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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.03.2022
    New Perspectives on Rilke and Phenomenology (GSA 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    German Studies Association , Sept. 15-18, 2022, Houston, Texas Rilke’s standing in literary studies is unquestioned, and his work has been particularly influential in the phenomenological tradition. Yet beyond the appropriation of his...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 28.02.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.03.2022
    Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity (MLA conference 2023 Special Session, San Francisco)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP for Special Session at 2023 MLA Annual Convention, held from 5 to 8 January 2023 in San Francisco, CA. Session Title: Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity In this special session, we discuss new meanings and approaches to Poetics...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 4 more
    Created on: 21.02.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2022
    Arendt and Literature (GSA Conference 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Life of the Mind , posthumously published by Mary McCarthy in 1977, Hannah Arendt uses one of Gertrude Stein's most famous lines to show how language operates between thought and sensual experience, as a communicative tool that is...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 14.01.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2022
    Culture Jamming and the Art of Subversion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. The 56th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Coined in the eighties, the term “culture jam” refers to the appropriation by social activists of the linguistic trends characteristic of consumerist capitalist societies. In an effort to disrupt mainstream cultural institutions, culture jamming...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 07.01.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2022
    Nonidentity. Current Configurations in Critical Theories and Poetics, NYU
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Department of German, NYU (April 28-29, 2022) in cooperation with the Department of Comparative Literature, NYU Nonidentity. Current Configurations in Critical Theories and Poetics Submit...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 2 more
    Created on: 10.12.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights (Panel 19345, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore, Maryland), 10th-13th March 2022 The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights Isabella Dr. Ferron (Università “La Sapienza”, Rome) This panel aims to analyze...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 03.09.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2021
    Culture and Crisis: Dallas Goethe Center Symposium, University of Dallas in Irving
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    April 15-16, 2022 University of Dallas in Irving, TX (USA) The Dallas Goethe Center is soliciting papers for its Goethe symposium in April 2022. The symposium will consist of interdisciplinary panels focused on the topic of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021
  10. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 02.08.2021
    Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang: A Virtual Summer Workshop August 2-3, 2021 Organized by Martin Wagner (University of Calgary) and Ellwood Wiggins (University of Washington) Register for this...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 19.07.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: When Poets Write About Poets: Representation(s) of the Poet and Poetry in Poetic Works
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From the very first traces of written poetry, poets have been inspired by their peers: whether with elegies, odes or allusions to the poets they admired, they have always incorporated figures of poets and other poetic texts in their own poems....

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  12. Kitty Millet
    University or institution: San Francisco State University (SFSU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literature from Israel; Near Eastern literature; East Asian literature; South Asian literature; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Didactics of Literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Game Studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; Narrative

  13. Ferdinand von Münch
    University or institution: Colgate University
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Hermeneutics; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Literary genre; Elegy; Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Beate Allert
    University or institution: Purdue University
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; Writtenness; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Ballad; Elegy; Sonett; Other lyrical forms; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comic; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century