Script and Description is a collaborative project that addresses the fundamental nature of description in literary studies. While much theoretical attention has been concentrated on the most material and the most abstract aspects of the process of interpretation—for instance in several recent books and conferences on different dimensions of "writing" and "reading"—the interval between script and description remains little explored. We will focus on script and description both in themselves, as distinct phenomena presenting their own challenges to the observer and participant, and as mutually informing elements of interpretation, literary and otherwise.

About the Chairs

Gordon Brotherston is professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Roland Greene is head of the DLCL and professor of English and comparative literature.

Contact

For more information please contact Gordon Brotherston.

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