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KYKNOS is the Swansea and Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World.
Its mission is
- To stimulate, co-ordinate and promote research on the narrative literatures of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East, through collaborative work, conferences and publications
- To form the centre of national and international networks of scholars working in this field
- To raise the profile of the subject area and to attract top-quality research students to its constituent universities
- To secure high-level funding for research projects
The Erotics of Narrative
A KYKNOS colloquium at the Gregynog Conference Centre, 15th - 17th July 2009
Theme
Desire, anticipation, pleasure, and satisfaction are all concepts which apply to hearing, reading, and giving narratives, as well as to love and sex. In some cases, horror, boredom, pain, and frustration are involved instead, or even as well. When a narrative concerns love and/or sex, then there is the possibility of dynamic interplay between the contents of the narrative and its narration, and between the provocations and reactions of narrators and their narratees.
New Taught MA in Ancient Narrative Literature
A new MA in Ancient Narrative Literature launches this year at Swansea University and University of Wales Lampeter
Follow the links:
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Media,24492,en.pdf
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/classics/postgrad_modules/ma_ancientnarrative.html
