[New-Poetry] call for papers

[Anny Ballardini]

Conference: "Poets and Theory," organized by the GRAAT, Université François
Rabelais, Tours, January 22-23, 2008

 This conference aims to explore the relationship between English-language
poets and theory. Many openly address technical matters in the course of
their poems-Pope, Bishop, Ferlinghetti, Marechera-, in their letters-Sydney,
Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Lowell-in theoretical and polemical
texts-Coleridge, Whitman, Stevens, Auden, O'Hara Olson, Ashbery, Howe, Taban
lo Liyong, Hejinian-when they do not adopt several, if not all, of the above
strategies to question their own artistic practices. Those texts often
present their authors' programmatic orientations along lines that appear to
conform or call into question their own poetic endeavors. What is more, they
often present poetry as a choice medium to access the world.

The "Poets and Theory" conference will be keen to question those texts
penned by poets-poems, translations, manifestoes, prefaces, reviews, essays,
books, etc.-that offer up a reasoned critique of their art in relation to
their own poems as well as those of their predecessors and their
contemporaries. Discussion of the topic might eventually confirm or
invalidate Eliot's well-known statement that « [t]he poetic critic is
criticizing poetry in order to create poetry » (The Sacred Wood, 1922).

Paper proposals should be emailed by 30 June, 2007 to Éric Athenot
(eric.athenot at wanadoo.fr) and Guillaume Cingal
(guillaume.cingal at univ-tours.fr).
 

 

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Marc CHENETIER
Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot
Institut Universitaire de France
President, European Association for American Studies
30 rue Pouchet
75017-Paris
Tel : +33 (0)1 48 56 15 54
e-mail : chenetier at eaas.eu




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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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