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2017-2018 Academic Year
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: Deadline Extended to 7/24/17
This convention will bring together scholars working across the broad field of literary studies to discuss the literary as an interface between different forms of knowledge and processes of knowledge formation, looking at questions of how and through what means the literary is communicated, represented, negotiated, and remade. By placing the concept of the literary centre-stage while at the same time interrogating its role as an interface, we wish to open up for discussion questions about the role, dynamism, and value of the literary in a time of institutional change and ongoing disciplinary formation.
Every play imagines its own world—but the worlds they imagine must in some way connect with their audience. This panel invites perspectives on early modern English drama that considers the balance between these two poles: the imagined world of the setting and its connection to the surrounding culture in early modern England. This balance is particularly important in early modern English drama for both historical reasons—an increased awareness of other worlds and their different reality within the expanding cultural purview of the early modern English—and literary ones—since so much criticism of these plays has focused on their relation to early modern England itself to the exclusion of their frequently quite disparate settings.
It's A "Normal" World After All? Theme Parks and the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference”
Jennifer A. Kokai, Weber State University
Tom Robson, Millikin University
Title: From the Curious to the Quantum: Bodies at the Intersection of Science and Performance
American Society for Theatre Research conference
Atlanta, GA
November 16-19, 2017
Session Co-Conveners:
Vivian Appler, College of Charleston
Meredith Conti, University at Buffalo – SUNY
Description:
This panel investigates early modern coping strategies that engage both possibility and temporality. Specifically, how do early modern texts model alternative temporalities that evoke revised histories, alternative presents, or potential futures? How might intertextuality, grammatical structures, wordplay, and visual or other paratextual elements signal possibility? And how might alternative temporalities revise early modern subjectivity?
Topics of interest might include:
The Editorial Board of Acta Iassyensia Comparationis,a thematic, interdisciplinary biannual e-journal published by the Department of Comparative Literature of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, invites you to publish in AIC 20 (2/2017), devoted to the VIS ŞI REALITATE / DREAM AND REALITY / RÊVE ET RÉALITÉtopic. By the choice of this theme, we intend to bring together, in one volume, approaches to the different (and yet related) genres and subgenres of fantastic literature, science-fiction and imaginary ethnography.
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
https://journals.ku.edu/jdtc
Special Section for Spring 2018
Guest Editor, Eero Laine
On Dramatic Theory
Laughter in “High Art/Low Art”: Playing with Boundaries in French and Francophone Literatures
Academic journal CULTURAL INTERTEXTS invites proposals of original articles for its 7th volume.
The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle, among others:
- discourse of literature. text, pretext and context;
- history and his story;
- women’s voices;
- memory and (re)writing;
- dialogism and intertextualities;
- writing games;
- politics in and of fiction;
- representations of identity;
- sociological imagination in literature;
- literature in and of the new media.