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EXTREME MAINSTREAM
Guest Editor, David Wittenberg
LISA E-Journal is inviting contributions to an issue on Biography versus
Fiction: the Value of Testimony to be published in June 2004. This theme of
reflection focuses on the value and authenticity of historical testimony
when it is conveyed by any kind of subjective literary form, whether it be
the autobiographical genre stemming from personal experience or the
subjective interpretation of this testimony through fictional literary
works. The field of study discussed is that of American XIXth and XXth
century cultural studies, directly linked with minorities and written
testimonies coming from ethnic groups. In this domain, more than in any
LISA E-Journal is inviting contributions to an issue on Biography versus
Fiction: the Value of Testimony to be published in June 2004. This theme of
reflection focuses on the value and authenticity of historical testimony
when it is conveyed by any kind of subjective literary form, whether it be
the autobiographical genre stemming from personal experience or the
subjective interpretation of this testimony through fictional literary
works. The field of study discussed is that of American XIXth and XXth
century cultural studies, directly linked with minorities and written
testimonies coming from ethnic groups. In this domain, more than in any
MARY AUGUSTA WARD: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
Submissions are invited for a collection of critical essays centring upon
the life and work of Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) [1851-1920]. The
essays should be in the region of 4000-6000 words, and may treat of any
aspect Ward’s career, but the special emphasis will be upon Ward’s fiction.
Some topics for consideration may include (but are not limited to) the
following:
MARY AUGUSTA WARD: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
Submissions are invited for a collection of critical essays centring upon
the life and work of Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) [1851-1920]. The
essays should be in the region of 4000-6000 words, and may treat of any
aspect Ward’s career, but the special emphasis will be upon Ward’s fiction.
Some topics for consideration may include (but are not limited to) the
following:
MARY AUGUSTA WARD: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
Submissions are invited for a collection of critical essays centring upon
the life and work of Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) [1851-1920]. The
essays should be in the region of 4000-6000 words, and may treat of any
aspect Ward’s career, but the special emphasis will be upon Ward’s fiction.
Some topics for consideration may include (but are not limited to) the
following:
Articles Needed for Our Winter 2003 Issue
Colleagues--
Academic Exchange Quarterly, one of the fastest-growing
peer-reviewed print journals in the U.S., encourages
additional submissions for its Winter 2003 issue.
The issue will be devoted to several themes, one of
which is "Teaching Environmental Literature":
http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/win03.htm
Another theme for which we are soliciting
articles is "Writing and Social Awareness":
For an anthology on alternative country music, we are seeking critical
essays from the perspective of any discipline--music, literature,
history, communications/media studies, women's studies, philosophy,
linguistics, rhetoric, cultural studies, and others. We invite
discussions of a wide range of subjects, such as:
** Alt.country's relationship to Nashville
** Performance practices
** Alt.country in the marketplace
** Roots (e.g. punk, grunge)
** Fandom
** Media (print and online)
** race
** gender
** class
Please send questions and abstracts of no more than 500 words to the
following address: altcountryanthology_at_yahoo.com
GRAMMA
Journal of Theory and Criticism
Issue Number 13, 2005
CALL FOR PAPERS
Comparative Literature and Global Studies:
Histories and Trajectories
GRAMMA
Journal of Theory and Criticism
Issue Number 13, 2005
CALL FOR PAPERS
Comparative Literature and Global Studies:
Histories and Trajectories
SEPTET
YEDITEPE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Call for Papers
Vol. 1, No 1.
At the Crossroads of Knowledge
Defining Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
For a reader aimed at college-level composition
students which has been accepted by a nationally
recognized textbook publisher (to be published in
2005), I am looking for papers on American youth
subcultures. I am primarily interested in
contemporary subcultures, especially ones which are
very new (e.g., online fan fiction) but will also
consider essays on historic subcultures like flappers,
hippies, etc.
For a reader aimed at college-level composition
students which has been accepted by a nationally
recognized textbook publisher (to be published in
2005), I am looking for papers on American youth
subcultures. I am primarily interested in
contemporary subcultures, especially ones which are
very new (e.g., online fan fiction) but will also
consider essays on historic subcultures like flappers,
hippies, etc.
For a reader aimed at college-level composition
students which has been accepted by a nationally
recognized textbook publisher (to be published in
2005), I am looking for papers on American youth
subcultures. I am primarily interested in
contemporary subcultures, especially ones which are
very new (e.g., online fan fiction) but will also
consider essays on historic subcultures like flappers,
hippies, etc.
The deadline for submitting essays to BOWLES NOTES has been extended to
July 31, 2003.
The deadline for submitting essays to BOWLES NOTES has been extended to
July 31, 2003.
**Apologies for X-posting**
Please forward this message as necessary:
The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and
copy for the September 2003 issue on the following subjects:
- Book/journal announcements
- Brief reviews of past conferences/exhibits
- CFP's
- Grant/scholarship/fellowship opportunities and awards
- Requests for information
- News/information of interest to Victorianists (upcoming exhibits or
conferences, new websites, etc.)
**Apologies for X-posting**
Please forward this message as necessary:
The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and
copy for the September 2003 issue on the following subjects:
- Book/journal announcements
- Brief reviews of past conferences/exhibits
- CFP's
- Grant/scholarship/fellowship opportunities and awards
- Requests for information
- News/information of interest to Victorianists (upcoming exhibits or
conferences, new websites, etc.)
Update CFP
Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Editors seek additional essays for an issue on
Re-Defining/Re-Constructing
the Americas
Deadline: 1st December 2003 (for completed essays)
If interested, please send a 300 word abstract ASAP to the editors at
phoebe_at_oneonta.edu <mailto:phoebe_at_oneonta.edu>
Topics include but are not limited to:
-Gender / Sexuality / Identity
-Comparative cultural/historical/political analysis
-English-language “representations” of literatures and cultures of the
Americas
The editors are open to considering a wide variety of essays from
cross-disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
Update CFP
Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Editors seek additional essays for an issue on
Re-Defining/Re-Constructing
the Americas
Deadline: 1st December 2003 (for completed essays)
If interested, please send a 300 word abstract ASAP to the editors at
phoebe_at_oneonta.edu <mailto:phoebe_at_oneonta.edu>
Topics include but are not limited to:
-Gender / Sexuality / Identity
-Comparative cultural/historical/political analysis
-English-language “representations” of literatures and cultures of the
Americas
The editors are open to considering a wide variety of essays from
cross-disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
Contributions are invited for a volume of interpretive essays on World War I posters. Many books, including Maurice Rickards's classic Posters of the First World War (1968), have brought the poster images of World War I to a wider viewing public. This volume seeks to interpret and contextualize posters and to explore the role they played in mediating public understanding of war experience at the front and on the home front in combatant nations. Essays that compare posters in different national contexts are particularly encouraged. Essays might address:
Grave Concerns: Critical Approaches to Six Feet Under
Grave Concerns: Critical Approaches to Six Feet Under
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 June 2003
M/C - Media and Culture
is calling for contributors to the 'joke' issue of
M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.
At the most recent meeting of the American Comparative Literature =
Association in San Marcos, the outgoing president lamented the fact that =
almost 90% of comparative literature sessions in recent years have been =
devoted to relatively modern texts and issues. What has happened to pre- =
and early modern topics in comparative literature?=20
At the most recent meeting of the American Comparative Literature =
Association in San Marcos, the outgoing president lamented the fact that =
almost 90% of comparative literature sessions in recent years have been =
devoted to relatively modern texts and issues. What has happened to pre- =
and early modern topics in comparative literature?=20
At the most recent meeting of the American Comparative Literature =
Association in San Marcos, the outgoing president lamented the fact that =
almost 90% of comparative literature sessions in recent years have been =
devoted to relatively modern texts and issues. What has happened to pre- =
and early modern topics in comparative literature?=20
Call for Submissions
Riot!Magazine
An Arts & Literary Cultural Magazine
Riot! is now seeking submissions of fiction, poetry,
essays, and visual art, including political cartoons,
music, film and book reviews. Email your submissions
to editor_at_riotmagazine.com or sent via post to Riot
Magazine, PO Box 425, Marshfield, MA 02050.
Call for Submissions
Riot!Magazine
An Arts & Literary Cultural Magazine
Riot! is now seeking submissions of fiction, poetry,
essays, and visual art, including political cartoons,
music, film and book reviews. Email your submissions
to editor_at_riotmagazine.com or sent via post to Riot
Magazine, PO Box 425, Marshfield, MA 02050.
Dear contributors,
I am looking for contribution (within 4000 words) on Shashi Tharoor’s “The
Great Indian Novel” for my book on Indian English Novels (1980-2000).
Please submit a proposal within 500 to 800 words before August 15th 2003.
Sent in a cv along with your proposal.
The proposal will be selected through competitive reviewing.
The other contributors for the book include:
Gayatri chakraborty spivak
Homi bhabha
Simon during
Richard Kearney
Arif Dirlik
Bill Ashcroft
Shashi tharoor
Vikram chandra
Sunetra gupta
Amit Chaudhuri
Sangeeta Ray
Grant Farred & others