A Critical Companion to Dario Argento

edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

For over a century, studies of the medieval epic in romance languages have focused on questions of genesis, transmission, themes, symbols, and motifs, but the contributions from the non-human—but very real—natural world to this literature remains under-represented. These epics bear witness to a profound understanding of the inter-relatedness of all life forms and to the consequences of its denial. This session invites scholars from diverse disciplines to reconsider medieval romance epic traditions that reaffirm the bond between the human and non-human, and that address any human eclipse due to the discounting of the natural world.

This panel invites papers that theorize the surplus of a literary object as something accidentally produced by that object. What is the substance and effect of this surplus? How is surplus figured in poetry, especially in poetics in or working in relation to the New York School? Following Stephen Best's assertion that "beauty is a force of erasure," papers might contribute theories of beauty in or as surplus. If art implies a frame but beauty can also erase that frame, papers might theorize framing in poetry and consider poetics that both constitute and move to exceed a frame. What else might constitute or figure surplus in poetry? Do New York School poetics figure a surplus of discourse or perhaps of thought?

This call for papers aims at bringing efforts geared towards the study of a much-neglected field of translation which is self-translation. Self-translation may look transparent and easy in terms of definition: an author or a writer translates his work into another language. This of course involves a bilingual attempt: an author writes a text in Arabic and then translates it into English or any other language. What are the problematics involved in this attempt is the main theme of this call for paper which will gather contributions in a publishable special issue once the reviews are completed.

The proposed interdisciplinary panel examines the rich relationship of music and the literary works within various European literatures focusing primarily on the period from mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century, but presentations within a broader time frame will also be considered. We invite a wide range of papers investigating the author’s technique of representing music in literature, examining aesthetic, historical and cultural interactions between music and literature, audience and performers, as well as the relationship between the author and the composer, in real or fictional form

Call for Papers

The ‘Ordinary Magic’ of Resilience in Anglophone Literatures: 

Past, Present, Futures

22-23 February 2024

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Call for papers | RCL nº. 59 | Media-Bodies: matter and imaginary 

https://rcl.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/rcl/announcement/view/6

Submissions deadline: July 31, 2023 changed to 22 September 2023 (full articles)
Expected publication date: December 2023 

Editors: 
Aida Castro (ICNOVA / I2ADS) 
Maria Mire (CICANT / AR.CO) 

UPDATED: The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference.  

NEPCA’s 2023 fall conference will be held as a virtual conference from Thursday October 12 to Saturday October 14, 2023. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.   

International conference | November 27-28, 2023

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid ES

KEYNOTES: Cathryn Halverson (Södertörn University), John Wills (University of Kent)

KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE: Rewest Research Group (David Río, Amaia Ibarraran, Angel Chaparro, Amaia Soroa)

• contact email: LLC2023conference@gmail.com 
  • 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture 
  • The topical theme of the conference is "Fashion as Material Culture"
  • Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Bending, University of Southampton and Prof. Dr. Abby Lillethun, Montclair State University
    

Title: The Ninth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature

Date:1-2 February 2024

Venue: Ahwaz, Iran

Website: WWW.LLLD.IR

General Description:

The Ninth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature is organized by different universities and research centers.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

The global and digital connectivity of recent years has transformed creative writing infrastructure and practice around the world.  Recent decades have seen a number of critical and popular publications exploring the history and practice of creative writing, from Marc McGurl’s “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” (2011) to Lisa Jaillant’s Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writing in Anglo-American Universities (2022). Yet, as these titles suggest, the critical focus has been on US and UK courses.

Rethinking Masculinities

Issue Editors:

Prof. Niladri R. Chatterjee

Professor, Department of English

University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal

&

Mahamadul Hassan Dhabak

Assistant Professor in English

Department of Basic Science & Humanities

B V Raju Institute of Technology, Narsapur, Telangana

Call for Proposals