“Evolving Intertextualities: Voices, Visions, and Virtualities”March 28-29, 2008
University of Alaska Anchorage
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Bruce McComiskey, University of Alabama, specialist in rhetoric and composition, classical rhetoric, and professional writing. Author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric.
Dr. Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria, specialist in Victorian Studies, with a particular focus on the relation between gender studies and the Victorian novel. Author of Bleak Houses: Marital Violence and Victorian Fiction.
The Pacific Rim Conference on Literature & Rhetoric, in its 13th year, is an annual conference organized by Department of English graduate students and faculty at the University of Alaska Anchorage. We welcome critical papers pertaining to literature, literary studies, rhetoric, and composition from across the disciplines.
Call for Papers
Defined broadly by Roland Barthes as a “web of signs” and by Julia Kristeva as a “tissue of quotations,” intertextuality is one of those malleable terms easily appropriated across disciplines by multiple schools of thought. Originating in literary studies to describe the interconnectivity of texts, from a rhetorical perspective intertextuality also alludes to the social nature and function of writing. Traceable throughout periods, genres, rhetorics, and cultures, the amorphous nature of intertextuality is a blessing, but it is also a curse insofar as its countless variations prove challenging to classify.
The title of this year’s conference – “Evolving Intertextualities: Voices, Visions, and Virtualities” – refers to current extensions of intertextuality to auditory, visual, and technological media. As such, the biological metaphor of evolution seems apt.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Adaptation, appropriation, and allusion
- Audience
- Cliché
- Evolving composition processes
- Hypertext and the internet
- Image, illustration, and film
- Influence versus intertextuality
- Literary Darwinism
- Plagiarism and imitation
- Trace and palimpsest
- Transtextuality
- Visual Rhetoric
P
lease submit proposals to aypacrim@uaa.alaska.edu no later than February 8, 2008.
Individual paper proposals: Please send an abstract (500 words max.). All paper proposals must include the title of the paper; presenter's name and institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone and fax number, and email address.
Panel proposals: Please send an abstract (700 words max.) summarizing the panel's rationale and describing each paper. All panel proposals must include a title for the panel and a title for each paper. In addition, please include each panel member's name and institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax number, and email address.
Please direct questions and concerns to:
Clare Chesher and Laura Eidam, Conference Directors
Department of English, PSB 204A
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
(907) 786-4826
aypacrim@uaa.alaska.edu
