Colloque Robert Graves
Appel à contribution:
12th International Robert Graves Society Conference, 8-12 July 2014, Majorca.
‘Robert Graves: Humour, Irony, Tragedy, and the Grotesque’
Proposals are invited for papers (20-30 minutes) on the broad topics of humour,
irony, tragedy and the grotesque in Graves’s work. Specific areas might include
(but are not limited to) the following: Robert Graves and The Future of Humour ;
humour and irony in war memoir and autobiography; Robert Graves’s poetic
grotesques; the multiple uses of irony in Graves’s literary criticism; irony and
ambiguity in Graves and Empson; the politics of humour and the Clark Lectures;
versions of tragedy and comedy in Graves’s Goddess poems; Graves’s Roman novels and the element of farce; comedy and tragedy in Graves’s personal narratives and life writing; comedy in Graves’s historical novels; nonsense in Graves’s light fiction; post-war English humour and the post-war poems; conflicting impulses in Graves’s poetry, 1920-1930: traditional humour and modernist irony; the relation between humour and ‘poetic unreason’; the tragic element in Graves’s later poetry.
Critical responses to recent works on Graves, papers on research in progress, on
recently discovered archival material of interest to Graves scholars, on digital
collections or on exhibitions of Graves’s work, and on comparative readings of
Graves, are also welcome.
Proposals (250 words) should be sent by 31 January 2014 to Prof. Fran Brearton,
Queen’s University Belfast:
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Posy Simmonds.