“Only Connect”

First International Conference of the Albanian Society for the Study of English

“Only connect …” the epigraph to Forster’s novel Howards End was to become his motto not only in this book but also in his fiction. Although contrasts are central to his fiction, Forster goes in search of a point of connection between different worlds, classes, cultures, values and ideas. The conference uses Forster’s epigraph as a point of departure for interesting papers that seek to explore the notion of connection in literature, culture and language. Being the first ASSE International Conference “Only connect…” is also conceived as a slogan, which aims to bring together scholars in English and American Studies from Albania and abroad. Papers are welcomed from but are not limited to: British and Commonwealth Literature American Literature Literary Theory Literary Criticism Cultural Studies Discourse Analysis Pragmatics Linguistics Semiotics Translation Studies The conference language is English. Please send your abstracts (about 250 words) for papers (20 min) as an MS word attachment to the following Email-address by 31 March 2011: onlyconnect@assenglish.org Abstracts should include: title of paper name and affiliation e-mail address section 3-5 keywords for further information, visit the conference website: [url=http://www.assenglish.org/onlyconnect/]http://www.assenglish.org/onlyconnect/[/url]