Call for papers. Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
Range of possible streams:
Call for Papers
Abstracts are invited for submission by Tuesday 1st March 2011.
The following topics are simply suggestions for possible frameworks for conference presentations:
- Literary demongraphics
- Institutions of literature
- ‘Regimes of value’
- Categories of the ‘literary’
- Literary production and circulation
- Readerships
- Reading practices: making the text meaningful
- Methodologies
- Genre
- Performativity, creativity
- Teaching practices: secondary and tertiary pedagogies
- Canonicity, selection, legitimation
- Literary praxis
- National curriculum issues
- Nation, region, world: the ‘place’ of Australian literature
- Literature and politics, political readings
- Extreme readings
- The value of reading ‘emotionally’
- Literary controversies and debates
- Literary dispositions
- Critical distance
- Passion and structures of feeling
- Love, hate, indifference: readers, texts and teachers
200 word abstracts should be sent to: asal2011-info@unimelb.edu.au
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Tuesday, 1st March 2011