[Discussion] CFP: Dreaming, Imagination, and Non-Discursive Rhetoric (8/15/05; RSA, 5/26/06-5/29/06)

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From: Joddy Murray <jmurray@tricity.wsu.edu>

Dreaming, Imagination, and Non-Discursive Rhetoric
Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference
May 26-29, 2006
Memphis, Tennessee

The imagination, according to Aristotle, provides the same kind of sensory
information to our consciousness during dreaming as our actual senses 
provide to
our consciousness during wakeful periods (459a1 15-22). If it is the 
case that
our knowledge-making derives from sense-perception, then it must also be the
case that the texts we imagine during the dream state are also capable of
producing knowledge. But what is this knowledge? And what kind of text 
is this?

This panel invites papers/multimodal presentations that explore dream 
rhetorics,
both in how these image-based texts may be non-discursive, as well as 
how dreams
themselves persuade and influence our lives. Other than just discussing the
newest in neurological research being done on the purpose of dreaming (or,
ultimately, interpretations of dreams themselves), this panel will look 
at the
way dreams function as text: what relationships there may be between the 
dream
image and non-discursive language, the role (and connections between) the
imagination and dreams, and, perhaps more broadly, the way in which the
perseverance (or echo) of a dream may guide rhetorical practice.

Send 250-300 word abstracts by August 15th, 2005, to Joddy Murray at
jmurray@tricity.wsu.edu or via snail mail:

Joddy Murray, PhD
Assistant Professor
Digital Technology & Culture
Department of English
Washington State University, Tri-Cities
Richland, WA  99354

http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/~jmurray


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