NarrativEncounters: New Perspectives on Narration, February 15th-16th 2008
19 Oct 2007
Call for Papers
NarrativEncounters: New Perspectives on Narration
February 15th-16th 2008
University College Cork
Plenary Speakers: Dr. Paul Cobley (London Metropolitan University), Dr. Ruth Page (Birmingham City University)
The first international NarrativEncounters conference, entitled New Perspectives on Narration, will focus on new interpretations and readings, definitions and valuations, of narrative’s significance to all branches of critical thought, art and experience. The organisers invite papers from a wide range of disciplines and interests, possible topics include, but are not limited to, narrative’s centrality to fiction, film, theory; history and narrative; queering narrative; metanarratives; visual art, image, and narrative; narrating gender; spatio-temporal aspects of narrative; narrative innovation and textual event; system-collapse-transgressing narrative; staging narrative; cultural transformations of narrative; narrative and new media; verse narratives; the futures of narrative forms: e-narratives, television, comics, outsider art, fan fictions etc.; ‘ideal’ and ‘degraded’ narratives; genre and narratology; marginality and the limits of narration.
NarrativEncounters encourages the submission of abstracts encompassing all periods, and areas of research.
Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be submitted to the organisers - Danny Kennedy, Deborah Mellamphy, Catherine Smith and Dr. Éibhear Walshe at:
narrativeabstracts@gmail.com
Deadline: December 15th 2007
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