Narratives
Beyond the Centre: Marginal Characters in World Epics
One Day National Students' Seminar
As part of Rhapsody 2018: The English Department Fest
English Literary Society, Zakir Husain
Delhi College, New Delhi
28 February
2018
Call
for Papers
The
epic tradition over the world gives central importance to the hero/heroine in
the narrative. Sometimes with a dominant allegory, moral universe, spiritual
vision or poetic play, the central character(s) in a given epic dominate the
textual as well as contextual domain of the narrative. The perspectives of the
protagonist and other major characters have shaped the reception of the epics
in their respective traditions, and have also played a crucial role in
determining hermeneutical frameworks in the reading of the narratives. At a
time when the reading of literature has undergone epistemological shifts of
many kinds, it is most important to revisit the epic traditions and the individual
texts therein to assess, view and shape further epistemic interventions.
Bearing in mind the influence the epics have on the collective unconscious and
archetypical imagination of a people and place, and the shaping of the poetic
imagination of individuals and traditions, this seminar aims to encourage young
scholars to the literary, historical, philosophical and social possibilities of
reviewing epics from the perspectives of characters that find themselves away
from the centre.
We invite research papers on the topic
"Narratives Beyond the Centre: Marginal Characters in World Epics"
from undergraduate and postgraduate students from colleges and universities.
Abstracts of maximum 200 words may be emailed to elszhdcm@gmail.com latest by
25 January 2018.
Papers may be related but not restricted to any one of the following sub-themes:
Self and Agency in/and Characterisation
Polemics and Morality
Religious/Theological Contexts and Marginal
Narratives
Aesthetics and the Politics of Marginalisation
The Discourse of Victory and Marginalisation
Femininities/Masculinities in the Epics
Alternate Sexuality and Queerness in the Epics
Violence, Redemption and the Structure of
Centre/Periphery
Hero/heroine and the Ideology of Epics
Important Dates:
Last Date for Abstract Submission : 25 January 2018
Communication of Acceptance : 02 February 2018
Last Date for Full Paper Submission : 17 February
2018
Dr. Mohammed Afzal
Convenor, English Literary Society
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Zakir Husain Delhi College (M), New Delhi
elszhdcm@gmail.com