[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Language of Play/Play of Language (3/15/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

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From: Sura Rath <RathS@cwu.EDU>

Session Title:	Game, Play, Literature

Topic: Language of Play/Play of Language

Name of Chair/Moderator: Sura P. Rath (Central Washington University)


Since the late 1960's, when Jacques Derrida proposed the free-play of 
language
as the cornerstone of deconstruction, the concept of play has gained growing
critical attention. Together with Johan Huizinga's homo ludens: a study 
of the
play elements in culture (1955) and Mikhail Bakhtin's reformulation of the
cultural value of carnivals, Derrida's deconstruction has located in 
game-play a
comprehensive metaphor for both the content and method of construction of
textual meanings. This session, framed in its title by "language" at its
beginning and end and textured by mirror images of repetitive play in the
center, will provide a forum for discussions on how high brow theory 
playfully
deconstructs itself in its representations of reality and virtuality even as
carnivalesque celebration of ritualized laughter subverts rigid social
hierarchies of feudalism. It will be formatted as a round-table panel 
discussion
with 6-7 participants, each with a 10-minute opening remark, followed by
audience participation.

Proposals (500 words) are invited for presentation at this panel. 
Deadline March
15, 2006. Electronic submission preferable.


Sura P. Rath, Director
The William O. Douglas Honors College
Central Washington University
Language & Literature Building, #103B
400 East University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7521

Phone: 509-963-1440
Fax:      509-963-1206
Email:   raths@cwu.edu



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