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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value Chair(s): Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford) This panel will look at what is left over in discussions of identity by placing literature in dialogue with...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Speculative Fiction Novella (conference panel) (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the past decade, the novella has re-emerged as one of the dominant forms of contemporary speculative fiction, with both stand-alone debuts and long-running series taking part in the form. This session invites papers that examine the novella form...

    Fields of research Novella
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  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: 29.09.2023
    Revisiting Closet Poets (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Poetry is a perfect medium to explore all of the key issues planned for the 55th Annual NeMLA Convention. The focus of this year’s convention is Surplus, topics indirectly identified on the NeMLA website as “associated with profit and value, but...

    Fields of research Lyric poetry
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spare, (Almost) Never Heir: Girls, Second Sons and Other Fantastic Creatures (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    As much as surplus indicates plenty, it also hints at excess. If the word is applied to people rather than goods, it suggests a denigration of status and even a certain dehumanization. What happens when the word ‘surplus’ is made adjacent to power?...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Lingering Modernisms (NeMLA 55th Annual Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Make it new.” The rallying cry of modernism supposes something which came earlier which is to be reimagined across the literature and arts of the early twentieth century. Ezra Pound’s maxim represents the bridge between the old and the new, as...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    From a Surplus of Time (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Climate change and impending ecological crises make clear, we are running short of time. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that we have until 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5C. Assuming that the status quo endures, at...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Surplus, Scarcity, and the Trials of the Translator (55th Annual NeMLA Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The act of translation is often discussed in terms of possession: what is lost, what is revealed, who can claim ownership of a text, and to what extent. It is possible, however, that a more enlightening conversation around translation theory and...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reassessing Resource Narratives: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Illusion of Surplus (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA session "Reassessing Resource Narratives: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Illusion of Surplus" (55th Annual NeMLA Convention March 7th in Boston, MA). The deadline for submissions is September 30,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Ecocriticism,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    It Takes a Village: Kinship Systems in the Gothic (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From bands of thieves who live and die by honor codes to townspeople neglecting one of their own, the Gothic genre is full of non-normative kin. This panel seeks to collectively reimagine the role of kinship systems in Gothic literature and broaden...

    Fields of research Literary genre,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Romantic Motherhood (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In a time when reproductive rights are under attack and mother’s bodies are increasingly surveilled and regulated by the state, mothers are rendered as “surplus” to the value of the (future) child. How might literary representations in the Romantic...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Narrative Fiction and its Alternatives Forms (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the academic world, there is a constant exploration of new forms, genres, philosophies, and directions—reworking established concepts and creating new ones. While storytelling initially existed in verbal speech and gestures, modern mediums such as...

    Fields of research Literary genre,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 04.08.2023