St. Stephen's College, Delhi
23rd, 24th, 25th February, 2013
St. Stephen’s College, Delhi invites papers for its annual international
conference-festival on Romance in literature, film and popular culture.
Verse and prose sagas of adventure and love in literatures across the
world bear testimony to the earliest literary inclination to Romance.
Such as the tradition of the Hindavi Romance narratives in the
sub-continent that grew out of Sanskrit and Persian to combine rasa and
Sufi allegories in Padmavat and Madhumalti. One strain of the
continental Romance evolved with Spenser, withstood the satire of
Cervantes and the radical departures of the romantics to become the
counterpoint to the realist novel. The Romance has given into new genres
such as magic realism and fantasy fiction, but continues as an enduring
literary style in contemporary world literatures. The secret to the
survival of Romance in literature and popular cultures may be that it is
highly adaptive and popular in appeal. It embraces, in a broad
accommodating sweep, literature and art with all the gravity of the
canon as well as the pulp excluded from it. We seek the romantically
inclined to explore the breadth of Romance – as a literary mode and as a
cultural leitmotif in performative and representative arts. As a
conference-festival, we welcome academic papers, presentations as well
as music and performance art proposals that appraise the value of
Romance.
The conference dates are 23rd, 24th, 25th February, 2013. Please send a 300 hundred word abstract to
stephensconfest@gmail.com by December 10th 2012.
The scope of papers and performance concept may include but are not confined to the following:
- Mythology and History as proportions of Romance
- Realism, Anti-Romance: A Rose is Just a Rose
- Romance of the High Seas
- Melodrama in Romance as a challenge to modernity
- Romance as Nostalgia
- Cinematic Romance
- Musical Romance
- Romantically Ink/lined: Intersecting Art and Literature
- Popular Romance: Pot-Boiler Love
- Rethinking Romance as Genre
- Romance and the philosophical bait
- Creatures of Romance
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