CFP: Image and Text in the 20th and 21st C. (UK) (3/1/05; 9/23/05-9/24/05)

Call for Papers

The Infinite Dialogue : Redefining the Word/Image Analogy in the 20th- 21st
Centuries.
23-24 September 2005
Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House (Malet Street), London
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2005

This conference is organized jointly by SEAC (Société d'Etudes Anglaises
Contemporaines) and SAIT (Société des Amis d'Intertexte), based in France, and
aims to reexamine the "ut pictura poesis" theory. The inter-relationship of word
and image in some contemporary works of art emphasizes some of the fundamental
issues in the process of representation itself, while at the same time
pinpointing certain cultural, or ideological issues (the politics of race,
gender, class, hegemony). Lessing's notion of the temporal/spatial disjunction
will be rethought, and particular attention will be paid to the way the
iconotext seems to disrupt common views of the ontological status of the work of
art (such as the distinction between the allographic and the autographic). The
conference will address the question of transaction, or trans-lation, between
painting and contemporary literature, between language and the image at large,
as the analyses will include all types of images mediated by language
(photographs, tapestries, mirrors, maps, optical instruments, etc.).
The works studied should be 20th - 21st century British fiction, essays, poetry,
etc., as a selection of papers will be published in the French journal Etudes
Britanniques Contemporaires.
Proposals with abstracts and curriculum vitae in English should be sent by
March, 1st, 2005 to Liliane Louvel <Liliane.Louvel_at_mshs.univ-poitiers.fr> and
Delphine Cingal <dcingal_at_club-internet.fr>. (All papers to be delivered in
English.)

--
Delphine CINGAL
Maître de Conférences Panthéon-Assas-Paris 2
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In omnibus requiem quaesivi
Et non inveni
Nisi seorsim sedans
In angulo cum libello.
Thomas a Kempis, De Imitatione Christi
[Everywhere I have sought rest and found it not except sitting apart in a nook
with a little book.]
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