31.848, Confs: Ling & Lit, Translation/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-848. Mon Mar 02 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.848, Confs: Ling & Lit, Translation/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:01:25
From: Sandra Daroczi [S.Daroczi at bath.ac.uk]
Subject: A new ‘feminist’ novel? Popular narratives and the pleasures of reading

 
A new ‘feminist’ novel? Popular narratives and the pleasures of reading 

Date: 28-May-2020 - 29-May-2020 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Sandra Daroczi 
Contact Email: S.Daroczi at bath.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22086 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Translation 

Meeting Description: 

The deadline for the submission of abstracts has now been extended until
Monday, 9 March 2020 for our forthcoming conference A new ‘feminist’ novel?
Popular narratives and the pleasures of reading.

We are also very excited to be able to confirm our keynote speakers: Dr
Loredana Di Martino (University of San Diego) and the French writer Agnès
Martin-Lugand (http://www.agnesmartinlugand.fr/)

This cross-cultural conference takes its cue from the recent popularity of a
number of novels focusing on women by authors from around the world, for
example Elena Ferrante’s quartet L'amica geniale,  Agnès Martin-Lugand's Les
gens heureux lisent et boivent du café, Anna Gavalda’s Ensemble c’est tout,
Tatiana de Rosnay’s Elle s’appelait Sarah, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s
Tale and The Testaments, Madeline Miller’s Circe, and Rosa Montero’s La carne.
The popularity of these novels has been increased by their translations into
many languages and their transfer to cinema and the small screen, pointing to
their relevance to women’s lives around the globe and sensitizing audiences to
old and new feminist issues. The aim of the conference is to explore the
recent ‘return to the story’ and the tensions that follow, thus working
towards a theorization of the pleasures of reading. The focus is both on the
textual and authorial control of the reading process and the readerly power
over the text.
 

Program Information and Call for Papers: 

Submissions are welcomed across a range of topics and questions including, but
not limited to:

 - What linguistic devices do these popular narratives use to attract such
large audiences? 
 - How are these linguistic devices transferred from one language to the other
when the works are translated? 
 - To what extent have translations contributed to the success of these texts?
 - What links can be established between translations and commercial success? 
 - Links between extradiegetic and diegetic readings
 - The power of texts to establish a connection with their readers and
generate empathy
 - To what extent is the act of reading situated in time and place?
 - The merging of self-reflexivity and realism in these narratives
 - What tropes of classic popular fiction (for example, characters and plot)
are being used or remodelled?
 - Feminist ideas and ideals present in these popular novels
 - What feminist readings, if any, do they encourage?
 - How do they pass on feminist messages, if at all?
 - What literary strategies do they use to be both popular and (politically)
committed?
 - Links between commercial success and readers’ empowerment
 - Is this literature escapist? Can escapism be productive?
 
Papers are invited from a range of literatures and languages. The event will
be in English.
 
Proposals of no more than 250 words for 20-minute papers and a short bio
should be sent by Monday, 9 March 2020 to popular.novel2020 at gmail.com

Full information about the conference can be found at:
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22086





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