Coordinates of Comparison:
Text, Readers, & Theories



Comparative Literature Conference

29-31 August 2007

University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB



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Comparative Literature has traditionally been centred on the comparison of texts from diverse languages and cultures. Texts, however, are merely one coordinate where comparisons converge; more recent scholarship has taken comparative analysis to other regions of investigation, including readers themselves and the theories that underpin literary research. Exploring the territories that map the comparative field is the concern of this conference; we solicit papers from any field concerned with the study of literature.

More specific topics include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

  • The status of theory in contemporary literary studies
  • The relationship between a chosen approach to literature and pedagogy
  • Mind science and pseudoscience in literary scholarship
  • World literature: implications for Comparative Literature
  • The role of empirical research in the study of literature
  • The impact of multi-disciplinarity and inter-disciplinarity on literary scholarship
  • Local moments and global movements: Asian literatures, Indigenous literatures, and other local to global literary movements
  • The shifting borders of "literature": multiple media
  • Ethics and literature
  • The incomparable

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted via email to clc2007@ualberta.ca no later than 30 June 2007. Please include the author's name, telephone number, address, e-mail address, and institutional/departmental affiliation. Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes each.

Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be provided by 15 July 2007.


Mail to:

Coordinates of Comparison Organizing Committee
Comparative Literature Program
Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Arts
1-59 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5

Email: clc2007@ualberta.ca


Sponsors:
Graduate Student's Association | Comparative Literature Program
University of Alberta International | English and Film Studies

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