Magdalen College, Oxford<\/p>\n\n\n\n
25 September 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keynotes: <\/strong>Professor Anahid Nersessian <\/strong>(UCLA; author, The Calamity Form <\/em>and Keats\u2019s Odes<\/em>) Dr Adam Phillips <\/strong>(general editor of Freud for Penguin Books) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Email abstracts (250 words) and bios (75 words) to influenceoxford@gmail.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 May. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Texts influence one another and influence us as readers. Half a century ago, Harold Bloom evolved a template for understanding the process of poetic influence in The Anxiety of Influence<\/em>, which he characterized as an agonised and agonistic misreading of great precursors, by authors under the pressure of Freudian anxiety. However, the land lies differently in 2023, and the essential questions that Bloom tackled are inviting new answers and methodologies from across the discipline of literary studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This conference invites papers which consider influence as an Anglophone literary phenomenon over the last\u00a0 five centuries. It is concerned with the theory of influence, specific examples of it, and new methods in\u00a0 criticism and research, whether imaginative, technical, or speculative. Approaches from neighbouring\u00a0 disciplines such as history, philosophy, and anthropology are welcome. Papers should be a maximum of 20\u00a0 minutes long and are invited on all aspects of literary influence, including:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 \u2018Influence\u2019 as a critical or historical concept <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Influence beyond the canon <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb Recovering forgotten or marginalized influences <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb Post-colonial influence <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb Influence across borders <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb Queer influences <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb Influence between social divides <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Influence between eras <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Influence between genres, or between non-\u2018literary\u2019 and \u2018literary\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 The influence of non-authorial agents on the shape of a text <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Memory, mistakes, misreading, and misremembering <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Theoretical approaches to influence, such as \u2018paranoid reading\u2019,\u00a0deconstruction, and intentionalism\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 The problems of revision, multiple authorship, or anonymity <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 The influence of critical schools and the academy <\/p>\n\n\n\n Papers might also treat the anniversary of Bloom\u2019s book as a springboard, approaching topics such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Renaissance influence. <\/strong>Bloom believed that the early moderns, the \u2018giant age before the flood\u2019, were influenced differently to later eras. How, then, did Renaissance writers make sense of influence and influence once another, and how has their influence subsequently been felt? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 The \u2018apocalypse\u2019 of influence studies? How are the digital humanities rethinking \u2018source hunting\u2019 and \u2018allusion counting\u2019 in the 21st century? Has there been a noticeable shift \u2018from scholars to computers\u2019 \u2013 the move Bloom thought would spell the \u2018apocalypse\u2019 of the industry? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2756 Psychologising influence. How far is it true that literary influence is a psychological process, tapping into fears, memories, or prejudices beyond the aesthetic? What about the tension between outside influence and the self? Can influence be a form of self-fashioning? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Either way, it seems like an appropriate tribute on the fiftieth anniversary to wrestle free of the great original; swerve away from it; do something different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Convenors: Lewis Roberts <\/strong>(St John\u2019s College, Cambridge); Jacob Ridley <\/strong>(University College, Oxford); Roddy Howland Jackson <\/strong>(Magdalen College, Oxford); Ruby Hutchings <\/strong>(Queens\u2019 College, Cambridge). Email: influenceoxford@gmail.com; Twitter: @influenceoxford <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Magdalen College, Oxford 25 September 2023 Keynotes: Professor Anahid Nersessian (UCLA; author, The Calamity Form and Keats\u2019s Odes) Dr Adam Phillips (general editor of Freud for Penguin Books) Email abstracts… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[47,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}