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Please send submissions to othereuropes2016@hhu.de. All submissions must be received by 15 September 2015, and participants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by 15 October 2015.
See: www.facebook.com/pages/MLA-International-Symposium-Düsseldorf-2016/425612110962932 or mlasymposia.commons.mla.org for more information!
Call For Papers
Welcome to a new annual essay competition open to students of any academic level over the age of 18 and living anywhere in the world. It has been inaugurated in honour of the late Patrick Tolfree, author of monographs, avid Hardyan and tireless promoter of Hardy’s life and works within local schools. The essay topic will be broad and will change each year, but must be related to Hardy and his oeuvre.
The theme for this year’s competition is ‘Hardy in the World’. Essays of not more than 4000 words in length are warmly invited which may focus on, but are by no means limited to, the following –
How Hardy’s works are received in different cultures and countries
How Hardy is taught in different cultures and countries
Translating Hardy
Similarities/differences between how Dorset and Dorset characters are represented by Hardy compared to the literature of other geographical locations
The impact Hardy and his works have made upon a reader for whom English is a second language
The changing reception of Hardy and his works geographically over time
Hardy in the country versus Hardy in the city
Any aspect of Hardy’s prolific output may be focussed upon, whether it be novels, short stories, poems, essays or architectural work. The closing date for submissions is 30th September, 2015. The winner will receive a prize of £250 along with one year free membership of the Thomas Hardy Society, and will have the pleasure of seeing their essay published in the Hardy Society Journal.
Please send submissions and any enquiries to Tracy Hayes – THS Student Representative malady22@ntlworld.com
The International Yeats Society is excited to announce that registration is now available for our inaugural conference, A Writer Young and Old: Yeats at 150, at the University of Limerick from October 15-18.
The conference includes keynote talks by Alexandra Poulain (University of Lille 3), Matthew Campbell (University of York), and Marjorie Howes (Boston College), and a poetry reading by Bernard O’Donoghue (University of Oxford).
To become a member and register for the conference, please visit http://www.internationalyeatssociety.org/conference or contact iwbys@contact.org for more information.
Reminder: Abstracts due August 15, 2015
Announcing a CFP for “Theory, Method, Aesthetics: A Forum on Feminism and Modernist Studies,” a prospective peer-reviewed cluster for the Modernism/modernity Print-Plus Platform.
Feminism: scholarly method or object of study? Both? Neither? Feminism’s intellectual presence in modernist studies has been defined – and, occasionally, compromised – by answers to these questions. This forum debates how scholars of modernism should best retain the unique, indispensable insights of feminist theory, history, and aesthetics. At a moment when many feminist conversations happen in isolation from one another, how, if at all, should we bridge the distance separating archival or textual scholarship from the realm of philosophical inquiry? And if this is a question that troubles literary studies more generally, does it take on greater urgency when feminism is the organizing rubric? What slips out of our intellectual purview when modernist studies, taking feminism for granted, casts its gaze elsewhere? We welcome papers on feminist scholarship’s continuing relevance to modernist studies. Papers may address topics as diverse as women writers and the canon, evolutions in feminist theory, the praxis of recuperation, women’s history, modernist-feminist aesthetics, the politics of sexuality.
Please submit abstracts of 500 words on these questions and questions of adjacent interest to Urmila Seshagiri (sesha@utk.edu) by August 15, 2015. Abstracts will be reviewed in anticipation of the submission of polemical 3000 word short essays due by February 1, 2016.
Please find attached the programme for the forthcoming NMS hosted by Northumbria University at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne and supported by the North East Modernist Research Initiative. This event is free but for catering purposes please register your attendance to Victoria.Bazin@northumbria.ac.uk
Registration Open: THE UNORTHODOX ORTHODOXY: CATHOLICISM, MODERNISMS AND THE AVANT-GARDE
http://avantgardecatholicism.org/
University of Notre Dame London Centre, 1-4 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG, UK
25 September 2015
Keynote Speakers: Richard Canning, University of Northampton; Paul Robichaud, Albertus Magnus College; Martin Stannard, University of Leicester
To register visit: http://the-unorthodox-orthodox.eventbrite.co.uk ; http://avantgardecatholicism.org/registration/ or contact: avantgardecatholicism@gmail.com
In Jacques Maritain’s endnotes to his ‘Art et Scholastique’, citations from Thomas Aquinas sit side-by-side with extracts from Jean Cocteau, Pierre Reverdy and accounts of Cezanne. Yet, this creative tension has proved difficult to reconcile with existing assumptions about the avant-garde: religion can be construed as one more bourgeois prejudice from which the artist needs to free him or herself; or else artistic productions can be accorded a quasi-religious reverence that circumvents the need for institutional religion. Failing that, and thanks to the unacknowledged influence of various secularisation theories, one might think it impossible to be forward-thinking and yet hold religious views.
The key historical event around which these ideas coalesce is the 1907 Papal Bull, ‘Pascendi Dominici Gregis’ which condemned a range of new intellectual movements under a single heading: ‘modernism’. While apparently inauspicious for the creative tension this conference plans to examine – one recent critical study has suggested that literary modernism took its impetus from a positive appropriation of the term from Catholic discourse – attempts to steer clear of suspicious topics gave rise to wide-ranging discussion of aesthetics within Catholic circles.
Viewed more widely, there are numerous instances in English and French decadence, the artistic communities centred on Eric Gill at Ditchling and Capel-y-ffin and the crop of post-war British Catholic novelists – alongside the work of figures such as Pasolini, Gaudí and Marechal – where artistic experimentation has become manifest as an outpouring of intense Catholic renewal. Recognition of this phenomenon demands a far-reaching revision to the narratives told about twentieth-century artistic endeavour and, indeed, a re-consideration of the way in which Catholicism has come to position itself in relation to society.
This one-day conference will initiate this revisionary process by foregrounding the stimulus Catholic thought has provided for artistic experimentation, across the globe, from the 1890s onwards.
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Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics addresses how late modernist poetry in Britain tended toward a culturalist expression and importantly how this occurred within the pages of literary periodicals. ‘Periodical formations’ describe networks of exchange within and between different literary periodicals that condition the types of poetry published and the kinds of poetic discourse that come to predominate. A re-emphasis on periodical production following the publication of Eliot’s The Waste Land and culminating with the pre-Movement magazines of the 1940’s illustrates a complex and diverse series of debates and negotiations about not only the tradition of English poetry and its role in contemporaneous form, but also how poetry of the period related to the avant-garde trends prominent on the European continent and in America. By focusing on periodical formations, the development of what are now accepted understandings of the period can be better addressed, and certain lasting assumptions can be demythologized.
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The editors invite proposals for essays on the theme of ‘strata’ across English literature in the period 1860-1930. This period saw landmarks in archaeological discovery including the ancient city of Troy in 1868 through to the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922. In the early twentieth century, the radiometric dating of strata revolutionised geology, while psychology moved into a laboratory setting, and pioneers such as Sigmund Freud developed ground-breaking techniques to penetrate the unconscious. Thus the era was one in which varieties of depths – both literal and figurative – were explored, their treasures exposed, and their secrets made to impact upon the ways in which both the external world and the internal self were perceived.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
– Dream, memory, consciousness and subconsciousness
– Archaeological discoveries and sites, ruins
– The artefact or the historical site as a stimulus for psychological experience
– Haunted ruins, tombs or museums
– Geological strata, coastlines, fossils
– The relationship between scholarly literature on geology / archaeology and fictional writing
The editors are particularly interested in essays which marry the two threads of physical (geological / archaeological) and psychological strata.
Essay abstracts (approx. 500 words) and a short biography (up to 100 words) including your name, position and affiliation, should be sent to strataconference@gmail.com by 30 September 2015. Longer outlines or drafts are also welcome at this time. The editors aim to notify selected authors by mid-October, and completed essays should be submitted by January 2016.
Queries are welcome concerning submission topics.
Visit the MLA Commons site dedicated to the development of this volume; you’ll find the book proposal, resources, opportunity to offer comment and feedback, as well as this call and a submission portal: https://modwomen.commons.mla.org
Essay proposals are invited for a volume entitled Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English, to appear in the Options for Teaching series published by the Modern Language Association. The purpose of the volume is to meet the needs of instructors seeking pedagogical strategies for teaching modernist women’s writing in English and the ways in which women were vital creators and participants in the works and networks of modernism. The volume aims to capture the multiplicity of artistic, political, and social networks of which women writers were a part, crossing gender, class, and national boundaries, and to share ways to teach these connections and concepts from a wide range of contributors who work from different critical orientations and in different types of institutions and classroom settings. The volume will include material relevant for specialists and generalists who are teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in alternative classroom and institutional situations. The teaching resources to be shared will include current scholarship, readings, and digital tools.
Essays responding to four general areas through the lens of pedagogical theory and practice are sought: teaching modernism or modernist studies, thematic concerns, genre or form, and theoretical or methodological approaches. Contributions might cover topics related to issues and definitions in modernist studies, particularly as relevant to the study of women writers. These essays might focus on contexts and conceptual questions important to modernism and highlight the importance of women writers therein. Some essays might take up the teaching of a specific theme (e.g., trauma, colonialism, globalization, race, class, sexuality) or topic (e.g., suffrage, war, empire, socialism, communism, fascism, the workplace, little magazines, the literary marketplace). Other essays might look at the ways women writers used particular forms and genres (fiction, documentary, journalism, life writing, poetry, pamphlets or manifestos, “the middlebrow,” genre fiction, working-class writing, film, drama); these might consider teaching the tension between tradition and the avant-garde or the noteworthy contributions that women made to the avant-garde. Finally, essays might describe and exemplify teaching informed by particular critical or methodological approaches, such as theoretical perspectives (postcolonial studies, queer studies, narrative theory), interdisciplinary work (art, music, dance, science, technology) or intertextuality, the digital humanities, and the teaching of writing or multimodal pedagogy. A balance is sought among writers from the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as writers working in English from other regions of the world (e.g., the Caribbean, India).
Proposals should mention and define specific terms, concepts, techniques, and classroom contexts as appropriate. They should describe the intended topic, particularly the pedagogical approach taken to teaching modernist women’s writing, including methodology, evidence, theoretical or critical framework, and significance for those teaching in the field. The proposal should indicate the value of the intended topic to a broad range of instructors and should maintain a clear focus on teaching. Please note that any quotations from student papers will require written permission from the students.
Proposals of 500 words (for potential completed essays of 3,000–3,500 words) should be sent to Janine Utell (janine.utell@gmail.com) by 1 December 2015 via e-mail. Proposals may also be submitted through the site on the MLA Commons dedicated to the volume’s development: https://modwomen.commons.mla.org
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