CFP: Ornament (grad) (8/27/04; journal issue)

full name / name of organization: 
Kieryn McKay

PHILAMENT invites contributors for its fifth edition. This upcoming issue is to
circulate around ideas of Ornament.

Deadline: Friday 27th August 2004.

Ornamental ideas, suggestions, texts or otherwise:

# ornament # decoration # Christmas # gifts # wrapping # ribbon (Rousseau's
purloined ribbon, ribbon in hair - a lock of hair) # presentation # pretension
# surfaces (bodies, veneers, laminates, plastic, natural vs. unnatural)#
superficial # superscript (footnotes as ornament) # manuscript # print culture
# type setting # book design # bibliographies # marginalia # bibliophilia #
collectables and collectors' communities # ornamental writing # graphology #
autobiography # graffiti # calligraphy # poetry # translation # encryption #
semiotics # code breaking # image/language # Mise en Scene # celluloid #
graphic novels # subculture # punk # masquerade # carnivale # Mardi Gras #
festival # ceremony # ritual # totem poles # crucifix # talisman # charm #
amulet # (re)appropriation of myth # orientalism # Japan # fashion # designer
labels # jewellery # body insignia # scarring # tattoos # piercing # image
manipulation # plastic surgery # Hollywood # Las Vegas # celebrity # ornamental
personality # gender identity (slugs, snails vs. sugar, spice) # dandy # flaneur
# Liberace # Elvis # embellishment # textile # tapestry # needlework # painting
# architecture # horticultural decorations # topiary # theories of aesthetics #

Ornament. So, for example, you might like to write an article about puritanical
insignia in early American literature, or about the physical and psychological
scarring of teenagers in young adult literature. Equally, you could submit a
paper on the translational slippage between scripts (transcript, manuscript,
etc) on the road to publication. Any way you look at it, you are writing about
ornament. And you ornament as you do so. Maybe you could write about that.

Go on then, adorn us.

Submissions should be sent to philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au and must be received
by Friday 27th August, 2004. Earlier submissions are encouraged.

Please see our submissions page for details on length and formatting:
www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/submissions.htm

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