Saturday 16 to Monday 18 July 2011 at Kobe, Japan
with the support of The Friends of Coleridge
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“Coleridge and the Orient” will be a three-day international conference focusing on Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Romantic literature, and the Orient.
In the context of post-Saidian criticism, the conference aims to explore
the large, untapped territory of Asia, the East, and the Orient in the
texts of Romantic literature. The Romantic imagination is enhanced, and
yet sometimes threatened by the presence of the Orient. It reflects Westerners'
ambivalent concerns and cross-cultural negotiations with the East, and
is at times complicated by colonial anxiety and imperial guilt.
Subjects to discuss will range widely to include Coleridge, Romantic literature
and Romantic writers, travel writings, a reconsideration of Romanticism
and Orientalism, the reception of Coleridge in the Orient – and much more.
[All papers will be in English.]
For enquiries, please contact Kaz Oishi at
oishi
@u-air.ac.jp
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