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Displaying results 1 to 14 of 14.

  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Intersectional Crime Fiction: Investigating the Genre (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel examines the continuum of intersectional crime fiction writing in a U.S. context, illuminating the methods, exemplary texts, and narrative strategies that embrace inclusive tenets and movements, from Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+ rights to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Once Upon a Time, You Lied: Narrative and the Moral Crisis (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator,” Maria Semple. The fiction Narrative is domineering; its effect depends on the impact of the emotions intended by the writer or...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Dostoevsky's Women and the Image of the Femme Fatale in the European Novel (NeMLA 2024) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The creative legacy of Dostoevsky left a memorable gallery of extraordinary female characters, from Sonia in Crime and Punishment to Grushen'ka in Brothers Karamazov and Nastasia Philippovna in The Idiot. The proposed session will analyze the complex...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.03.2022
    NeMLA 2022 conference: NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Walking in the Empire
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore) Session Title: Walking in the Empire Session Organizer: Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological University Walkers and walking figure prominently in the literature and literary theory of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Sebald. Again. NeMLA 2022
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sebald. Again. “Certain things, as I am increasingly becoming aware, have a way of returning unexpectedly [unverhofft und unvermutet], often after a lengthy absence,” Sebald writes at the end of the first narration of The...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Novel,  Narrative and 1 more
    Created on: 18.06.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2020
    Mythologies in the 21st Century (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes’s seminal work of social criticism, is a collection of 53 essays written between 1954 and 1956, which were originally published in the French literary magazine, Les lettres nouvelles. Whether he is deriding the...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2020
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Egan, After Postmodernism (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will consider Jennifer Egan’s work in light of the post-90s literary and cultural movements emerging after postmodernism. While these contemporary trends have different names and aims (post-postmodernism, metamodernism, new sincerity,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 06.07.2020
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Henry Miller in New Contexts (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A combination of global transformations within cultural and political perspectives have germinated fresh theoretical approaches to all fields of inquiry. Moving into the third decade of the Twenty-First Century, how does a controversial author like...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 15.06.2020