24th - 26th July 2003
University of York, England
TEXTS, MA(R)KERS, MARKETS
Plenary Speakers: Rita Copeland, James Raven, Harold Love
Following on from two highly successful conferences at Trinity College,
Cambridge (1998), and the University of St. Andrews (2001), this conference
aims to provoke and facilitate the ongoing discussion of the interaction of
textual and literary meaning. The conference will explore issues
surrounding the material text, attending to its physicality, and to the
relationships between writers, readers, publishers, printers and other
textual ma(r)kers.
The conference will be interdisciplinary and cross-period, encouraging
dialogue and debate among specialists from a wide range of scholarly
disciplines. The organisers particularly wish to encourage papers that
challenge or extend the field. It is expected that the conference will lead
to the production of a published volume.
Topics for papers might include (but need not be limited to):
- reader response - from marginalia to reading communities
- hermeneutics - censorship, editing, marketing
- transformations and distortions - from oral text to print or script,
from image to text, the theory and practice of translation
- fakes and frauds - counterfeiting and forgery
- the materiality of the book - from production to use and from
manuscripts to hypertexts
- paratexts - from prefaces to indices, and footnotes to running titles
- markets - history, influence, and their impact on the material text
Abstracts of around 500 words for 20 minute papers should be submitted by
15th December 2002 along with brief biographical identification to Helen
Smith and Matthew Day at:
Texts, Ma(r)kers, Markets
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD, ENGLAND
For more details please e-mail mrpd100@york.ac.uk or hs129@york.ac.uk
Please note that all speakers will be required to pay a registration fee
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