Welcome
to the website for the The Misplaced Image, The Revealed Clue Conference sponsored by The Franke Institute for Humanities and The University of Chicago (Division of Humanities and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures).
Susan Kraut "Room With dresser and Afternoon Sunlight", oil on canvas, 28" x 42", 1980 (private collection)
Topic
In literature, there often exist details that disrupt aesthetic or logical order: an extra syllable in a line of verse, a statue that comes to life , a non sequitur in an argument
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Participants
The participants are faculty and graduate students from the University of Copenhaguen and the University of Chicago (Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, English and the Divinity School).
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