CFP: Love and Death (11/1/06; ACLA, 4/19/07-4/22/07)

Call for seminar papers for
 
American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference 2007
"Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007
 
Deadline: 1 November 2006
 
Seminar Title: Love and Death: Experiences in, Among, and Beyond Texts
 

Love and death are understandably powerful forces shaping human
experience. Moreover, their power permeates texts. Within texts, love
and death have profound effects on textual elements such as characters,
plot development, narrative structure, and point of view. Beyond a given
text, love and death also act as potent images, metaphors, and allegories
of the relationships between texts and their contexts-for example,
historical, religious, and/or political-as well as an author's relation to
his/her own text. Furthermore, as metaphor, love and death enact the
relations between and among texts, including, but not limiteelation to
his/her own text. Furthermore, as metaphor, love and death enact the
relations between and among texts, including, but not limited to,
genealogical, adversarial, productive, and/or reproductive interactions.
Interestingly, these metatextual and intertextual relationships often
reveal texts' collaborative and/or subversive tendencies.

We welcome papers that address either love, death, or both as they appear
in, around, and/or across texts. We are particularly interested in papers
that examine texts from a wide range of historical periods and national
traditions.

 
Please submit abstracts online at
http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/forms/form2.html by 1 November 2006 and
indicate "Love and Death: Experiences in, Among, and Beyond Texts" as the
seminar topic. If you wish, you may also send a copy of the abstract to
the co-organizers of the seminar: Corinne Scheiner
(cscheiner_at_coloradocollege.edu) and Robert Kendrick
(robert.kendrick_at_coloradocollege.edu).
 
For further information on the conference, please see
http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/.
 
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Corinne Scheiner
Maytag Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
The Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719/389-6238 tel
719/389-6179 fax
cscheiner_at_coloradocollege.edu

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