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Dictionaries and disability for special issue of journal Dictionaries

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:15pm
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North AmericaDictionary Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue on “Dictionaries and Disability: Ideologies, Definitions, and Depictions.”

The Affordances of Frustrating Narratives (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 2:50pm
Isidora Cortes-Monroy & Daniel Aureliano Newman / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

To what ends do narratives fail? If narrative is our way of making sense of the world (Herman 2004), why frustrate sense-making? Well-known in experimental fiction and film (from Sterne, Stein and Rankine to Caché and The Stanley Parable), frustrated narratives also occur, intriguingly, in texts with more practical, didactic or ideological aims: documentaries, journalism, political discourse, advertising, etc. And despite our rich conceptual vocabulary of frustrating narratives—“weak narrativitiy” (McHale 2001), plot “perversion” (Roof 1996), “antinarrative” (Rose 2012), “unnarratability” (Abbott 2003; Warhol 2005)—much remains to be explored about the motivations, readerly dynamics and impacts of narrative frustration.

Emersonian Revolutions Today

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:07pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Emerson Society at the Thoreau Annual Gathering CFP

The Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering this summer in Concord, Mass. (July 9-13, 2025). This year’s conference theme is Thoreau’s Revolutions. We will consider papers both on the topic below and on the conference theme more generally.

“Emersonian Revolutions Today”

Emerson's Like-Minded Transcendentalists

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:07pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP: American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for two panels at the upcoming ALA conference in Boston.

"Emerson's Like-Minded Transcendentalists."

"Existence Precedes Essence": (Post)Colonial Reconciliations

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 2:50pm
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - In-person, Seoul, Korea, 28th July 2025 - 1st August 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.

Teaching Poe's Humor - ALA 2025 Poe Studies Association Teaching Panel

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:18pm
Poe Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Edgar Allan Poe worked for a double audience (the popular and the critical), in double tones and manners (grim and mocking, metaphysical and pseudo-scientific). Whether he strove for alternance or interdependence between the terms “grotesque” and “arabesque” which he used to categorize his own narratives, critics such as G. R. Thompson and Dennis Eddings have argued that the former – more visible in tales such as “King Pest,” “Some Words with a Mummy,” “Lionizing,” and “Loss of Breath” -  underscored the carnivalesque, the satirical, and the hoaxical.

XV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: THE AGE OF EXCESS

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:06pm
The Lisbon Consortium - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

After years of financial crisis and politics of austerity, as well as a pandemic that brought ordinary life to a halt, culture today is laden with excess. This excess can take many different shapes and foster diverse readings, some of them positive, focusing on excess as an opportunity, while others reflect on its pernicious effects.

 

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 9:40pm
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

 

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Mosaic Outlooks: New Directions in Studies of Scottish Literature, Culture, and Society

Guest Editors: Kang-yen Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Shu-fang Lai, National Sun Yat-sen University

 

Publication Date: June 2026 (Issue No. 55)

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025

 

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