The Fourteenth Triennial Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association

Literatura comparada, Literatura peninsular, Literatura de los Siglos de Oro, Teoría de la literatura

Call for papers: Proposals are invited for papers, in English, of no more than 20 minutes’ duration, on or in relation to the conference’s theme of Salvage. Proposals, in the form of an abstract of 250 words accompanied by a brief ‘bio-note’ of 50 words at most, should be submitted by email to bcla2016@wlv.ac.uk by no later than 30 September 2015.Keywords 1. Retrieval: recuperation, recovery, rediscovery, exhumation, remembering, recollecting, resurrection, repossession; 2. Saving: rescue, survival, reprieve, restoration, resuscitation, repair, preservation, conservation, consecration, canonization, quotation, re-edition, translation, legitimisation, de-criminalization; 3. Saving the spirit: redemption, salvation, renaissance, rebirth, liberation, emancipation; 4. Re-using: recycling, re-processing, triage, bricolage, ecology, scavenging, transformation, imitation, plagiarising, transmutation, adaptation, metamorphosis, anniversary, commemoration; 5. Reconfiguring: blending, merging, distilling, filtering, abstracting, editing, expurgating, bowdlerising, disguising, distortion; 6. Remains: rubbish, gold under dirt, detritus, ruins, monuments, residue, ecology, collage; 7. The antithesis of salvage: suppression, censorship, stigmatization, defamation, repression, eradication, erosion, disarticulation, oblivion, forgetting. For further information, please see the full conference description on the website.

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