Literature and Urban Space: LIT CRI’13 Conference Proceedings, November 18-20, 2013, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

Abstract

Literature and Urban space: LIT CRI’13 Literary criticism conference

Literature today, survives in a rich, wide and chaotic urban life in relation with increasing communication utilities, new digital channels, increased creative writing efforts, intensive translation activities and effects of mass media. The changing urban characteristics of the earth play an important role in the transformation of li tera ture, too. Which urban aspects 21th century literature contains, which characteristics in terms of spatial narration are already obvious and which surprises are hiding inside are the main questions to be discussed. LIT CRI '13 sets off for raising questions as well as searching for new answers on the relation of city and fiction. The conference will tackle reciprocal effects between architecture and fiction, whether they emerge in literary forms related to visual narratives and urban culture. LIT CRI '13 will be held on Nov 18-20, 2013 by DAKAM in the hostage ofMSFAU. / Efe Duyan