[Discussion] UPDATE: Other Dreams (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

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From: "Margaret W. Cotter-Lynch" <mcotter@sosu.edu>

PLEASE NOTE: The submission deadline for abstracts has been extended to
November 30, 2005.

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in
Princeton, NJ:

Other Dreams

In the post-Freudian West, dreams are most often understood as expressions of
our unconscious, or subconscious, selves. But prior to and outside of the
psychoanalytic tradition, dreams have often been seen as privileged locations
for connection between humans and their others. Religious and mythological
traditions from around the world emphasize the potential of dreams to lead the
dreamer outside of herself, to provide access to super-human, extra-human, or
other-than-human realms. Many cultures have thus produced literature in which
dreams are shown to provide connection with the divine; to be a source of hidden
truths; to allow the human soul to travel outside of the body; to transcend the
human constraints of geography and time. How have world literatures figured
dreams as a point of contact between humans and others?

Submissions are invited for a discussion of dreams in the context of the
relationship between humans and their others. How do dreams figure the
relationship between the dreamer and things outside of herself? What can humans
do in dreams that they cannot otherwise do? How does the otherness of dreams
serve to define the humanness of the waking self? What literary purposes do
dreams serve, if not to elucidate the mind of the dreamer?

Papers should be 15 minutes in length, and discuss literary accounts of dreaming
which are outside of or challenging to the psychoanalytic tradition. 
Discussions of literatures from all time periods and cultures are encouraged.

Abstracts should be 250 words, and submitted online at
http://aslamp01.princeton.edu/%7Eoitdas/acla06/

The American Comparative Literature Association annual conference is organized
primarily into seminars (or "streams"), which consist either of twelve papers,
if they meet on all three days of the conference, or eight to nine papers, if
they meet on two days. Papers should be 15-20 minutes long-no longer-to allow
time for discussion. For further information about the conference, including the
format, please see http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, but all abstracts must be
submitted through the online form above.

Best,
Meg Cotter-Lynch
Assistant Professor
Department of English, Humanities, and Languages Southeastern Oklahoma
State University Durant, OK 74701
580-745-2986
mcotter@sosu.edu



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