ACLA Seminar: Form, Formalizing, The Formulaic
Seminar Organizer: Soelve Curdts, Princeton University

How can figures of form, rhyme schemes, repetitions, rhythmic elements which
pervade literary works - often in so far as they are literary - be
distinguished
from the formulaic? When does a metaphor become a dead metaphor? When does
repetition turn from a literary / stylistic device into cliche, into the
hackneyed
or everyday? More broadly speaking, how do all of these questions contribute
to our (human) ability to recognize repetition as such in its difference
from
what is being repeated? Papers addressing all aspects of figures which
oscillate between the heights of form and the abysses of the formulaic
welcome.
Topics might include but are not limited to: lists, "received ideas",
rhetorical questions (how can they be distinguished as rhetorical), dead as
opposed
to living metaphors, and other figures of repetition.

This seminar is being organized for the upcoming conference of the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) which will be held at Princeton
University March 23 - 26 2006.

All paper proposals must be submitted via the conference website at:
http://aslamp01.princeton.edu/%7Eoitdas/acla06/

Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2005.

For general information about the conference go to:
http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/

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