When: |
04 Nov 2017 | |
CFP Deadline: |
04 |
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Where: |
Luton, United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
https://www.beds.ac.uk/edgepoetics | |
Sponsoring organization: |
University of Bedfordshire | |
Categories: |
Arts & Humanities - Languages/Literature |
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Event description:
Keynotes from Professor Robert Sheppard (Edge Hill University) and Nicholas Royle (Manchester Metropolitan University), and contributions from Dr Helen Marshall (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Daniel Watt (Loughborough University).
In the late essay, ‘Literature and Life’, Gilles Deleuze expands on ideas from his earlier work about the ways literary writing can open up ‘a kind of foreign language within language, which is neither another language nor a rediscovered patois, but a becoming-other of language, a minorization of this major language, a delirium that carries it off, a witch’s line that escapes the dominant system.’
Till relatively recently, Creative Writing in Higher Education has been dominated by a set of techniques and tropes derived from realism, and also by the expectations of mainstream literary fiction. Increasingly, however, aspects of innovative and speculative poetics are finding their way into the classroom.
This one-day symposium will ask: what are t...
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