REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REPRESENTATIONS OF PANDEMIC IN LITERATURE Tanıtım: Pandeminin Edebiyattaki Temsilleri Üzerine Uluslararası Sempozyum

Year 2021, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 80 - 82, 29.10.2021

Florentine Gümüş

Abstract

Perhaps it is not a coincidence that March 27, the second day of the conference, is also the World Theatre Day since the relation between theatre and pandemics has a long history dating back to ancient times. In a paper investigating the link between the two, Ristani argues that it “goes as far back as Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex” (2020: 1), a play created under the influence of the devastating Athenian plague from 430 BCE. Moreover, Artaud famously compares the theatre with the plague in the sense that “the theatre, like the plague, is a delirium and is communicative” (1958: 27). However, the call for papers was addressed to scholars working on all literary genres, and there was an equilibrium in the distribution of papers discussing short stories, novellas, novels, poems and those having as starting point dramatic texts and theatrical performances.

Keywords

pandemic, symposium, literature

REVIEW: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REPRESENTATIONS OF PANDEMIC IN LITERATURE

Abstract

Perhaps it is not a coincidence that March 27, the second day of the conference, is also the World Theatre Day since the relation between theatre and pandemics has a long history dating back to ancient times. In a paper investigating the link between the two, Ristani argues that it “goes as far back as Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex” (2020: 1), a play created under the influence of the devastating Athenian plague from 430 BCE. Moreover, Artaud famously compares the theatre with the plague in the sense that “the theatre, like the plague, is a delirium and is communicative” (1958: 27). However, the call for papers was addressed to scholars working on all literary genres, and there was an equilibrium in the distribution of papers discussing short stories, novellas, novels, poems and those having as starting point dramatic texts and theatrical performances.

Keywords

pandemic, symposium, literature

References

• Artaud, Antonin (1958) The Theatre and Its Double, (Trans.: Richards, Mary Caroline), New York: Grove Press.
• Ristani, Maria “Theatre and Epidemics: An Age-Old Link” (June 2020) Date of Access: 11 August 2021. https://www.critical-stages.org/21/theatre-and-epidemics-an-age-old-link/
• Vangölü, Yeliz Biber & Aygan, Tuğba (2021) Representations of Pandemic in Literature. International Symposium, Erzurum: Atatürk University Publication House. Date of Access: 8 September 2021. https://ekitap.atauni.edu.tr/index.php/international-symposium-representations-of-pandemic-in-literature/