Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts

deadline for submissions: 
June 30, 2025
full name / name of organization: 
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23.2025
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Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited. 

Please submit proposals to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP

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Please contact diana.shaffer@tx.rr.com with any questions.