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>From: Sura Rath <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Game, Play, Literature (3/20/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)
>
>Session Title: Game, Play, Literature
>Topic: Language of Play/Play of Language
>Chair/Moderator: Sura P. Rath
> Central Washington University
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>Mailing Address: The William O. Douglas Honors College,
> 400 E. University Way,
> Ellensburg, WA 98926-7521
> Phone:
> 509.963.1440 fax: 509.963.1206
>
>Since the late 1960's, when Jacques Derrida proposed the free-play of
>language as the cornerstone of deconstruction, the concept of play has
>gained growing critical attention. Together with Johan Huizinga's homo
>ludens: a study of the play elements in culture (1955) and Mikhail
>Bakhtin's reformulation of the cultural value of carnivals,
>Derrida's deconstruction has located in game-play a comprehensive
>metaphor for both the content and method of construction of textual
>meanings. This session, framed in its title by "language" at its
>beginning and end and textured by mirror images of repetitive play in
>the center, will provide a forum for discussions on how high brow theory
>playfully deconstructs itself in its representations of reality and
>virtuality even as carnivalesque celebration of ritualized laughter
>subverts rigid social hierarchies of feudalism. It will be formatted as
>a round-table panel discussion with 6-7 participants, each with a
>5-minute opening remark, followed by audience participation.
>
>Propossals of 150 words are due by March 20.
>
>
>
>Sura P. Rath, Director
>The William O. Douglas Honors College
>Central Washington University
>Language & Literature Building, #103B
>400 East University Way
>Ellensburg, WA 98926-7521
>Phone: 509-963-1440
>Fax: 509-963-1206
>Email: [log in to unmask]
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