According to my iMac widget dictionary (reliable source? who knows...), the verb 'transgress' means: to infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior) I'm putting together an abstract for a conference on transgressions in literature, even though my initial reaction to this conference's CFP was 'none of this applies to me - I don't do any sort of transgression.' I create stories. Okay, sure, I'm trying to create them in various media, which is sort of new. But it's not infringing . Perhaps it can be seen as crossing boundaries...and I guess that's where it enters the realm of transgression. But as I brainstorm the paper, I keep thinking my colleague SH is correct: How can there possibly be transgressions in literature, in art? Isn't the entire purpose of creating something worthwhile to transgress what has come before? Note I say 'something worthwhile'. I'm a PhD stude...
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