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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    Erste internationale Tagung „Literarisches Recycling für postdigitale Leser“. Eine digitale Epistemologie für das Recycling von Literaturen? Digitale Literaturstudien in der Diskussion, Madrid
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Erste internationale Tagung „Literarisches Recycling für postdigitale Leser“. Eine digitale Epistemologie für das Recycling von Literaturen? Digitale Literaturstudien in der Diskussion Fakultät für Philologie, Universidad Complutense de...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Hermeneutics,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Das schlechte Bilderbuch – Zu einer seltenen, aber notwendigen Wertungspraxis in der Kinderliteraturkritik, online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das schlechte Bilderbuch – Zu einer seltenen, aber notwendigen Wertungspraxis in der Kinderliteraturkritik (Zoom-Tagung vom 25.-27.07.2024) In der Praxis der institutionalisierten Kinderliteraturkritik fällt zweierlei besonders...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Hermeneutics and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2023
    Du film au roman, du roman au film : l'affiche pour passerelle (Tours)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’Etudes « Du film au roman, du roman au film : l’affiche comme passerelle » Le jeudi 21 mars 2024 à la Bibliothèque des Cinémas Studio laboratoire ICD (Université de Tours) Les affiches de films sont une...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Intermediality,  Novel
    Created on: 21.12.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women's Fiction, Huelva (Spain)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Seminar Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction University of Huelva, Spain 17-18 October, 2024 Traditional approaches to the ‘origins of the novel’ question in...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 18.12.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period (ESSE Conference, Laussane)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 26-30 August, 2024 Convenors of Seminar 38: Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    REMINDER CFP Conference: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Two-day Workshop at the Department of Literary Studies KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts December 14-15, 2023 Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 17 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Gebaut, gesprochen und geschrieben: Raum, Architektur und Sprache, Bergell/Schweiz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gebaut, gesprochen und geschrieben: Raum, Architektur und Sprache Werkstatt-Tagung, 9. bis 14. September 2024 Tagungsort: Tagungszentrum Villa Garbald, Bergell (GR) / Schweiz https://www.garbald.ch/en/ Organisation ...

    Fields of research Hermeneutics,  Deconstruction,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.09.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.09.2023
    Les arts du roman grec, des textes antiques à leur réception moderne et contemporaine (Pau, France)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Les arts du roman grec, des textes antiques à leur réception moderne et contemporaine ALTER – Équipe 2, « Arts et Savoirs » Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour – Mardi 7 novembre 2023 Appel à communications En 1640, le...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 5 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Cultural Representations of Social Reproduction (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on cultural representations of social reproduction. Social reproduction theory developed from a Marxist-feminist concern for typically-unwaged labor performed outside the traditional workplace, demonstrating how this “invisible”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': Meaning and Metaphor in Moby Dick (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Melville's Moby Dick is a book that defiantly (and perhaps frustratingly) defies a solitary meaning. Indeed, rather than providing readers with a single message in a simple narrative, the text is instead "overflowing" with meaning and the endless...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Hermeneutics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023