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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:21:28 EDT
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Call for Papers: Icons / Texts / Iconotexts

                   ICONS - TEXTS - ICONOTEXTS

      NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN EKPHRASIIS AND INTERMEDIALITY

                         1700-1900

An International Symposium to be held at the Universiy of Eichstatt,
                   Germany, May 13-15, 1993

     This international meeting will be concerned with the intermedial
relations between art and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.
As both the period before 1700 and the 20th century have been the sub-
ject of recent conferences, we want to focus on the age of Enlightenment,
Romanticism, and the later Victorian period.  Trying to avoid well-
trodden paths as well as subjects, we envisage three sections/workshops
dealing with:
    1) Theory
       The focus will be on problems of ekphrasis and the interpretation
       of images/iconotexts as seen from various angles and disciplines
       (e.g., philosophy, literary criticism, art history, psychology,
       and semiotics).  We particularly encourage interdisciplinary
       approaches.
    2) The 18th Century
       We invite papers on the emerging theory and criticism of art
       (such as the treatises by Diderot, Rousseau, Lessing, and
       Hogarth); analyses of ekphrasists (e.g., the commentaries on
       Hogarth's graphic art by Lichtenberg, Trusler, and Rouquet);
       and studies of particular artists/writers and works.  Contri-
       butions on iconotexts (works uniting both verbal and visual
       signs/texts/language) will be especially welcome.
    3) The 19th Century
       Papers are solicited on those artists and writers whose works are
       characterized by intermedial aspects (e.g. J.L. David and French
       politics; English caricaturists; Herman Melville and painters;
       the Preraphaelites; the Hudson school in America, &c.

    The language of communication will be English, with a few papers
given in French.  Translation, where needed, will be provided.  We expect
to publish the proceedings of the conference in 1994..

Scholars who have agreed to deliver papers include:
    * Michel Baridon (on gardens and ideology_;
    * David Bindman (on Gillray);
    * Jean-Pierre Dubost (on Rousseau and images);
    * Bernadette Fort (on Diderot);
    * Ge'rard Genette (on imagery);
    * Fre'de'ric Oge'e (on Sterne and Fragonard);
    * Karl Riha (on early cartoons);
    * Peter Sabor (on pictures in Jane Austen's fiction);
    * P.J. de Voogd (on Hogarth and Fielding).

    Situated in one of Germany's most beautiful regions (Altmu:hltal),
the town of Eichsta:t is a true gem of the baroque period and the ideal
location for a bucolic symposium.  You will be surprised by the
splendour of the buildings as well as by the recent architectural feats
uniting the rococo with the post-modern.  Eichsta:tt lies half-way
between Munich and Nuremberg and in the vicinity of other interesting
Bavarian locales, such as Regensburg, Wu:rzburg, and the castles of
Ludwig II.

    Please send us an abstract of your paper (c. 100 words). We will
provide you with further detailed information (programme, speakers,
excursions, travelling, accommodation, &c.) ... later this year.

Peter Wagner or Roland Hagenbu:chle
Universita:t Eichsta:tt
D-8078 Eichsta:tt
Germany
FAX: 08421 20599
TEL: 08421 20373  or 20474
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