[ecrea] CfP: Philosophy of Communication Conference: Literature as Communication.

> CALL FOR
> PAPERS
>
> THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION SECTION OF THE
> EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
> AND THE LITERARY COMMUNICATION PROJECT OF Ã…BO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY
> INVITE PAPERS FOR A SYMPOSIUM ON
> LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION
>
> to be held in Turku, Finland from 2nd to 3rd September, 2011
>
> Not only among literary theoreticians and critics, but also among
> students of rhetoric, communication and media, stylisticians, discourse
> and dialogue analysts, historians of the book, and social and cultural
> philosophers and historians, there is a growing tendency to see literary
> activity as one among other forms of human communication. The Symposium
> will provide a forum in which to assess both the broader and more
> detailed implications of this trend for our understanding of
> literature’s place within the lives of individuals and
> communities.
> The Symposium will assume a nominalistic and broad definition of
> literature. Literature, that is to say, will be viewed as consisting of
> all those texts which, either now or in the past, have been referred to
> as literary, and as not necessarily restricted to merely poems, plays and
> novels.
>
> Papers on the following kinds of topic will be especially
> welcome:
>
> •       Literary-communicational insights
> in current work within any of the disciplines mentioned above: new
> paradigms.
> •       Literary communication as
> community-making.
> •       Literary communication as
> philosophical reflection.
> •       Literary-communicational ethics;
> for instance, the relevance of Keats’s remark that “we hate poetry
> that has a palpable design upon us”.
> •       The communicational workings of
> implied writers and implied readers
> •       Communicational similarities and
> contrasts between singly, collectively and anonymously authored
> texts
> •       Manuscript culture, book culture,
> digital culture: the consequences for literary communication.
> •       The politeness (or otherwise)) of
> literary writers
> •       The communicational dimensions of
> literary styles and / or genres
>
> Proposals (max. 300 words) for papers should be submitted as e-mail
> attachments to the Conference Secretary, Gunilla Ritkaew
> ((gunilla.ritkaew /at/ abo.fi)), before March 31st, 2011.  Requests for
> practical information about registration, travel and accommodation should
> also be directed to the Conference Secretary.
>
> Professor Roger Sell, Ã…BO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY
> Dr Johan Siebers, ECREA
>
> dr. Johan Siebers
>
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