Contributions to
special
issues of journals and to books
(arranged in the chronological order of the deadlines for proposals)
Representations of the
intellectual in Ireland
A special issue of Études
Irlandaises, Autumn 2009
New extended deadline: 15
June 2009
(closed)
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 The editorial board of Études
irlandaises, a peer-reviewed journal, is seeking contributions
for a special issue on "representations of the intellectual in
Ireland", co-edited by Pr. Carle Bonafous-Murat and Pr. Maurice
Goldring, to be published next Fall.
Despite Liam O'Dowd's
ground-breaking study, On
Intellectuals and Intellectual Life in Ireland: International,
Comparative and Historical Context (1996), intellectuals are
still considered by many to be absent figures from public debate or
recent academic research. Some even argue that the "intellectuel" is a
sociological category more or less specific to France, and that its
transposition into the field of Irish studies raises issues which have
to be addressed seriously, including the vexed question of how to
translate the word properly.
Accordingly, one might
begin to wonder if the supposed invisibility of intellectuals in
Ireland is not yet another example of the "absence theory" discussed by
Stephan Collini in his 2006 book, Absent
Minds -- Intellectuals in Britain, about the place of
intellectuals in the English-speaking world as compared with their role
in the rest of Europe.
However, when dealing
more specifically with Ireland, where the divide between the private
and the public spheres does not seem as marked as in many other
European societies, one might also wish to discuss the appositeness of
a notion such as that of the intellectual. Irish writers, for instance,
do not always occupy that position of exteriority which seems to
characterize European intellectuals at large, and are more easily
regarded as mediators of public opinion. In that respect, some of the
most prominent figures of the Irish literary world since the 18th
century might be used as exemplary cases reflecting some of the
assumptions that this issue of Etudes irlandaises wishes to examine --
Swift and his alleged role as mouthpiece of the Irish people in The Drapier’s Letters, or Yeats
orchestrating a press campaign of great magnitude during the Hugh Lane
affair. More recently, Seamus Heaney’s ambivalent response to those
who, in the 1970s, wanted him to take sides unquestioningly, might be
reevaluated through the prism of irony, an oft-used weapon of
intellectuals under duress.
In France, as elsewhere
in Europe, it has become fashionable to herald the death, or the
decline, of the intellectual. In Ireland instead, the intellectual does
not seem to have a beginning and an end -- rather he reappears at
regular intervals, like a Phoenix rising from its ashes in times of
crisis. The specific role played by intellectuals in the building of
the Nation-state, that is in the 1910s and 1920s, is a case in point
here. However, such periodisation may sometimes lead to clear-cut
oppositions, which some of the essays in this issue might attempt to
call into question: seen in this light, the often-stressed intellectual
sterility of the de Valera years (1930-1960), only illuminated by
isolated acts of resistance such as Seán Ó
Faoláin’s launching of The Bell, might provide a specific field
of research and discussion.
These attempts at
rethinking historical oppositions should not, however, preclude more
general essays about the (re)definition of the figure of the
intellectual in Ireland. For instance, in the wake of Jeanyves
Guérin’s recently published book on Fiction et engagement politique -- la
représentation du parti et du militant dans le roman et le
théâtre au XXe siècle (2008), adjacent
notions, such as those of the committed artist or the militant, and
more ideologically-charged concepts (e.g. the intelligentsia) might be
explored in a specifically Irish context. One might also wish to trace
the influence on major literary writers of the 20th century of some
movements of ideas which have so far attracted little scholarly
attention -- for instance the subdued treatment of freethinking and
free thought in the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. This would
entail the necessity to delineate as accurately as possible the
frontier between intellectual life and religious thought in Ireland.
If, as Bourdieu argued, the sphere of the intellectual is by definition
self-contained and autonomous from the religious sphere, to what extent
is this opposition transferable to Ireland?
Topics may include but are not limited to:
- intellectuals and their
role in times of historical crisis;
- intellectuals and nationalism in Ireland;
- the various usages, including possible translations, of the word in
French, English or Irish;
- the function of Irish periodicals in the definition and
representation of the intellectual;
- strategies of commitment or disengagement on the part of artists and
writers;
- the degree of autonomy of the intellectual sphere in relation to the
religious sphere;
Submissions, not
exceeding 7000 words (including footnotes and bibliography) must be
sent by 31 May 2009 to:
Professor Carle Bonafous-Murat, Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris 3, Institut du Monde Anglophone:
<carle.bonafous-murat@paris3.fr>
For more information on style-sheet requirements: http://etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com
(posted 17 Feb '09, updated
20 May '09)
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Katherine Mansfield and
Continental Europe
Inaugural issue of Katherine Mansfield Studies
Deadline for proposals: 1
June 2009
(closed)
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 Following on from
the
success of the international conference held on Mansfield in
2008, based on the centenary of Katherine Mansfield's arrival in
London, the first issue of the peer-reviewed journal of the recently
created Katherine Mansfield Society, Katherine
Mansfield Studies, is now calling for submissions for its
special issue 'Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe'.
Submissions are sought on the following:
- On the theme of the
special issue 'Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe'
- Creative pieces -- poetry and prose on Katherine Mansfield
- Book reviews of recently published books on Katherine Mansfield.
Further details:
Mansfield travelled
extensively in continental Europe during her lifetime. Nearly four
years of her short adult life were spent there -- in Germany, France,
Italy, Switzerland and Belgium. Many of her stories were written
abroad, many have continental themes and/or European settings. As a
writer, she has also received huge critical acclaim in many European
countries – far more than in her homeland of New Zealand or her adopted
adult homeland, England.
The deadline for 5000 word submissions is 1 June 2009.
For any queries please
contact:
- the Journal's Editor, Dr
Delia da Sousa Correa <d.dasousa@open.ac.uk>
- and the special issue co-editor, Dr Gerri Kimber
<gerri@thekimbers.co.uk>.
In addition, further submissions for the first issue of the journal are
being sought:
-
Pieces of creative writing on the theme of Katherine Mansfield --
poetry, short stories, etc: Please send submissions, including name,
full affiliation and email
address, for consideration to the Journal Editor:
<d.dasousa@open.ac.uk>.
- Book reviews on recent
publications relating to Katherine Mansfield: Please send review
submissions (no more than 500 words) by 1 June 2009
to the Journal Reviews Editors:
- Dr
Kathryn Simpson <k.l.simpson@bham.ac.uk>
- and Dr Melinda Harvey
<melinda.harvey@anu.edu.au>.
Further information, as well as a a style guide for submissions, is
available on the journal's website:
http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/the-katherine-mansfield-studies-journal/
(posted 13 Apr '09)
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Popular
Literature in Translation
Volume 21 of Przekładaniec
Deadline for proposals: 30
June 2009
(closed)
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The
editors of Przekładaniec,
a refereed journal of literary translation published in Kraków,
Poland, under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies
and Cultural Communication, invite submissions for the following themed
issue:
Popular
Literature in Translation (volume 21)
In particular: popular
literature in translaion studies; 'low-brow' literature as a genre and
its implications for the practice of translation; teaching pop lit
translation; the translation of popular literature and its influence on
canon formation; pop bestsellers and translation; translation of pop
literature and book market/readership; the translator of popular
literature; the 'book of the film' type of literature in translation;
the translation of video games; intersemiotic translation embracing
literature, film and electronic media.
Contributions of up
to
4500-5000 in English, German, French, Italian and Polish should be
emailed as word attachments to <aromkow@hotmail.com>.
The
deadline is June 30, 2009.
The
accepted articles will be published in Polish. For the contents of
back issues, see the journal website:
http://www2.uj.edu.pl/katedraunesco/przekladaniec
(posted 29 Jan '09, updated
3 Feb '09)
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Voice of the Marginalised
in English Literature
August 2009 issue of Impressions : A
Bi-Annual Journal of English Studies
Deadline for proposals: 30
June 2009
(closed)
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 Impressions strives to present work of high
quality in English Literature, linguistics and cultural studies from
the multi disciplinary and multi cultural perspective. The aim of the
journal is to publish substantial scholarly and critical interventions
on emerging trends in literature in English and works in translation.
Our next issue (August 2009) will focus on "Voice of the Marginalised
in English Literature".
We are always keen to
receive submissions from scholars in the form of research papers,
articles, poems, short stories, and creative non-fiction. Submissions
are accepted and read year-round. Manuscripts should be of unpublished
work and not have been submitted elsewhere for publication. Manuscripts
should be
·
Up to ten double spaced pages (A-4 size).
· Type written
· Having a brief profile of the author with phone number. The
articles/papers must conform to the latest MLA Handbook in all respects.
Submissions can be sent
by e-mail: <impressionsonline@gmail.com>. They should be
accompanied by an indication of format in which the file is created
i.e. MS Word, Text File, etc. Authors may note that unaccepted material
will not be returned.
All editorial and business correspondence should be addressed to either
of the Editors/Publishers.
- Malti Agarwal, 18, Murari
Puram, Garh Road, Meerut, 250002(UP), India M-09412628158
- Abha Shukla Kaushik, 10-C, Royal, Shipra Suncity, Indrapuram,
Ghaziabad, 201014 (UP) India M-09818612421
Visit us at http://impressions.50webs.org
(posted 10 Mar '09)
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Experiments in/of Realism
Synthesis: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Culture, Volume 3
Deadline for proposals: 20
July 2009
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Issue
Editors: Anna
Despotopoulou and Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou.
If in the nineteenth
century Realism began as a movement initiating a progressive and
drastic shift away from Romanticism, aiming to discover radical ways of
linking the imaginative with the real, in the twentieth century,
conversely, Realism was vilified, deemed unashamedly conservative and
passé; its ideology was viewed as flawed and its experiments
were deliberately forgotten or undervalued. The more reality was
conceived as an ideological artifact, the more realism was reduced to a
mere oxymoron, a term that defies itself, a conceptual impasse. In the
years of high postmodernism, Realism has been unfairly used, in the
words of Bruce Robbins, as a "scapegoat term that a given author, text,
period, or genre can be shown to rise sophisticatedly and
self-consciously above." And yet Realism strikes back: its
self-reflexive moments have been recently reread as ambitious studies
of the act of representation, and its linear plots, supposedly
straightforward characters, and omniscient narrators destabilized and
rescued from facile and scornful labeling, while the tension between
literality and fictionality, which Realism allegedly sought to conceal,
has been brought to the forefront. More surprisingly even, new
poststructuralist approaches have gone as far as unearthing and
highlighting the “proto-postmodern” elements of nineteenth-century
realistic texts. Rather than seen as the unfortunate moment in the
history of narrative, sandwiched between Romanticism and Modernism,
Realism becomes the focus of attention, and its efforts, achievements,
and conscious limitations are reexamined on theoretic, thematic, and
stylistic levels.
In line with current
attempts to complicate and expand our understanding of Realism, in
terms of its ideology and cultural and formal pursuits, the third issue
of Synthesis will participate in the debate aimed at exploring the
multiformity of the term and reformulating our thinking as regards its
endeavours. Our purpose is to examine Realism as an inconclusive,
open-ended term, involved in a dialectic relationship with the "-isms"
that precede it and those that follow it. In what ways does realism
fight against its reduction to a literary technique that indulges in a
naïvely "objective" reproduction of material reality? And by what
means does it resist an uncritical endorsement of socio-cultural
hegemonic practices? Can Realism be re-viewed as the avant-garde
gesture that it was initially perceived as? And in this respect, is it,
perhaps, time to rethink the chronological and formal boundaries of
Realism, which until now conveniently served to include or exclude
works from its canon? How is the Realist agenda appropriated and used
to ends that operate against mimesis? Can the study of Realism, which
is at work across disciplines and in all types of narratives, offer new
possibilities of approaching all kinds of texts? And what, in that
case, would the limitations of realism be?
We invite contributions which engage critically with Realist texts and
participate in current theoretical debates which aim at re-evaluating
Realism. Papers may address topics such as:
• The
illusionistic nature of Realistic representation
• Formal experimentations of Realism
• The reactionary/progressive politics of Realism
• Gender and/or class construction in Realism
• Science, technology, and Realism
• Art, the visual, and the invisible in Realism
• Ethics and morality in Realist texts
• Transition, flux, alienation in Realism
• Space and mobility in Realist texts
• Reconfigurations of the Real in Realism
• Negotiating Realism through contemporary film
• Contemporary Realisms in late twentieth-century
fiction
Detailed proposals
(800-1000 words) for (6-7000 word) articles as well as any inquiries
regarding this issue should be sent by email to both Issue Editors:
Anna Despotopoulou <adespoto@enl.uoa.gr> and Katerina
Kitsi-Mitakou <katkit@enl.auth.gr>. Please send a short bio
together with your proposal.
Deadlines:
| 20 July 2009 |
submission of
abstracts |
| 20 September 2009 |
notification of
acceptance |
| 30 March 2010 |
submission of
articles |
Website of Synthesis: http://www.enl.uoa.gr/synthesis
(posted 14 Apr '09)
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The Booker Prize and India
Deadline for propoals: 31
August 2009
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A full-length novel
written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or
Zimbabwe is eligible for the Booker Prize. The reputation of the prize
is sure to transform the fortunes of the author who receives it. This
prestigious prize has been won by four Indians - Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, 1981),
Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things,
1997), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance
of Loss, 2006) and Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008). With the
award of this prize to Indians, Indian Writing in English (IWE) has
become a force to be reckoned with. The present anthology of critical
essays proposes to analyse the above Booker-winning novels
and the general subject of the Booker and India.The title of the
anthology will be The Booker Prize
and India.
Previously unpublished
research papers are invited from scholars. The following will be
considered as falling within the scope of this project::
- papers on any of the four
novels
- comparative studies involving these novels with the other works by
their authors or works by other IWE writers
- papers on other IWE works that were longlisted or
shortlisted for the Booker
- general studies on the subject of "the Booker and India"
Papers should be marked
by sharp critical acumen and analyze the novels in the light of
contemporary critical thought.
The deadline for the submission of papers is August 31, 2009.
Papers may be sent to:
Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal,
Senior Lecturer in English
Feroze Gandhi College
Rae Bareli (U.P.)
India
at the following email: <nilanshu1973@yahoo.com>.
(posted 14 Feb '09)
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Middle-earth and Beyond:
Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
Deadline for proposals: 15
September 2009
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The Department of English
Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic
University in Slovakia, is issuing a call for papers for a proposed
volume of scholarly essays on J.R.R.Tolkien’s fictional works for a
British publisher.
Papers should address any
aspect of his works, but the editors are especially interested in
papers which make connections among disciplines, demonstrating the
richness of his art as well as its continuing widespread appeal.
Papers should be between
5 to 10 thousand words, note key words, and include a 250 word
abstract.
- The deadline for
submission of papers is 15 September 2009.
- Decisions will be announced by 1 November 2009.
Papers should be submitted to the editors:
- Prof. Kathleen Dubs
<kedubs@axelero.hu>
- Dr. Janka Kaščáková <kascakova@ff.ku.sk>.
(posted 13 Mar '09)
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Poe's Modernity and
Postmodernity
Special issue of the
journal Meridian
critic (The Annals of Stefan
cel Mare University of Suceava, Literature Series)
Deadline for submission:
15 September 2009
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In celebration of Edgar
Allan Poe' bicentennial year, the academic journal Meridian critic
prepares a special section for its second 2009 issue: Poe's Modernity
and Postmodernity. We invite submission of papers exploring any aspect
that may throw new light on Poe's stature and legitimacy as a cultural
myth, on the indebtedness of Western literature, art, and culture to
his genius, or on his reception in the various European and
transatlantic literary and critical traditions.
Some of the topics that might be taken into consideration are:
•
Poe and the dawns of the modernist sensibility;
• Poe and the European avant-garde;
• The inventor of genres and the manipulator of
conventions;
• The cryptographic imagination;
• Horror and humour;
• The fascination of the borderline -- the rational
and irrational in Poe's art;
• The beautiful and the sublime -- Poe’s aesthetic
and textual philosophy;
• Poe's literary and critical histrionics
--(self-)parody, irony, satire, banter, hoax; dissimulation,
mystification, the mask and the double as motifs and textual/narrative
strategies;
• Deconstructive and deconstructed Poe -- his
centrality in poststructuralist debates on textuality and meaning;
• Psychoanalytic Poe -- the unconscious in/of the
text;
• (De)constructions of masculinity and femininity in
Poe's work;
• Poe between the canon and popular culture;
• Poe's afterlife in postmodern popular culture.
Maximum length: 30,000 characters.
Please send your contributions in electronic form (Word document) to:
<corneliamacsiniuc@yahoo.com>.
(posted 26 May '09)
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The Popular in Global Times
A special issue of Culture, Language and Representation
Journal
Deadline for submissions:
15 October 2009
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CLR Journal (Culture, Language and
Representation), ISSN: 1697-7750, seeks contributions for its
forthcoming volume to be published, May 2010, on the topic of: The
Popular in Global Times.
Articles are welcomed
that engage with the role of popular culture and the politics of
everyday life in shaping new and/or alternative life-styles and
cultural spaces in the age of globalization.
Possible suggested topics would include, but are by no means reduced
to:
-
The phenomenon of narrativization as a powerful device in the
establishing and development of the popular.
- Popular strategies of contention, appropriation and
subversion regarding globalization.
- The current status of popular culture in relation
to emerging digital cultures.
- The popular and youth cultures.
- The popular in the Media, Arts, education,
literature, film, linguistics.
Both theoretical and case
studies that explore the interface of popular culture and globalization
are welcomed.
Please, send two hard copies and a Word document of your contribution
to:
Jose R. Prado (editor)
Dept. Estudis Anglesos
Campus Riu Sec
12071 Castellon
Spain
Articles should not exceed 6000 words; book reviews, 600-1200 words.
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2009.
For any enquires
regarding this Call for Papers, or related issues about the Journal, you may contact the
Editors at
<prado@ang.uji.es> or access the Journal webpage at http://www.clr.uji.es
CLR is currently indexed in ISOC, Latindex, MLA, ABELL.
(posted 29 Apr '09)
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(Re)Defining Contemporary
British Poetry
A special issue of Revista
Canaria de
Estudios Ingleses (RCEI)
Deadline for proposals: 30 October 2009
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The
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses ( RCEI) is now accepting original
submissions of essays for publication in the 2010 April issue. The
deadline is 30th October 2009.
Please see http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing/Submissions.html
for submission.
As guest editor of this
RCEI special issue on "(Re)Defining Contemporary British Poetry", I
would welcome contributions from scholars around the world, and any
others who have a stake in the understanding of this field.
For more information please contact María del Pino Montesdeoca:
<mapimont@ull.es>.
Although submissions are not restricted to the proposals below, some
suggested issues are the following:
- Should poets only be
concerned with poetry when writing today?
- To whom do poets write nowadays?
- Is there any current mainstream of contemporary British Poetry?
- The Role of Humour in British Poetry Today.
- The impact of the new technologies in the writing/reading of present
British Poetry.
- How indebted to the past is the contemporary British poet? Why?
- Are we witnessing any special turn in British poetry nowadays?
Completed papers should be no more than 7,000 words.
The Revista Canaria de
Estudios Ingleses is a peer-reviewed academic journal financially
supported by the University of La Laguna (Spain) focusing on English
studies.
(posted 13 Mar '09)
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Children
of Midnight: Indian English Novelists of 1981 and After
Deadline for proposals: 31
October 2009
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The publication of Rushdie's Midnight's
Children in 1981 assertively changed the fate of Indian English
fiction. It has now become a force to count with. New explorations in
the narrative technique in addition to a great variety of themes have
made it sure that this creativity has left its indelible impression on
the world literary map. The novelists since Midnight's Children have struck
diverse notes in their novels. There is a greater deciphering of the
individual’s alienated soul in the world. Marooned
colonized/feminine/weak/Dalit/queer individual struggling against the
colonial/patriarchal/powerful/Brahmin/white/orthodox market forces is
the favourite subject of the fiction-writers. The masters of Post-1981
Indian English fiction have exerted themselves to present the inner
emotional ripples of their characters. It is not that the earlier
novelists' voice was mute to the interior struggles of the individual.
Nevertheless, contemporary voices are more vocal in expressing the
inner torments of the marginalized and their murmurings are taken more
seriously the world over. The novel has moved from homogeneity of
themes and techniques to heterogeneity of subjects and methodology.
There is an evolution from the simple to the complex.
The present anthology of
critical research papers which will be entitled Children of Midnight: Indian English
Novelists of 1981 and After seeks to explore the works of major
Indian English fiction writers published since 1981. Previously
unpublished research papers on the subject are invited. Please follow
the latest edition of the MLA stylesheet for citation purposes, with
references given in parenthetical form in the text and a Works cited at
the end. Papers should be marked by a sharp critical acumen and analyze
the novels in the light of contemporary critical thought.
Papers together with a
brief bioprofile should be sent to:
- Dr. Nilanshu Kumar
Agarwal, Feroze Gandhi College Rae Bareli U.P., India
<nilanshu1973@yahoo.com>
- and/or to Dr. Ludmila Volna, Charles University Prague, Czech
Republic <ludmila.volna@free.fr>.
before 31 October 2009.
(posted 8 Apr '09)
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Neo-Victorian Families:
Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics
Deadline for proposals: 31
October 2009
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We invite contributions
on neo-Victorian representations of the nineteenth-century family for
the second volume in a newly commissioned 6-volume series on
Neo-Victorian Studies, to be published by Rodopi in early 2011.
Nineteenth-century nuclear and extended families acted as the enabling
fulcrum and dissemination point of capitalist values, imperial ideals,
attitudes towards class and race, and sexual and gender politics,
inculcating and reproducing cultural ideologies. Hence, many
neo-Victorian writers and filmmakers position the family as central to
their critical revisions of the period and its socio-political legacies
in the present-day. This volume aims to interrogate neo-Victorian
strategic interventions in the nineteenth-century discourse of family
and how these implicitly or explicitly engage with latter-day issues,
e.g. with regards to family breakdown, child abuse, divorce law and so
forth. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- the family at home and
abroad
- parent-child and sibling relations
- ideal communities: alternative, adoptive, self-chosen, and Œimproper‚
families
- family traumas: divorce, sickness, death, emigration, domestic
violence, and/or sexual abuse
- the familial neo-Victorian Gothic
- family politics of ethnicity, race, and eugenics
- mothering: good/bad mothers, single/deserted mothers, working mothers
- crime and familicide: infanticide, stolen children, baby-farming,
child criminals/murderers
- genealogy, inheritance, and family memory
- family, nation and empire
- 19th-century legacies in 20th/21st-century social policy and family
law
Please send 300 word proposals for 8,000-10,000 word chapters by 31st
October 2009 to:
- the series editors Dr
Marie-Luise Kohlke at <m.l.kohlke@swansea.ac.uk>
- and Prof Christian Gutleben at <Christian.GUTLEBEN@unice.fr>
Completed chapters will be due by 30 June 2010.
(posted 23 Jun '09)
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European
Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 15
Matter and Material Culture
Deadline for proposals: 13
November 2009
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Guest Editors: Maurizio Calbi & Marilena Parlati.
Cultural materialism has
been adding
much to our knowledge and understanding of the ways in which culture is
informed by and conformed to and with matter, and so have the numerous
analyses and histories of material culture from fields as varied as
sociology, anthropology, museum studies, consumer studies, and so
forth.
On a different plane,
matter has
recently been the focus, among others, of Bill Brown's 'thing theory',
according to which 'things' come into being when and where ordinary,
narrative, or aesthetic objects stop functioning properly and thus
become visible and obtrusive. Meanwhile, considerations of material and
corporeal remainders of different kinds, from a variety of theoretical
perspectives, have also emerged into the cultural landscape of our late
modernity.
We encourage
contributions from
scholars working in this wide arena of cultural, literary and
scientific discourses, and who are engaging with, developing, or, at
times, challenging a 'material turn' or 'turn to matter' in their
various fields of research. We invite papers that explore the
discursive construction of matter, the circulation of objects and the
'social life' of things (cf. Appadurai), but also, from a different
angle, things and the Thing(s) which may help us read matter beyond the
paradigms of empiricism. We are interested in re-opening the question
of the ‘matter’ of materialism.
The fertile interplay and
mutual
interpellation between materiality as ineradicable opacity and the
'spectral dimension' which can be seen (most notably in Derrida) as
affecting matter could, in our view, be a fruitful site for a cultural
debate open to specialists in the study of Anglophone literature,
language, media and culture. Contributions are invited on a range of
topics concerning matter and material culture, which might include, but
are not restricted to:
• the
'materiality' of material culture
• the materialism of consumer culture
• systems, collections, and the display of material
culture
• the poetics of the material fragment
• thing theory and its applications/applicability
• transience and durability
• waste/land(s), garbage, residues
• ecocriticism
• ghostly matters/bodies that matter
• objects and abjection
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words)
for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all inquiries regarding
this issue, should be sent to both guest editors: Maurizio Calbi at
<mcalbi@unisa.it> and Marilena Parlati at
<m.parlati@unical.it>.
The deadline for proposals is 13 November 2009, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2010. The issue will appear in 2011.
(posted 4 Apr '09)
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European Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 15
Medievalism
Deadline for proposals: 13
November 2009
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Guest Editors: Andrew James Johnson & Ute Berns.
Ever since the Middle
Ages was invented in the Renaissance it has served specific cultural
purposes, most importantly: to function as the temporal Other against
which Modernity could define itself. All too often, the Middle Ages was
simply cast as the opposite of everything that Modernity liked about
itself – or else: disliked about itself. The alterity of the Middle
Ages was thus erased in favour of a simplistic binary dependent on the
idea of a revolutionary break that divided the Renaissance, and even
more so Modernity, from its medieval Other. Locked in an ineluctable
space of temporal Otherness the Middle Ages was declared to be
irrelevant to the concerns of the modern world. Unfortunately,
medievalists frequently colluded in this process of marginalisation,
claiming for their period an alterity so complete as to preclude
dialogue and exchange.
Both medievalists and
non-medievalists have increasingly come to realise how detrimental this
approach is not only to an understanding of the Middle Ages but also to
that of Modernity. Thus they have begun to embark on a variety of
different projects. For instance, they turn their attention to the
cultural mechanisms that have helped to establish the binary between
the medieval and the modern. They seek to untangle the dense jungle of
concepts of the medieval -- Umberto Eco identifies ten different
versions of the Middle Ages -- and thus to learn more about Modernity’s
desire for a radical construct of a different past. Others trace the
forms in which the Middle Ages has been used to resist this simple
binary and is employed for the purpose of establishing a more complex
relationship to the past. In the course of investigations such as
these, scholars devote a lot of energy to describing and analysing the
cultural forms and political uses that the engagement with the Middle
Ages has assumed over the last five centuries or so. Topics range from
Wagnerian opera to Fantasy literature, from the Gothic novel to
computer games, and from historical romance to real-life enactments of
'medieval' life and history. The subject this line of scholarship
investigates is now generally known under the term of ‘medievalism’ and
generates an ever-increasing field of research.
This issue of the European Journal of English Studies invites
medievalists and non-medievalists alike to submit papers concerning all
aspects of constructions of the medieval in Anglophone discourses and
cultures.
Detailed proposals
(500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both guest editors:
Andrew James Johnson at <ajjohnst@zedat.fu-berlin.de> and Ute
Berns at <Ute.Berns@anglistik.uni-giessen.de>.
The deadline for proposals is 13 November 2009, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2010. The issue will appear in 2011.
(posted 4 Apr '09)
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European
Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 15
The Esoteric in
Post/Modernism
Deadline for proposals: 13
November 2009
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Guest Editors: Pia Brînzeu & György E.
Szönyi.
Although the rise of
Modernism and the avantgarde proclaimed a break with the past, in many
decisive aspects the past continued to inscribe itself in the heart of
what at the same time seemed so new and unprecedented. One of the
powerful resources present behind and within many modernist gestures
was what nowadays is called 'the Western esoteric tradition(s)',
some¬times also conceived of as 'the occult'. Suffice it to mention
its more or less acknowledged traces in the hermetic art of such
leading Modernists as Marcel Duchamp and Wassily Kandinsky, the
automatic writing of the Surrealists, and the poetics and poetry of W.
B. Yeats (in collaboration with Georgie Hyde-Lees), Ezra Pound and T.
S. Eliot.
While this interest in
the esoteric/occult reached back to Hellenistic Antiquity and to the
magi of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, so central to
Modernity, has in truth always been accompanied by a counterculture
which, in different periods with different motivations, has nurtured a
holistic search for the unification of the human, the natural and the
divine. Thus, as the upsurge in Spiritualism in Anglo-American culture
towards the end of the nineteenth century drew on 'the Ancient
Theology' and on Eastern mysticism imported via the cultural
transmitters of the Victorian Empire, parallel with this the new
physical sciences -- electricity, magnetism, radioactivity -- and the
emerging social sciences such as anthropology (Edward B. Tylor, Sir
George Frazer) and psychology (William James, William McDougall, Carl
Jung) provided discursive and conceptual resources for a symbiosis of a
craving for belief and a desire for scientific verification. This was
most notably the case with the Society for Psychical Research, founded
in London in 1882 but soon to become an international network of
scientists, philosophers, psychologists and artists. Recent research by
Axel Owen and Marina Warner has shown how intricately both the
fascination with the 'primitive' and 'exotic' and this high-minded
scholarship connected with popular trends in late Victorian culture,
from mass spiritist séances and 'freak shows' to the mystical
and sensationalist aspects of new media of photography and the cinema.
The lure of the
esoteric/occult has remained alive through the twentieth and into the
twenty-first century and has gained new impetus from the 'new
Traditionalism' (René Guénon, Julius Evola) and the New
Age movement of the 1970s, since when it has continued to increase. As
Marina Warner remarks: 'The return of religious thinking -- and intense
conflict -- has been one of the strongest surprises of the twenty-first
century, and it has brought with it a return to supernatural writings.'
It seems that a number of British artists have been affected by
resurgent interest in the esoteric/occult, or at least have been
playing with the uncanny features of this trend. For example, the
novels of Malcolm Lowry, John Fowles, Peter Ackroyd, and Marina Warner
herself; the paintings and films of Kenneth Anger and Derek Jarman; and
a range of phenomena in popular culture: apocalyptic films, vampire
narratives, ghost romances and tales of voodoo in various media, occult
computer games, esoteric therapeutics, sexual magic, and so on.
This issue of the
European Journal of English Studies is dedicated to an
examination of
the relations between Western esoteric traditions and cultural
innovations at the two last fins-de-siècles, between occult
phenomena regarded as timeless and the drives of modernism and
postmodernism. Contributions are welcome in relation to any aspect of
the cultures and discourses of the esoteric/occult in modernism and/or
postmodernism.
Detailed proposals
(500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5-6,000 words, as well as all
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both guest editors:
Pia Brînzeu at <piabrinzeu@yahoo.com> and György E.
Szönyi at <geszonyi@lit.u-szeged.hu>.
The deadline for proposals is 13 November 2009, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2010. The issue will appear in 2011.
(posted 4 Apr '09)
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The Individual and the Mass
Gramma, Issue number 18, 2010
Deadline for proposals: 31
December 2009
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 Within the global environment of late modernity, concepts
of the "mass" are taking on new meanings. Views of the mass as "the
Beast / With many heads" ( Coriolanus
IVi1), as a contagious, irrational force (Le Bon) that overthrows
inhibitions and social restrictions (Freud), are still widespread,
particularly in popular media representations of crowd behavior.
However, new formulations of collective identity - by political
philosophers, social psychologists, psychoanalysts and media theorists,
among others - argue that groups often stimulate productive cooperation
among members, or may form a necessary site for resistance to power,
for political struggle and social change. Identity politics and the
valorization of difference or heterogeneity, cornerstones of postmodern
cultural studies, are increasingly in need of reassessment in light of
new media technologies, which, in conjunction with the globalization of
economic and cultural production, have inevitably impacted on social
bonds and created new communities and subjectivities, both "real" and
virtual, as well as new tensions between the local and the global. This
volume aims to explore the cultural and political implications of
theories of individual and collective identity, past and present, with
particular emphasis placed on the changing nature of social bonds in
the mass-mediated, globalised world of late capitalism. It also aims to
examine media, literary and filmic representations of the above
problematics.
Papers are welcomed on the following or related topics:
•
individual and collective subjectivities
• topographies of the private and the public
• agency and structure
• group or crowd psychology
• spontaneous crowds vs. insitutionalized crowds
• the future of class and/or identity politics
• gendering or racialising the “mass”
• gender dynamics of/in groups
• the globalised subject
• the global vs. the local
• populism
• homogeneity, heterogeneity, hegemony
• mass media(tions)
• cultural representations of groups and/or
collectivity
Papers should not exceed
the length of 7,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography) and
should be double-spaced. They should adhere to the latest MLA style of
documentation and should be submitted electronically in the form of a
Word document to the editor of the issue, Nicola Rehling, at the
following email address:
<rehling@enl.auth.gr>.
School of English
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
54124 Thessaloniki Greece
rehling@enl.auth.gr
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2009
Journal website: http://www.enl.auth.gr/gramma
(posted 7 Mar '09)
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2010
Multicultural
Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
Deadline for proposals: 31
January 2010
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Multicultural
Shakespeare is an
international journal devoted to Shakespearean studies; it is a forum
in which researchers, especially those from non-English-speaking
backgrounds, can air local concerns and themes that contribute to the
creation and understanding of Shakespeare as global phenomenon.
Multicultural Shakespeare appeared for the first
time in 1972 as Shakespeare Translation on the initiative of
Professor Toshikazu Oyama, the President of Seijo University in Japan.
Since then it has undergone various changes. In 1986 it became Shakespeare Worldwide: Translation and Adaptation and in 2003, took on its
present title. From its very beginning, Multicultural Shakespeare aroused interest around
the world and attracted many prominent scholars, soon becoming an
important publication in Shakespeare studies on a global scale.
Initially devoted mainly to translations, Multicultural Shakespeare developed into a
publication mediating vigorous discussions on the adaptation of
Shakespeare's texts, their ontology and cross-cultural significance. It
created an opportunity to present the universal dimension of
Shakespeare's works by focusing on their local values found in the
cultures of Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany Great
Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Norway,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and USA.
First printed in Japan,
now published in Łódź, Poland, Multicultural
Shakespeare seeks
co-operation with people who make, teach or simply enjoy theatre and
literature, and who are interested in addressing the problems of
translating, staging, reading and teaching Shakespeare worldwide.
We welcome contributions
in various areas of Shakespearean studies, page and stage renditions of
his plays, translations, critical analyses, book and theatre reviews.
For more information, visit the journal website: http://multicultural.online.uni.lodz.pl
(posted 29 Jan '09)
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Shakespeare et l'Ailleurs
/ Shakespeare and Elsewhere
Les Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir
/ The Journal of Shakespearean
Afterlives, Cahiers n°4
Deadline for proposals: 30
April 2010
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Ed. Muriel Cunin and
Pascale Drouet.
http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/licorne/sommaire.php?id=3680
What does “Elsewhere”
mean? It refers to an ambivalent form of space. It can hold out the
promise of another life, of an escape to "The Azure", of an invitation
to the voyage when the routine drudgery of life is dull, drab or even
unbearable. But it can also be synonymous with want, wandering, loss
and exile, or with a form of menacing emptiness and bring out the fear
of the unknown. Be it read in a positive or in a negative way (it will
be worth wondering if the multiple forms of Elsewhere may allow the
notion to escape this polarity), it is always a physical or
spatiotemporal projection towards the unfamiliar. Hence the following
questions: can Elsewhere be located anywhere? Is it a utopia (or a
dystopia)? Is it a fantasy, an illusion, a delusion? Can it be mapped
or is it to remain uncharted? How can it be represented? How can it be
staged?
Suggested topics:
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Elsewhere and the distancing, travelling, discovering, conquering and
territorialising process, that is to say, to use Gilles Deleuze and
Félix Guattari's terms, the dynamics of the smooth space to be
subjugated; Elsewhere as the promise of new worlds and new spaces;
Elsewhere as a form of encounter with another territory, but also with
the Other, which is reminiscent of the dialectics described as follows
by Richard Marienstras: "Moving away from what is near, moving close to
what is far off, inverts the usual relationship of man with his social
and natural environment" (Richard Marienstras, Le proche et le lointain).
- Elsewhere in its relation to exile and banishment, to what is
"outside", to unmappable territories -- "ces contrées d’en
dehors des cartes" (Yves Bonnefoy) --, in a deterritorialising process;
and, more radically, Elsewhere as "the undiscovered country" of Death,
a country that cannot be imagined or represented. Which means Elsewhere
as the space of exclusion, exclusion from society and the natural order
(Richard Marienstras).
- Elsewhere as a form of dream, as an escape to imaginary buildings and
landscapes. Elsewhere as part of theatrical illusion, as a place for
ephemeral creation and, more broadly speaking, as artistic space.
Papers may focus for instance on perspective as a passage to another
space, just like the stage described by Serlio, which becomes a place
of wonder: "within a small space could be seen palaces aligned in
perspective, with great temples and divers houses near and far, fine,
spacious open places decorated with many buildings, long straight
streets, crossed by side streets, triumphal arches, marvellous high
columns, pyramids, obelisks and a thousand other singular artefacts"
(Sebastiano Serlio).
- Elsewhere as a reflection of Bonnefoy's Hinterland. Elsewhere as
opposed to here and now, as a mental place, a place for quest, a
"country of higher essence" (Yves Bonnefoy) where projection and
reminiscence interact; the "unlocatable elsewhere" as opposed to the
"perishable here" (Yves Bonnefoy). How can they be linked? How can they
be reconciled?
- Elsewhere as a form of withdrawal (which can also be a form of
opening) into inner spaces, which may result in switching off through
madness, melancholy, meditation or prayer. Hence the following
question: how is it possible to avoid autism or schizophrenia? How is
it possible to reconcile inner and outer space, reality and imagination?
Completed contributions,
either in French or in English, with note on contributors (200 words)
and abstract (200 words), should be sent by attached file (.doc or
.rtf) to <pascale.drouet@neuf.fr> and
<muriel.cunin1@libertysurf.fr> before 30th April 2010.
For the style-sheet specific to the Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir
please see
http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/licorne/document.php?id=4067
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Little Magazines of American Poetry in the
Period 1970-2000
A special issue of Revista Canaria de
Estudios Ingleses (RCEI)
Deadline for proposals: 15
November 2010
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 The Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
( RCEI) is now accepting
original submissions of essays for publication in the 2011 April issue.
The deadline is November 15, 2010.
Please see http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing/Submissions.html
for submission.
As editor of this RCEI special issue on "Little
Magazines of American Poetry in the Period 1970-2000", I would welcome
contributions from scholars around the world, and any others who have a
stake in the understanding of this phenomenon
For more information contact Manuel Brito: <mbrito@ull.es>.
Papers, but not limited to, focusing on these issues are invited:
- What role/s little
magazines played in changing poetry and social perspectives in the
period 1970-2000?
- How academy subsumed innovations and creative research pusblished in
little magaziones?
- Market vs. individual position in the making of little magazines.
- The role of the editors as trademakers, practitioners, and creative
researchers.
- What are the benefits of these little magazines considered as 'high'
culture? Were they useful?
- How technological production affected potential readers of these
little magazines?
- Historical view on this kind of literary proudction.
Completed papers should be no more than 7,000 words.
Deadline: November 15, 2010
The Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
is a peer-reviewed academic journal auspiced by the University of La
Laguna (Spain) focusing on English studies.
(posted 8 Aug '08)
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Permanently Valid Calls for Papers
The Brontës and the
Idea of Influence
A thematic dossier in the
“Writers, writings” section of LISA e-journal
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 In March 2007, Stevie Davies, Patricia
Duncker and Michele Roberts gathered around Patsy Stoneman at Haworth
in Yorkshire to talk about the influence that the Brontës had had
on their evolutions as authors, and more generally, about the source of
inspiration that the most famous family of writers in England could
represent. Patsy Stoneman had already tackled the topic by publishing a
book entitled The Brontë
Influence in 2004 with the help of Charmian Knight. The issue of LISA e-journal "Re-Writing Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre, Past and Present" is
further evidence of Charlotte Brontë's influence on the writers of
the following decades or centuries. So far, these studies have been
quite limited and this field of research, "the Brontë influence",
offers a wide range of possible developments.
Moreover, if the four authors' poetry and novels have already been the
object of numerous studies, there is much left to write about the
influences which were exerted on the Brontës, whether religious,
literary, philosophical or cultural. Taking account of the context
of a work is often a good way of understanding the issues
underlying a text: the path taken by the Brontës, their journeys,
their stays abroad, the books they read, etc. could prove to be very
enlightening. Besides these external factors, one could also consider
the interactions between the three sisters, who wrote in the same room
and who read passages from their works aloud.
A final aspect to identify and study could be the influences which are
exerted within the Brontës' works themselves. How can one account
for the progress of the heroes and heroines? How is the influence that
characters have on one another expressed? What role does nature play in
the destiny of characters? Which other elements intervene in the novels?
This dossier devoted to the Brontës intends to analyse the works
through the perspective of influence and three different fields of
research can thus be considered:
- influences on the Brontës
- the idea of influence in the Brontës’ works
- the Brontë influence on the writers of the
19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Please send your proposals (one A4 page maximum) to Dr. Élise
Ouvrard <ouvrard_elise@hotmail.com>.
Accepted articles will be
published in the thematic dossier "The Brontës and the Idea of
Influence" in the "Writers, writings" section of LISA e-journal:
http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/publicationsGb.php?p=2&numId=0&it=dossiers
(posted 10 Jan '08)
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