Innovationen und Reproduktionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften (IRICS) Wien, 9. bis 11. Dezember 2005

S E C T I O N S

Spreading the Word: Texts and the Text

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:

Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest)

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ABSTRACT:

Starting from canonical or marginal texts, from classical or modern sources, and combining tradition(s) with innovative moves, the present section looks at a number of types of textual reduplication, from widely recognized echoes and influences to palimpsest effects, 'apostolic' or 'Augustinian' re-enactments, publication history and adaptation policies, cultural ' translations', topological and tropological re-configuration and re-arrangement, and so on.

As it analyses technical aspects of textual construction, reproduction, distribution and dissemination, it focuses on matters of essential cultural importance, such as: the circulation of topoi in, betwen, and among cultural contexts, strategies of reception and rejection, forms of symbiotic coexistence and metabolization, cultural miscegenation, hybridization and creolization, canon formation, revision, and revisionism.

The overall aim of the section is to propose an understanding of the literary text in cultural context, at the modern crossroads of textual multiplication and public consumption, so as to shed new light on, and reconsider the commonly accepted Writer-Text-Reader tryad.

ReferentInnen / Speakers

• Carmen Andras ("Petru Maior" University, Targu Mures, Romania): British Travel Literature in the 19 th Century: Transdisciplinarity and Genre Crossing [ABSTRACT]
• Gonul Bakay (Beykent University, Turkey): Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet: Shakespearian or Turkish Heroes? [ABSTRACT]
• Adina Ciugureanu ("Ovidius" University Constanta, Romania): "Queen Virtue's court" - from Virgin Martyrs to Home-Front Propaganda [ABSTRACT]
• Edward J. Esche (Cambridge University, UK): Stages to Pages: The Four Quartos of Shirley's "The Constant Maid" [ABSTRACT]
• Matthew Graves (Universite de Provence, France): Maps and Texts: locating literary maps [ABSTRACT]
• Evelyne Hanquart-Turner (Université of Paris XII, France): Echoes, palimpsests, transmutations and creation in Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel [ABSTRACT]
• Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest, Romania): Our Demotic Augustinianism, a Pattern Launched by the 18 th-Century Novel [ABSTRACT]
• Carlos Leone (Universidade Lusófona, Portugal): From Criticism to Text: Modernity in the Making[ABSTRACT]
• Charles W.R.D. Moseley (Cambridge University, UK ): Waiting for the death of Little Nell: gas, flong, and the nineteenth century novel [ABSTRACT]
• Carmen Musat (University of Bucharest, Romania): Rewriting, Overwriting - The Palimpsest Effect in Contemporary Fiction [ABSTRACT]
• Cristina Neagu (Oxford University, UK): Giordano Bruno in England: Codified Rhetoric and Subversive Imprints [ABSTRACT]
• Patricia Parker (Stanford University, USA): Changing the Text: Editing and the Text It Creates [ABSTRACT]
• Maria Leonor Santa Barbara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Protugal) / Maria do Rosário Laureano Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): António José da Silva: Innovation and Classical Tradition in the Portuguese of the 18 th-century theatre [ABSTRACT]
• Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen, Norway): 'Not for the profoundly learned': John Bell's 'Acting' edition of Shakespeare [ABSTRACT]
• Sebastian Sobecki (Cambridge University, UK) : "Now That We Talk of Dying": The Public Hermeneutics of Hume's Ars Moriendi [ABSTRACT]
• Ludmila Volna (Université Paris XII, Charles University Prague): Creating and Re-creating Texts in R. K. Narayan's Mr Sampath - the Printer of Malgudi [ABSTRACT]