CFP: Remarking the Text (UK) (10/31; 7/19/01-7/20/01)

From: Willard McCarty (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 02:02:55 EDT

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    > Call for Papers
    >
    > REMARKING THE TEXT
    >
    > July 19th and 20th
    > University of St. Andrews, Scotland
    >
    > Following the success of the Marking the Text Conference at Trinity College
    > Cambridge in 1998, this conference aims to facilitate the ongoing
    > discussion of textual criticism, editing, and the materiality of the text.
    > The conference will explore the issue of textuality within the broadest
    > parameters, taking in relationships between writers, publishers, printers,
    > booksellers, and others and also attending to the text as a physical
    > object. The conference will not be period-specific in its focus and will
    > aim to encourage dialogue among specialists from a diverse range of
    > scholarly fields.
    >
    > Topics for papers might include (but need not be limited to):
    >
    > * margins
    > * lacunae
    > * typography
    > * textual distortion
    > * markets
    > * technology
    > * underground publishing
    > * handwriting
    > * palimpsest
    > * illustration
    > * facsimiles
    > * independent publishing
    > * counterfeiting
    >
    > Abstracts of about 500 words should be submitted by 31 October 2000 to the
    > reading committee at:
    >
    > Remarking the Text
    > School of English
    > University of St. Andrews
    > Fife, KY16 9AL
    > UK
    >
    > Enquiries to jg9@st-andrews.ac.uk phone: [+44] (0) 1334 462666

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    Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
    voice: +44 (0)20 7848 2784 fax: +44 (0)20 7848 5081
    <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>
    maui gratias agere

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