CFP: [Romantic] Eighteenth International George Sand Conference

Call for Papers
Eighteenth International George Sand Conference
The University of California, at Santa Barbara
September 25-27, 2008

Writing, Performance and Theatricality in George Sand's Works

We invite proposals for papers (in French or English) on aspects of the
conference theme,including, but not limited to:

􀀹 The Writer at Work
􀀹 Conceptions and Assertions of Authorship
􀀹 Viewing and Staging Performances
􀀹 Theater in the Novel, Novels into Theater
􀀹 Oral Literature and Performance
􀀹 Creative and Improvisatory Practices
􀀹 Ritualization, Public Performance and Social Change
􀀹 Travel Narratives and the Staging of the Self
􀀹 Gender and Performance – Gender as Performance
􀀹 Public, Private and Everyday Performances
􀀹 Agency and Intentionality – Creativity and Constraint
􀀹 Speech-Act Criticism and George Sand Studies

Send proposals of 250-300 words, with a brief bibliography, preferably in
electronic form, by February 15, 2008, to: E-mail :
gss18_at_french-ital.ucsb.edu & rea_at_oxy.edu

Conference Organizers :
Prof. Catherine Nesci and Dominique Jullien
Department of French and Italian
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: (805) 893-3112; Fax: (805) 893-8826

Annabelle Rea, Professor of French Emerita
Spanish and French Literary Studies
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Tel. (818) 244-0487

Anne Marcoline, Ph.D. Candidate
Comparative Literature Program
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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