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Genre Studies: Transforming/Challenging Generic Boundaries (Kairouan/Sbeitla)

Genre Studies: Transforming/Challenging Generic Boundaries (Kairouan/Sbeitla)

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Under the Auspices of the University of Kairouan,           

The Higher Institute of Applied Studies to Humanities in Sbeitla

Organizes its Second International Conference on:

Genre Studies: Transforming/Challenging Generic Boundaries

17th-18th April, 2019

                                              

A growing theoretical interest in genres is emerging in culture, history and literature. Indeed ancient, modern and postmodern notions of genres are intertwined and transformed into novel genres. Biographies, autobiographies and coming-of age stories are blurred into one composite. Storytelling acquires a testimonial dimension in the guise of Freud’s talking cure. Fiction and history are blurred into historical fiction about ancient and modern time periods. The historical novelist and the cultural materialist produce one text challenging the generic boundaries of fiction, non-fiction, literature and culture. Such transformations highlight the peculiarity of generic instability of genres as well as constructing genres as hybrid and various. “A new genre” asserts Tvetzan Todorov “is always the transformation of one or several old genres: by inversion, by displacement, by combination”[1] . Consequently literary genres evolve and are “ reborn and renewed at every stage in the development of literature (…)This constitutes the life of the genre (…) A genre lives in the present, but always remembers its past, its beginning. Genre is representative of creative memory in the process of literary development”[2] . Literary genres therefore possess a life of their own. Thus this International conference aims to clarify the status of contemporary genres and genre studies yet it does not target a historical, typological or epistemological approaches to genres. It rather deals with transformations of traditional genres and sub-genres as caused by challenges imposed by novel studies. We seek to provoke an interdisciplinary study of genre that encompasses a theoretical, diachronic, synchronic and social analysis. Scholars ,  researchers and participants  can cover, but are not limited to the following themes:

History of genre                                            

Genre and ESP

Aesthetic of Genre                               

Genre: Norms/Exception

Globalization and literary genre                   

  Approach to Genre

Theory of genre                                                                                                    

Sociology of Genre

Genre analysis                                                                                                      

 Memory and Genre

Fuctional Systemic Approach to Genre                   

 Genre: readers, writers, users

Genre pedagogies                                                                                                 

Genre vs content

Genres: Varities/peculiarities                     

Travel literature and genre

 

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to: blurredgenre@gmail.com with a short biography.

Deadline for abstract submission: 1st December 2018.

Notification of acceptance: 17th December 2018.

Organizing Committee: Ms. Zeineb Derbali,   Dr.faten houioui, ,  Dr. Souhir Zekri , Dr. Bouteina Majoul,  Dr Hejer Ayedi, Dr. Salwa Jday  ,Dr. Yosra Amraoui, .Dr Lotfi salhi, Ismail Chouaibi.

Conference Convenors:

Ms Zeineb Derbal: zeinebderbali@gmail.com , the Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities in Sbeitla, University of Kairouan

Salwa Mezguidi Jday, salwamezguidi@yahoo.fr the Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities in Sbeitla, University of Kairouan

Participation Fees:  participants should pay the conference and publication fees: TND 50 before 31st January 2019. Modalities of payment will be communicated to participants with the notification of acceptance

              

 

[1] The Origin of Genre (161)

[2]    Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (106). Bakhtin

  • Responsable :
    Ms Zeineb Derbal
  • Adresse :
    The Higher Institute of Applied Studies to Humanities in Sbeitla