The Comparative Literature Laboratory of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki organizes on 11 - 12 October 2024 an online academic meeting on the topic: “Fantastic fiction today: Theoretical (re)approaches and comparative readings”.
Suggested topics
1.Conceptualizations and versions of the fantastic: umbrella term, mode or genre?
2.Mapping the fantastic in Greek and Spanish literature: themes, trends, affinities
3.The fantastic and the literary canon: an attraction-repulsion relationship
4.The fantastic and the political: socio-historical approach, ideological function, gender perspective, ecocriticism
5.Intermedial and interartistic approaches to the fantastic.
Authors' roundtables
In addition to the scientific sessions, the conference will feature two roundtables with prose writers from Greece and Spain, whose work or part of it of it falls within fantastic fiction.
Conference languages
Greek
Spanish
English
(Simultaneous interpretation from Spanish to Greek and vice versa will be provided throughout the Meeting.)