CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "Speaking of Beauty and Truth," is the theme of the
annual Conference on Christianity and Literature (Mideast Region) to be
held October 18-19, 2002, at the University of Dayton. Keynote speaker
will by Denis Donoghue, New York University, author of Adam's Curse:
Reflections on Religion and Literature, The Practice of Reading, and
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls. We invite papers or proposals on any
aspect of literature and its relationship to Christianity, including the
following: Christian Conceptions of Beauty and Truth; Expressions of the
Christian Imagination in Literature and Film; Responses to Christianity and
Literature from outside the Christian tradition (e.g., Islam, Judaism, and
other faiths); Interdisciplinary approaches; Creative writing in any
genre; and Memoir, Autobiography, and Spirituality; and Relationships among
aesthetics, morality, and theology.
Send papers or proposals to John McCombe (john.mccombe@notes.udayton.edu),
Department of English, 300 College Park, University of Dayton, Ohio
45469-1520; office: 937/229-3434 fax: 937/229-3563.
Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to participate.
Proposals are due by July 15, 2002.
Dr. Margaret M. Strain
Department of English
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio 45469-1520
937/229-3420
margaret.strain@notes.udayton.edu
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