[ecrea] cfp - 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 ÅBO 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 literatures 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 Keatss 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.
Roger D. Sell
H.W. Donner Research Professor of Literary Communication


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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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New Book:
Trans-Reality Television
The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience.
Lexington. (Sofie Van Bauwel & Nico Carpentier eds.)
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