CFP: Culture and the Literary Prize (UK) (5/30/03; 10/4/03-10/5/03)

CULTURE AND THE LITERARY PRIZE

Oxford Brookes University, UK
4th  5th October 2003

Speakers include:
Pat Barker (Booker Prize Winner)
James English (University of Pennsylvania)
John Frow (University of Edinburgh)
Martyn Goff (Administrator of the Man Booker Prize)
Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
John Sutherland (University College London)

Conference Organisers: Daniel Lea (Department of English) and Claire
Squires (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies), Oxford
Brookes University.

Since its inception in 1969, the Booker Prize for Fiction has been at
the forefront of the promotion and reception of literary fiction in the
UK, the Commonwealth and beyond. This major international conference
will interrogate the place of the literary prize in contemporary culture
and coincides with the launch of the Man Booker Prize archive at Oxford
Brookes University. Papers will explore the production, marketing and
consumption of contemporary literature and will examine the dynamics of
the literary prize in relation to the codification of cultural value,
the formation of cosmopolitan reading communities and the construction
of national and trans-national identities. Whilst it is anticipated that
the Booker Prize will be a major focus of critical attention, the
conference will address prize culture in all its manifestations, both in
the UK and elsewhere.

Papers are invited on themes including: the impact of literary prizes on
the marketing, promotion and sales of contemporary writing; the
construction of canons and the formation of literary identities;
literary prizes and cultures of elitism; the place of the literary prize
in colonial/postcolonial debates; literary prizes and nationality;
literary prizes and the media; literary prizes and the formation of
reading communities; literary prize judges and judging; literary prizes
and the curriculum; literary prizes and literary development projects.

Please send an abstract (c.250 words) and a brief biographical note by
30 May 2003, or enquiries for further information, to Laura Price,
Conference Administrator, Publishing Department, Oxford Brookes
University, The Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Campus, Headington
Hill, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK, or by email to calp2003_at_brookes.ac.uk.

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Claire Squires
Senior Lecturer in Publishing
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
School of Arts & Humanities
The Richard Hamilton Building
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford OX3 0BP
Tel: 01865 484974
Fax: 01865 484952
Web: http://publishing.brookes.ac.uk
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