29.4352, Calls: Ling & Literature/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4352. Tue Nov 06 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4352, Calls: Ling & Literature/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:19:35
From: Craig Jordan-Baker [c.jordan-baker at brighton.ac.uk]
Subject: Powerful Literary Fiction Texts - a Stylistic, Empirical and Performance-based Approach

 
Full Title: Powerful Literary Fiction Texts - a Stylistic, Empirical and Performance-based Approach 
Short Title: p-lit 

Date: 19-Jun-2019 - 21-Jun-2019
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Craig Jordan-Baker
Meeting Email: c.jordan-baker at brighton.ac.uk
Web Site: https://p-lit.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

Not only poetry, but also works of fiction include pieces of writing that are
prone to provide both emotional and cognitive pleasure because they are made
of “language at its most distilled and most powerful” (Rita Dove). Yet these
passages too often escape an analysis that combines reading aloud, close
reading and a study of the text’s potential effects on readers. This
international conference series invites contributors to select and explore
prose extracts through such a mixed approach. Any kind of literary fiction may
be considered, irrespective of subgenre, literary tradition, or intended
audience. Each excerpt – be it a set of phrases or sentences, a paragraph or a
longer extract – will be examined as a textual composition likely to elicit
specific responses on the reader’s part. How does the text capture the
reader’s attention or interest? How does it provide aesthetic appeal and
trigger powerful positive, negative or mixed emotions? In other words, how do
specific stylistic features shape reader’s responses?


Call for Papers:

This conference has been conceived as a convivial event, aiming to foster
interaction between attendees: there will be only one talk at a time and
lunches will be provided, as well as an opening reception on the first evening
of the conference. 

Submission guidelines:

Presentation time for each paper will be 20-25 minutes, followed by a 5-10
minutes discussion. 

Please submit a short bio (not longer than 50 words) including your name and
institutional affiliation, and a completely anonymised file consisting of the
abstract (up to 300 words, excluding references; unpublished work) and the
literary excerpt(s) under study. If the selected excerpts are not in English,
we kindly ask contributors to base their presentation on an English
translation (preferably a professional one) that allows following the argument
of the paper. Please send the two files to the following e-mail address:
plit.conference at gmail.com 

The deadline for submission is 15 December 2018.

Keynote speakers:

- Nigel McLoughlin, Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, Northern
Irish poet and editor.
- Michael Toolan, Professor at the University of Birmingham, chair of the
Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and editor.

Organisers:

- Mariane Utudji, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (France)
- Victoria Pöhls, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt,
Germany)
- Dr Craig Jordan-Baker, University of Brighton (United Kingdom)




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