[Gandur] Cfp: Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art and Song, Helsinki, Finland, 22nd- 24th May 2019

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CALL FOR PAPERS 


Rhyme and Rhyming in VerbalArt and Song  

Helsinki, Finland, 22nd- 24th May2019

  


During Medieval times, end rhyme became a key devicefor demarcating poetic lines in European and Arabic cultures. Besidescharacterizing a longstanding literary tradition, end rhyme and rhyme patternsbecame central structural and sonic elements in oral and oral-literarytraditions worldwide. In oral performance, rhyme stands for aesthetics,creativity and memory: memorization as well as the exploitation of workingmemory in lyrical improvisation. In verbal art and song, rhymed registerscontinue to deploy the poetic potential of language for situated communicationand meaning over changes in fashion and the coming of new musical styles. 

 

This conference is intended to promotecross-disciplinary analysis and understanding of the role and aesthetics ofrhyme in the poetics of sound and meaning. Our focus is especially upon thehistory and universality of rhyme as well as its particularities in variousperformed oral and popular registers. 

 

The keynote speakers will be:

Nigel Fabb, Professor of Literary Linguistics, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Dwight Reynolds, Professor of Arabic Language & Literature,Uni. of California, Santa Barbara

Seppo Heikkinen, Senior Lecturer inLatin, University of Helsinki, Helsinki

 

We invite scholars to engage in analytic discussions onrhyme as a poetic device and rhyming as a cognitive practice. Proposals withabstracts of 300–500 words should be sent by 15th November 2018 to: rhymeconference at gmail.com

 

We welcome proposals including, but not limited to, thefollowing themes:

 

POETICS: forms, patterns, aesthetics;language/culture-specific versus universal characteristics

TRADITIONS: cultures, genres, registers;oral/popular/sacred; the interface of oral and literary

HISTORY: historical continuums, developments andtransformations; poetic ideologies/currents

COGNITION: methods of oral composition; reception,perception, memorization

 

The conference Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art andSong will be held 22nd–24th May 2019 at the FinnishLiterature Society (SKS), Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki, Finland. https://www.finlit.fi/rhymeconference

 

The event is organized by Folklore Studies of theUniversity of Helsinki and the Academy of Finland research project Lettersand Songs: Registers of Beliefs and Expressions in the Early Modern North(2016–2020) of the Finnish Literature Society. A registration fee (approx. 60€) will cover lunches and coffee/tee. For more information, please contact rhymeconference at gmail.com