theory

This panel will explore the notion of texture in relation to nineteenth-century American literature and culture. In an essay titled "Outing Texture" Renu Bora distinguishes between texture as "the surface resonance or quality of an object or material" and texxture (two x's) as "the stuffness of material structure." Put differently, we can say that texxture denotes the historicity of texture, or the maker's marks. In Eve Sedgwick's rendering of Bora's concept, texxture is thought to be "the kind of texture that is dense with offered information about how, substantially, historically, materially, it came into being." We might then ask: how does the dialectic of texture/texxture influence literary productions and their reception?

CALL FOR ENTRIES (RESEARCH PAPER ABSTRACTS AND POETRY):

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (ISSN 2278-9650) invites writers and researchers to submit their original works of poetry, or abstracts of creative non-fiction, art/book/film reviews and research papers on travel/travel poetics for publication in Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Sep '13, Issue VIII (online). The works published in the forthcoming issue will be republished in the print issue of Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Autumn 2013 (ISSN – 2278-9642), along with the previous online issue of Jul '13, Issue VII, in October, 2013.

Apologies for error in previous posting - the date for the conference has been moved to Saturday 26th October. All other details remain the same. The CFP remains open til July 30.

Transitions 4 is a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its fourth year at Birkbeck.

Bad Signals: Collected Essays on the Work of Warren Ellis

CFA: Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century (abstracts: 31 November 2013, articles: 31 March 2014)
full name / name of organization:
Supernatural Studies Association Journal
contact email:
supernaturalstudies@gmail.com

The Supernatural Studies Journal is now accepting proposals for a themed issue on the supernatural in the nineteenth century (due Winter 2014), guest edited by Janine Hatter and Sara Williams.