Call for Papers. ICLA Congress Vienna July 2016/International Comparative Literature Association Congress. Workshop n°17333 : Media, mediation, fiction. Medium as a language ?

ICLA Congress Vienna July 2016/International Comparative Literature Association Congress. Workshop n°17333 : Media, mediation, fiction. Medium as a language ? Fiction is mediated by different media that comparative literature may study. But the comparison has namely to explore the problematic relationship between fiction and its media ; this relationship appears to be involved by its own creation’s and reception’s processes. Above all, the crucial point is that fiction try not only to make believe but to make forget its media. Such a apparent disappearence of media is perhaps even the sine qua non condition for the esthetic effect of the fictionnal Illusion. It follows, therefore, that the concept of Immersion analysed by theoricians of fiction could be related with the immediacy explored by the Media Studies, from Digital Studies to Medienwissenschaften. But this illusion itself has to be studied , such a study is an emergency when at the same time « dematerialisation » is the doxa : the digital production is a material one, although in a different way than the printed one for example. Furthermore, fiction highlights many media in its own subjects. What is the reason of such a display ? Is it a sort of « mise en abyme » ? Could it makes forget the medium used by the fiction itself, whatever it is, writing, speak, painting or film ? What are the fictions of the medium, for instance, at first, the immediacy ? How does fiction work when art, for example the Avant-garde, put the emphasis on the medium ? Is it an ethical question ? This workshop finally intends to highlight the mediation, or the mediality, implied by fiction. There is not only a sort of indifference for the medium, but a « différance », in the sens of Derrida, of the medium itself : the medium is an intermediary but it defers the contact ; it homogenizes but it makes different too. Do traditional comparisons (literary gender, text/image, arts/mainstream production...) transform themselves due to such an issue ? Do the relationship with media vary in the different linguistic and cultural area ? Isabelle Krzywkowski (Professeur de Littérature comparée, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3) Benoît Tane (Maître de conférences en Littérature comparée, Université de Toulouse JeanJaurès, Equipe LLA-CREATIS) Proposals could be written in English, German, or French Deadline 31/08/2015 Submission and Registration On the International Comparative Literature Association Congress website http://icla2016.univie.ac.at/abstract-submission/ Workshop n°17333 The ICLA 2016 cannot cover any travelling and accommodation costs. Neither is it possible to waive conference fees