of specific literary texts, and the trial of literary studies in general. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches and welcome papers from all disciplines and periods.
Specifics: Please submit a cover letter and two copies of a 300 word abstract for a twenty minute presentation by May 12, 2000. Participants will be notified by May 17. Send to: Literature on Trial Department of French and Italian Emory University Atlanta, GA. 30322
Inquiries should be directed to Christopher Howe at chowe@emory.edu
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