[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Text Landscape Identity (UK) (3/30/07; 9/13/07-9/15/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Text Landscape Identity

An Inter-disciplinary Conference for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

September 13th-15th 2007, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn.

In the last twenty years the notion of landscape has undergone
significant theoretical development which has focused attention on
discourses, knowledge, power and questions of representation.
Geographers have reconfigured the relationship between landscape and
identity by drawing on a range of cultural texts. However, their
treatment of creative writing has been incomplete, despite cultural
geography’s engagement with literary theory. Bosseau (1995) criticised
geographers for merely combing novels for relevant spatial elements.
Despite a trickle of research on writers' geographical imaginations, the
textualisation of mobility, and literature and cultural difference,
Sharp (2000) argued that Geography's vision of its relationship with
literature remains limited.

Literary Studies, similarly, has engaged with the social or
psychological relations of individual authors to landscapes (cf. Fulford
1996), but not fully understood (a) the combined influence of landscapes
and their literary constructions on the creative process and (b) the
significance of that process as half-conceived and half-written.
Although the reciprocal relationship between the literary text and the
historical 'reality' of landscapes has long been understood (Landry
2001), most recently through eco-criticism, questions remain about, for
example, generic pressures (e.g. how does a writer respond not just to
landscape but to conventions of landscape writing?) and the motility of
the creative process (e.g. how does the writer's response to landscape
shift through the stages of writing?).

Questions we would seek to discuss include:

• How do landscape, the textual representation of landscape and the
process of representing landscape help shape identity?
• How does a sense of identity inform textual representations of
landscape, in turn?
• How do the genres of landscape-writing influence representations of
landscape and identity?
• How do we apply literary models of authorship and readership to the
experiences of 'real' authors and readers in response to landscape?

Keynote speakers:
Professor Timothy Fulford, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Professor Donna Landry, University of Kent, UK
Professor Kenneth Olwig, SLU, Sweden

Please send enquiries or abstracts of 300 words by 30th March 2007 to
the co-organisers:
Dr. Catherine Brace, Department of Geography, University of Exeter,
Cornwall Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ; email: cbrace at exeter.ac.uk
Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra, Department of English, University of Exeter,
Cornwall Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ; email: a.g.johns-putra at exeter.ac.uk

Other events in this series:
• Writing Landscape – an interdisciplinary symposium. 19th March 2007,
Stewart House, University College London
• Written Landscape – a symposium for writers and scholars. 7th-8th July
2007, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Exeter.
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