[Bilimsel Haber] Anthologies--A Conference

[Gonul Pultar]

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Anthologies: A Conference

Trinity College, Hartford CT,
12-14 March, 2010

This conference will gather academics who have studied the history of 
the anthology, those who have edited and contributed to them, as well as 
those who use them in their teaching. It will be an opportunity to think 
through the problems and possibilities of the form, to think seriously 
about its origins and its future.

As pedagogical tools, anthologies embody contradictions: they have too 
little of too much. They are essential but superficial; they race 
through the “highlights” of the centuries, but they also offer an 
orientation to our field, its touchstones and its methods. They can be 
literally burdensome ("12 Tons of English Literature"), devices for 
challenging (or reinforcing) the accepted canon and the protocols of our 
field. We persist in using them, perhaps, because they are a means for 
introducing students to our discipline; they offer a gathering of 
significant writers and texts that might otherwise remain marginalized 
or forgotten. Historicized, they become monuments, or sometimes windows, 
to the shape of our profession and our pedagogies.

Topics might include the history of the literary anthology; its role in 
the university; other “collections” of writing—e.g., beauties, 
keepsakes, miscellanies; issues of genre or copyright; disciplinarity, 
pedagogies, or questions of canonicity. Panel proposals are welcome. 
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of the anthology, 
broadly conceived, should be no more than 200 words.

	Thora Brylowe or Paul Lauter
English Department
Trinity College
Hartford, CT 06106
USA

Tel: 860-297-2303;
fax: 860-297-5258
Email: thora.brylowe at trincoll.edu <mailto:thora.brylowe at trincoll.edu>