[B900] Notizie/A - CfP: Crime Fiction in the Modern Era

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       BOLLETTINO '900 - Notizie / A, aprile 2013

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SOMMARIO:

- CfP: University of Leeds (UK), Faculty of Arts
        and Crime Studies Network
   "Retold, Resold, Transformed?
   Crime Fiction in the Modern Era"
   September 17-18, 2013.
   Abstracts' deadline: May 13, 2013

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La Faculty of Arts della University of Leeds (UK) e il
Crime Studies Network hanno il piacere di invitarvi al
convegno interdisciplinare sulla letteratura noir, dal
titolo "Retold, Resold, Transformed? Crime Fiction in the
Modern Era", che si terra' a Leeds il 17 e 18 settembre 2013.
I lavori, in inglese, con sessioni su varie letterature
nazionali, vertono sulle trasformazioni dei testi noir nel
passaggio da un contesto culturale all'altro o  tra diversi
media. La prospettiva e' internazionale, interdisciplinare,
comparata.

Per maggiori informazioni sul convegno,
incluso il call for paper, si veda il sito:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125158/crimefiction2013

Per informazioni specifiche sulle sessioni dedicate al
noir italiano, potete scrivere a: g.sulis a leeds.ac.uk


In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom.
Although, as Alison Young argues in her bookImagining
Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly identified with
specific locations, the genre has acquired a global reach,
illuminating different corners of the world - from the
downtown precincts of Baltimore to the South African
peninsula to bleak Danish skies - for the delectation of
international audiences. The recent fashion for nordic noir
has highlighted the process by which the crime story may be
franchised, as it is transposed from one culture to another.
Crime fiction has thus become a vehicle for cultural
exchange in the broadest of senses; not only does it move
with apparent ease from one country to the next, and in and
out of different languages, but it is also reproduced
through various cultural media. But what is involved in
these processes of transference? Do stories lose or gain
value? Or are they transformed into something else
altogether? How does the crime story that originates in a
specific society or culture come to articulate aspects of
very different societies and cultures? And what are the
repercussions of this cultural permeability?

The University of Leeds and the Crime Studies Network invite
scholars, practitioners and fans to attend an international,
interdisciplinary conference dedicated to contemporary crime
fiction. It is intended that the conference will attract
delegates from different backgrounds and academic
disciplines, including literary and cultural studies,
stylistics, the philosophy of aesthetics, film, television
and media studies, and sociology. Proposals for papers on
any aspect of contemporary crime fiction are welcomed,
particularly those which address aspects of cultural
exchange and migration, the publishing industry (including
translation and adaptation), reading, reception and
rewriting (including fan fiction and the blogosphere) and
philosophical and literary approaches to questions of
cultural value.

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to
Christiana Gregoriou, one of the conference organisers,
by 13 May 2013. The abstract should include a title, name
and affiliation of the speaker, and a contact email address.
Feel free to submit abstracts presenting work in progress
as well as completed projects. Postgraduate students are
welcome. Note that the conference room has a computer, data
projector and screen; any further AV requests should be made
on submission of the relevant abstract. Papers will be a
maximum of 20 minutes in length, with a maximum of 10 minutes
for questions.

Contact the conference organisers below for more details
or, alternatively, see the Conference Website.

The Crime Studies Network website is accessible at:
http://www.crimestudies.net/

The conference organisers
(including emails and affiliations):
Dr Christiana Gregoriou (c.gregoriou a leeds.ac.uk, English)
Prof David Platten (d.p.platten a leeds.ac.uk, French)
Dr Gigliola Sulis (g.sulis a leeds.ac.uk, Italian)

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(c) Bollettino '900 - versione e-mail
Electronic Newsletter of '900 Italian Literature
Notizie/A, aprile 2013. Anno XIX, 2.

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