8th Annual McGill University Graduate Student Symposium on Language and
Literature
"Representing the Border"
March 23 & 24, 2002
Montreal, Quebec
"The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first
lines, and the last full-stop, beyond its internal configuration and its
autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other
books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network."
---Michel Foucault, "Language, Counter-Memory, Practice"
Postmodern Intertextualities: Works without Borders
Papers are being solicited for a panel on intertextuality in recent films
and novels, works whose borders are challenged, violated, or
deconstructed through the inclusion of various other narratives. I am
interested in papers that investigate the ways in which this insertion or
overlapping contributes to the meaning(s) of a specific text, or those
that attempt to address any of the following concerns:
- How does the recognition of intertextual references (references that
need not be overt) influence our reading(s) of a text?
- What constitutes an intertext (the presence of representative figures,
pop culture artifacts, unconventional narratives, etc.)?
- What is the critical function of intertextuality, particularly in
instances when a text is critical of another that it contains?
- What does the act of placing one narrative within another accomplish
and what can it tell us about the borders of a work of art?
- What is the relationship between intertextuality and
interdisciplinarity?
- What is the place of intertextuality in postmodern theory and practice?
Any paper examining the co-presence of one or more other narratives
within the borders of a recent novel or film is welcome, as are more
general analyses of the theoretical implications of postmodern
intertextuality. Given the broadness of this topic and the provocative
material that can be examined, I look forward to receiving a variety of
lively and insightful contributions. Please forward brief proposals (1 or
2 pages) by January 31st to Tim Walters at sotakAR@aol.com.
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