8th International Conference of the Tudor Symposium
Adaptation and
Appropriation
Northumbria
University
3-4 July 2013
Confirmed
Speakers: Adam Hansen (Northumbria University), Mike Pincombe (Newcastle
University), Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
How do
adaptations fit texts to new cultural circumstances? What gains or losses are
involved in transformations from page to stage or screen? What are the politics
of appropriating the past? Do adaptations encourage creativity or suppress it? What
is the role of publishers, readers, and the state in promoting or restricting
appropriations of the classics? These questions are as relevant today as they
were 500 years ago. Adaptations of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and
appropriations of the Tudor past are a major feature of our culture, but Tudor
literature was equally characterised by a vigorous appropriation of its
classical and medieval pasts. Yet, questions of adaptation and appropriation in
Tudor England and in our own time (and in the many periods in between) continue
to be studied separately in disciplines with their own scholarly traditions and
theories. This conference aims to bring together scholars working in a variety
of fields to encourage dialogue between different perspectives and methodologies.
We invite
proposals for papers that consider any aspects of the appropriation of past
cultures and texts in Tudor England (1485-1603) and of Tudor texts and culture
from the sixteenth century to the present in all media. This might include the
techniques and processes of literary adaptation; the political uses of texts
from history; the appropriation of the prestige of Tudor literature and culture
in novels, on television, and in musical lyrics; literary tradition and
originality; parody and spoofs; the representation of the Tudors in
contemporary novels and television drama; changing ideas about plagiarism, fidelity,
and originality; the role of patronage and the publishing and film industries
in shaping attitudes towards the past; questions of literary value and canon
formation; censorship and the involvement of the state in the representation
and reproduction of the past. We particularly welcome papers that reflect on
the processes of adaptation and appropriation and different methodologies.
Topics might
include (but are not limited to):
·
the imitation and reception of ancient Greek and Roman literature
in Tudor England
·
Tudor translations
·
staging the classical, medieval, and Tudor past in Elizabethan
England
·
the publication and transformation of medieval literature in
sixteenth-century England
·
Tudor plays in performance from the death of Elizabeth to the
present
·
cinema, television, opera, pop music, and other versions of Tudor
texts
·
the publication, editing, and re-interpretation of Tudor literature
after 1603
- the appropriation of the Tudor past in historical novels, plays, and television series
- foreign-language translations of Tudor texts
- critical models of adaptation, appropriation, imitation, reception, cultural memory, the canon, presentism
Please send
proposals (100 words) by 22 March 2013 to Fred Schurink (fred.schurink@northumbria.ac.uk)
or Monika Smialkowska (monika.smialkowska@northumbria.ac.uk).
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