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      Not only poetry, but also works of fiction include pieces of writing that are prone to provide both emotional and cognitive pleasure because they are made of “language at its most distilled and most powerful” (Rita Dove). Yet these passages too often escape an analysis that combines reading aloud, close reading and…

Call for papers     Keynote speakers: Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University, UK), Dave McKean (UK) and Kate Newell (Savannah College of Art and Design, USA)   Illustr4tio’s forthcoming bilingual international conference will deal with the relationship between illustration and adaptation. It aims to allow specialists from different disciplines to compare and exchange on practice, methodology, and…

  Not ‘all the same.’ Boosting the political participation of under-represented groups among electors and the elected in Britain   This study day will explore the political participation of under-represented groups as electors and the elected within traditional political institutions in Britain. The focus will be on barriers to participation and especially the mechanisms employed…

Sultan Moulay Slimane University Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of English Studies Beni Mellal, Morocco The RLCC Research Laboratory     The Problematic of Difference International Conference 10-11 April 2019   Call for Papers   The concept of difference occupies a central position in cultural theory while remaining, to some extent, undertheorized. The undertheorizing…

Multilinguisme et Altérité Objectifs & Thème de la journée d’étude Cette journée d’étude sera consacrée à la place et à la perception du multilinguisme dans les communautés majoritairement monolingues. Si la langue fait la nation, comme ont pu l’écrire l’abbé Grégoire ou Arthur Schlesinger Jr., le multilinguisme fait-il forcément glisser de la communauté au communautarisme ? Dans quelle…

– EA 4085 VALE (Axe Modernités 16-18) Maison de la recherche, salle D 223 Dans The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1848), Thackeray livre le portrait d’un jeune homme dont la fortune se construit en partie grâce au jeu : assisté par son oncle, Barry écume les salles et les salons de jeu en Europe, et les succès…

    From Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to contemporary works on migration and travel, for instance Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River, travelling texts and bodies have been at the core of Anglophone Literature. Bodies transform themselves as they cross political, national or cultural boundaries, and so do texts centred on bodily experiences which circulate across national…

COLLOQUE DES DOCTORANTS ET JEUNES CHERCHEURS Mercredi 5 juin 2019 & jeudi 6 juin 2019   Laboratoire HCTI EA 4249 (Héritages et Constructions dans le Texte et l’Image) Ecole Doctorale Arts, Lettres et Langues Université de Bretagne Occidentale Brest, France   « Hors-champ et non-dit dans le texte et l’image »   La profusion de discours, textuels…