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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Extending Jouissance: The Excessive and The Transgressive in Contemporary Texts (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jouissance, the iconic Lacanian concept, means “surplus enjoyment,” where excessive pleasure converts into unpleasure and even pain after going beyond the subject’s affective or sensory capacity. Inherited from Freudian psychoanalysis, combined with...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Intermediality,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I am inviting abstracts for a NeMLA 2022 panel I am putting together titled "Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century." This panel explores the interrelations between literary form and genre, spirituality, and...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021