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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Tropes of Adventure (ACLA seminar)
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Seminar at the Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, 16–19 March 2023) In contemporary Western culture, the term ‘adventure’ seems to be applicable to almost everything. While the ‘adventure appeal’ is...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel,  Rhetoric and 1 more
    Created on: 20.09.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2022
    Louise d’Épinay, femme de « lettres ». Épistolarité, récit et roman
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Louise d’Épinay, femme de « lettres » Épistolarité, récit et roman Colloque international Université Paris Nanterre et Musée Montmorency Mercredi 8 et jeudi 9 novembre 2023 Louise-Florence-Tardieu d’Esclavelle...

    Fields of research French literature,  Novel,  Narrative and 3 more
    Created on: 12.09.2022
  6. Denys Chyk
    University or institution: Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; The fictional; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2022
    Ulysses 100 years after (Thematic issue of Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland Deadline for paper proposals: 15th March 2022. “Science, it cannot be too often repeated, deals with tangible phenomena. The man of science like the man in the street has to face hardheaded facts...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary theory,  Novel and 2 more
    Created on: 31.01.2022
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Author Fictions: Literary Authorship and Authorpoiesis in Modern English Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Autorschaftsszenarien sind, so die These dieser Monographie, literarische Schlüsselszenen in der Moderne seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. In ihnen erzählt der Autor fiktional seinen Leser(inne)n von sich selber als Autor des Romans bzw. der Erzählung und...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2021
    American Golden Age Mystery and Detective Fiction, Mean Streets Journal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Submissions Third issue of Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction Topic: AMERICAN “GOLDEN AGE” MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION 1920-1945 Proposals: July 15, 2021 Final essays:...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Narratology and 5 more
    Created on: 30.04.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2021
    Utopie : entre non-lieu et contrée idéale (Quêtes littéraires, n°11, 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel À contributions Quêtes littéraires, n°11, 2021 "Utopie : entre non-lieu et contrée idéale" La notion d’utopie a été créée par Thomas More, chancelier du roi d’Angleterre Henri VIII, ami du philosophe et humaniste...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literary theory and 8 more
    Created on: 26.04.2021
  12. Fabian Lampart
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Deconstruction; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and music/sound studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Comic; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2020
    “Make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em wait”: Sensation, mystery and detection in the Victorian novel (Winter 2020 issue of the ESSE Messenger)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The phrase “Make ’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait” usually ascribed to Charles Reade – an English novelist and dramatist active in the second half of the 19th century – was to become famous after William Wilkie Collins rearranged it as “Make...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.08.2020
  15. Fabienne Vollmer
    University or institution: Universität des Saarlandes (UdS)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Novel; autobiography; Letter; Diary; Literature of the 21st century