The Biennial Connotations Symposia
The 12th International Connotations Symposium "Poetry in Fiction" will take place in July/August 2013. Further information on this conference (or earlier symposia)can be found on its webpage: "Poetry in Fiction: Poetic Insertions, Allusions, and Rhythms in Narrative Texts".
Subjects of earlier symposia sponsored by Connotations were
- "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"
Revised versions of conference papers are published in Connotations.