[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets (grad) (1/5/07; 3/30/07-3/31/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets
English Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
March 30-31, 2007

Call for papers and panels:

“Conversations Between the Sheets” is concerned with the direct and/or
indirect discourse between texts that takes place when authors (whoever
an author may be—from a single writer or coauthors to a community of
editors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) interact with each
other—alluding, referencing, paraphrasing, quoting, borrowing, sharing,
stealing, extending, challenging, or opposing each others’ ideas.
Whether it is in the form of support, abuse, or simply recognition of
ideas between writers, texts converse with each other.

The Second Annual Graduate Student Conference at the University of Tulsa
would like to invite proposals for papers on the theme of
intertextuality. Although we invite papers that apply the term “text”
loosely (i.e. film, music, art), the paper should have an overall
literary focus.  Papers for this conference can include, but are not
limited to, discussing intertextuality…

• as present along the lines of literary tradition (Eliot, et al.); the
ways authors think of themselves in relation to their predecessors and
deal with the pressure of generic and stylistic conventions as well as
experimental competition both as an anxiety of influence and a rewriting
of past works (Bloom) and as a limiting of creative potential (Said and
Benjamin)
• within a work, such as when an author directly quotes another author’s
work or there is evidence an author was influenced by another author’s work
• when an author integrates genres such as a poem within a novel or when
an author layers a text such as a play within a play
• as a source of humor, both within satire and in contemporary “empty”
referential humor
• within an individual author’s oeuvre
• and the creation of tension through adaptation both within and across
genres
• at the level of language and the relationship of linguistic units to
other levels of units, such as neologisms and heteroglossia; meanings
internal to language and their integrative relationships; language as a
textual system in which several codes are always at work (Kristeva)
• and the distinction between allusion and plagiarism and the modernist
project somewhere in between (The Waste Land); the distinction between
intention (what Hutcheon calls parody) and unconscious
• as it relates to what Cary Nelson calls “coherent mixed genres” such
as periodicals that pull multiple authors and modes of representations
into dialogue with one another with varying levels of consistency and
editorial vision or control
• and the nature of contemporary postmodern/postindustrial technological
culture, particularly with reference to hypertext within the field of
literary studies
• and the way a text works referentially within the cultural and
ideological formations of a specific historical moment

We are looking for submissions from graduate students and advanced
undergraduate students.  Please send a 300-500 word abstract for a 20
minute presentation or a 300-500 word panel proposal to
english-grad-conf at utulsa.edu by January 5th, 2007.  The conference will
take place at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from the
afternoon of March 30th to the evening of March 31st.  Please refer to
our website for updates: www.cas.utulsa.edu/english/conference

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