CFP: Renaissance Comparative Prose Conference (6/30/05; 11/3/05-11/4/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS

RENAISSANCE COMPARATIVE PROSE CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 3-4, 2005

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Papers (15-20 minutes reading time) are invited for the following five broadly-
construed panels:
* Old World Epic to New World Prose
* Far East Translations and Representations
* Women's Worlds
* The English Isle and the Continent
* From Medieval to Renaissance

Please send 300-word abstracts by June 30, 2005 to <duran0_at_cla.purdue.edu>.
Revised, full-length papers of 4,000-6,000 words based on papers delivered at
the Conference are due December 20, 2005 for consideration for publication in
a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.

Keynote Talk:
"From Idiosyncrasy to Blankness: The First Person Pronoun from Montaigne to
Descartes"
Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in the College, University of Chicago
<http://english.uchicago.edu/graduate/british/Faculty/strier.htm>
Editor, Modern Philology
<http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/MP/home.html>

For more information contact the conference organizing committee at
Angelica Duran
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 U.S.A.
<duran0_at_cla.purdue.edu>, (765) 496-3957

Sponsored by the Purdue Comparative Literature Program, English Department,
Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, Medieval Studies, Women's
Studies, and Classics Program.

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