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The 2002 International Robert Graves conference will be held July 9-13, 2002, at the British School at Rome. The aim is to examine the various and complex ways Graves--and his contemporaries--make use of historical material in their works.
Interdisciplinary approaches, or approaches other than the purely literary, are particularly, and sincerely, welcome. Some possible themes and topics for the conference include:
- the historical novel and the literary imagination
- the form of the memoir and the uses of fact
- truth and the uses of history (a focus on the classical age and Robert Graves' literary version of its history would be particularly welcome)
- Poetry and the uses of history
- Graves' sources for his historical works
- Biblical history and its reinterpretation in literature
We are very interested in widening the conference to include more papers on writers other than Graves, and are very interested in participation from the disciplines of history, anthropology, classics, languages. To propose a session, send a 250 word abstract, by January 2002, to Ian Firla (ian@deepsky.com)or John Presley (presley@oswego.edu)
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