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The Fine Art of Commenting on Books that Don’t Exist: A Borgesian Experiment

updated: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 9:49am
NeMLA - Baltimore, MD, March 23-26 2017
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

Borges once cheekily wrote, “Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness…A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer …a commentary.” Indeed authors as varied as Borges, Lovecraft, Dick, Apollinaire, Lew, and Asimov placed completely fictional books at the center of their own literary universes. That would make a fascinating panel, but that is not this panel. Rather, what this panel seeks are academic-style works of literary theory and criticism which take as their primary texts completely fictional novels, stories, movements, authors, and films.

"The Death of Zod": Ethics in 21st-Century Comics

updated: 
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 5:30pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

Avid comic book fans sat appalled in theatres as Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel reached the climax of the film in which Superman kills his enemy Zod. Snyder’s film raises the question of whether this killing and the death of Zod could actually fit with Superman’s traditional moral compass. From Man of Steel to the CW’s Arrow and Flash series to the Avengers franchise, comic book characters are facing new ethical developments in their rejuvenation that both encompass and go beyond the idea of killing one’s enemy.

Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics [UPDATED]

updated: 
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 3:08pm
2017 NeMLA Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

For a long time now, Canadian poets (most notably bpNichol, but there are many others) have been credited with making significant initiatory experiments in the fields we now call electronic literature and digital poetics, but there has been relatively little work done examining what precisely constitutes a Canadian digital poetics, what kinds of writing constitute the genre, and what new reading practices are invited by these new projects in digital poetics. This panel looks at the emerging field of Canadian digital poetics and asks two primary questions: what is the role of a national literature in the increasingly boundary-less world of electronic literature? and, how do Canadian digital poetics change the way that we read and engage with these texts?

Beauty and Truth in Composition and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:10pm
Georgia and Carolinas College English Association at SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

 

 

GEORGIA AND CAROLINAS CEA AT SAMLA

In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats declared that beauty and truth are as one.  But are they? T. S. Eliot called Keats’s pronouncement “meaningless” and “a serious blemish on a beautiful poem.” Scientists and mathematicians debate beauty in terms of symmetry.  Aestheticians ponder what is beautiful and try to determine whether it is true.  Ethicists and theologians explore the moral nexus between beauty and truth. For its 2016 GACCEA at SAMLA session, the GACCEA seeks proposals that discuss beauty and/or truth.  Potential topics include:

One Hundred Years of Reading Hopkins: Special Issue of Victorian Poetry DEADLINE January 31, 2017

updated: 
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 9:31pm
Lesley Higgins (York University) and Amanda Paxton (Trent University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

To mark the centenary of the first edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poems (1918), there will be a special issue of Victorian Poetry in summer 2018. The guest editors of the issue are asking for completed essays that focus on a specific poem, or a pair of poems. (Submissions should not focus on “The Wreck of the Deutschland.”) Contributions should account for the shifting critical receptions of the texts since their publication and suggest new directions for Hopkins scholarship. Contributors might consider issues such as the politicization of Hopkins, Hopkins’s changing audience, appropriations of Hopkins, or Hopkins inside and outside of the academy.

CFP NeMLA (23-26 March 2017): Comics and Graphic Novels in a Transnational Perspective

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:10pm
Northeast Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below a CFP for next-year's NeMLA conference in Baltimore, MD, March 23-26, 2017. If interested, please submit a 300-word abstract through the following link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16284. The submission opens June 15 and ends Septemer 30. Feel free to forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested.

Sincerely,

Julia Ludewig

TRANSITIONS – New Directions in Comics Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:10pm
Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 26, 2016

TRANSITIONS – New Directions in Comics Studies
at Birkbeck College, London, on Saturday November 19th 2016.

Organised in collaboration with Comica- London International Comics Festival, Transitions at Birkbeck College is unique in offering a regular comics studies symposium and meeting point in London, a platform for emerging research at an event that is free of charge and open to all. Originally convened by PhD students in 2009, Transitions has become an annual fixture in the UK comics scholars’ calendar.

Noire is the new noir: the Série Noire and the Franco-American detective traditions

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:10pm
The American University of Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Noire is the new noir: the Série Noire and the Franco-American detective traditions

 

Saturday, November 5th, 2016, The American University of Paris.

 

Plenary speaker: Aurélien Masson, director, Gallimard Série Noire

 

CFP: Peer-reviewed Journal. ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa

updated: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 4:11pm
University of Valladolid
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The new Editorial Board of ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa is pleased to announce its Call for Submissions for Issue 38 (2017).

ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, a refereed scientific journal published yearly by the Department of Filología Inglesa at the University of Valladolid, cordially invites submission of original manuscripts, in the form of research articles and book reviews, dealing with all major areas of English Studies, these including Language and Linguistics, Literature and Criticism, History and Culture, Translation Studies, and Philology and Textual Studies.