Call for Papers
“The Poetics of Conflict and Reconciliation”
October 16-18, 2008
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particular session or two.)
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Guest Speakers are:
Claudia
Emerson, United States
Chris Mann,
Pulitzer Prize winner 2006 Thomas Pringle Award 2007 Crystal of Valenica Award 2004
We are accepting proposals for papers in English with a reading time of 15-20 minutes on the role/use of literature in mediating conflict and/or its relationship to Christianity.
Conflict can occur at international, national, regional, local, domestic and personal levels. Poetics may be broadly defined to include literary, musical, and artistic works. The scope is not limited to a particular place or time.
Random Examples:
the artist as spokesman for peace
the struggle for Irish identity in Seamus Heaney’s poetry
the Soviet poet as mediator
the poet as conscientious objector in World War Two
the poet as mediator in Cromwell’s Protectorate
politics and poetry in Nineteenth-Century Australia
poetry as personal conflict therapy
Confessional poets' use of diction
Student papers will be considered.
Papers addressing the work of any of the featured poets are especially welcome.
Send 100-word abstracts to lit-conf@bridgewater.edu or
Stan Galloway /Poetics Conf.
Dept. of English
Submissions accepted until all sessions full.
Conferees will be required to join the Conference on Christianity and Literature ($25, students $20, non-US $35)
Sponsored by
The Conference on Christianity and Literature, Mideast Region
and
Bridgewater
College, Bridgewater,
(in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley)
Speakers funded by the Rowe Endowment
“A regional conference with a global concern”