Connotations symposia

The Connotations symposia are held biennially by the Connotations Society for Critical Debate. The first symposium sponsored by the Connotations Society was held in 1990.^[1]

Overview

The emphasis of the Connotations symposia is on critical debate. Participants from all over the world deliver papers on literature from the Middle English period to the present, as well as American and other literatures in English. Talks are 30 minutes, leaving another 30 minutes for discussion. Revised versions of conference papers are published in Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.^[2]

The 13th International Connotations-Symposium Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts took place in 2015 at Schloss Hohentübingen, Germany.^[3]

Subjects of earlier symposia

• The Idea of Tolerance in Pre-Revolutionary England (1990),
• Paronomasia in the English Renaissance and After (1992),
• The Presence of Myth in American Literature (1995),
• A Place Revisited (1997),
• Poetry as Procreation (1999),
• The Poetics of Conversation in Twentieth-Century Literature and Criticism (2001),
• Sympathetic Parody (2003),
• Textual Surprises (2005),
• Restored from Death in Literature and Literary Theory (2007),
• Roads Not Taken (2009),
• Poetic Economy: Ellipsis and Redundancy in Literature (2011),
• Poetry in Fiction: Poetic Insertions, Allusions, and Rhythms in Narrative Texts (2013),
• Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts (2015).

References

External links

• Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate-official website