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Displaying results 1 to 15 of 18.

  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Lyric Resilience: The Subject and its Questions (Seminar) (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract In his famous essay 'On Lyric Poetry and Society', Adorno argues that the lyric subject is conditioned by a “collective undercurrent” that makes it “more than a mere subject” and prevents poetic language from being fully...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 09.09.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Portrayals of Africans in Europe and the USA in Modern African Literature (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Diverse African literary works portray the experiences of African characters in the United States and other Western nations. Such works include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers, and NoViolet Bulawayo's We...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    South Asian Literatures: Women Writing Men, Men Writing Women (Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2023) (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    South Asian literary works have given us a memorable array of complex portraits of women and men and the relations between them. Some characters favor traditional modes of understanding the roles and behaviors of the sexes and their...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Distinctively Caribbean Cultures and Characters (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Caribbean poets, dramatists, and novelists have created a complex portrait of the Islands' cultures and characters. Certainly many of these characters' and cultures' traits resonate with those in other areas of the world. But what are some of the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    The Intertext in Literature and Film - NeMLA Panel (NeMLA's 54th Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The panel, “The Intertext in Literature and Film”, aims at gathering papers that discuss the plurality of texts in literary genres and the film genre. Intertextuality is conceived of, in this discussion, from Kristeva’s coinage of the term. In her...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and other forms of art,  Poetics
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Modernist Jany Eyre? (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Coming to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, for the first time, one may be struck by its apparently forward-looking elements, ones that do not seem to line up with expectations for early Victorian novels. In terms of the novel's...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Dealing with the Devil: The Faust Motif (NeMLA Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dealing with the Devil: The Faust Motif Papers for this roundtable need not involve actual deals with the devil, though such papers are welcome. The session will explore works in which a character or multiple characters engage in an activity...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 22.08.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Music in Literature (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The proposed interdisciplinary panel examines the rich relationship of music and literary works within various world literatures focusing primarily on the twentieth century, but presentations within a broader time frame will also be considered. We...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 2 more
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    The Russian Realist Novel and the World (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The panel seeks to examine Russian realist novels and their impact on other world literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth century, as well as contemporary authors, and study the possible connections between the Russian realist tradition and...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy and 4 more
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    In the Eye of the Beholder: Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Object (54th NeMLA Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chairs: Matthew Lovett (University of Pittsburgh) Julia Bruehne (University of Bremen) Kant’s account of aesthetic judgments is well-known. For him, beauty is characterized by a universal, necessary, and subjective feeling of ...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 05.08.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Representations and Visions of the Future in Modernist Literature (Niagara Falls, NY)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Several examples of literature produced from the late Victorian age narrate great concerns about the future and the destiny of humanity, concerns that would be significantly exacerbated in the twentieth century by the Great War, soon followed by...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 29.07.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NEMLA-Panel: Colonies and Critique: Reassessing German-Language Representations of Empire (Niagara Falls)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To be held at the 2023 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Niagara Falls, March 26-28 2023 German-language writings on imperialism are of key interest not only in order to fundamentally understand historical...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 27.06.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Themes of Julia Kristeva’s Abjection (Roundtable, NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *** Please submit your abstracts through the online portal. *** Summary Description: Julia Kristeva's abjection in language, literature, and art. Themes included but not limited to, the physical body, the religious imagination, psychological...

    Fields of research Literary theory
    Created on: 20.06.2022