Conference

Illustration by Howard Trafton in Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (New York: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1936).

The conference programme is now live.

Alliteration is a deceptively simple poetic feature: one of the first which students learn to identify but enduringly difficult to assign motive or meaning. This conference invites papers which reflect on alliteration's role in anglophone poetry and poetics, but also how alliterative practices are embedded in wider cultural movements and historical debates. Interdisciplinary and multilingual perspectives, as well as contributions from graduate students, are especially welcome.

Confirmed plenary speakers: Professor Joseph Phelan (De Montfort), Professor Chris Jones (Utah).

Registration is now open. Please see below for further details.

Please send enquiries to Dr Timothy Anderson at alliteration.conf@uea.ac.uk.

This event is generously funded by the British Academy and UEA.