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