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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.10.2023
    The Tropes of Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Organisiert von Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL), Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin) Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  New Historicism and 6 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.07.2023
    Revolte, Gesetz des Geselligen, Publikum: Zum Politischen Imaginären in Literatur und Theorie seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conference Date July 15, 2023 Location Germany Subject Fields Cultural History / Studies,, German History / Studies,, Intellectual History,, Literature Revolte, Gesetz des Geselligen, Publikum: Zum...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 14.07.2023
  4. Joséphine Jacquier
    University or institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Fields of research: French literature; Italian literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Lyric poetry; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  6. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.10.2023
    The Tropes of Theory Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Tropes of Theory Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association Berlin, October 20-21, 2023 Venue: Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  New Historicism,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 17.04.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2023
    Themenheft z.B. Zeitschrift zum Beispiel: Beispielgeben und Erzählen
    Submitted by: Helmut Hofbauer

    Die z.B. Zeitschrift zum Beispiel ist eine Fachzeitschrift, die sich der Erforschung des Beispielgebrauchs in der Moderne widmet. Sie erscheint online als O pen Access-Publikation wie auch als PoD. Die z.B. ist interdisziplinär...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Hermeneutics and 2 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.02.2023
    Johann Elias Schlegel und das Theater: Zwischen Revision und Reform (09.02.-10.02.23)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Johann Elias Schlegel und das Theater: Zwischen Revision und Reform 09.-10.02.2023, Universität Paderborn, Raum E5.333 Programm Donnerstag, 9.2.2023 10.00-10.30h Leonie Süwolto / Sahra Puscher...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Drama,  Tragedy and 2 more
    Created on: 03.02.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2023
    PLAGUE AS METAPHOR
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of "Open Cultural Studies" PLAGUE AS METAPHOR "Open Cultural Studies" (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a topical issue on “Plague as Metaphor,” edited by Nahum Welang...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 19.12.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2023
    International Conference "Modern Arabic Literature – Between Myth and Reality"
    Submitted by: Krzysztof Traba

    We look forward to academics who are interested in issues linked to the relation between myth and reality in the contemporary Arab World, textualization of political, philosophical, social and aesthetic concepts in literary texts, as well as...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 26.11.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Tropes of Adventure (ACLA seminar)
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Seminar at the Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, 16–19 March 2023) In contemporary Western culture, the term ‘adventure’ seems to be applicable to almost everything. While the ‘adventure appeal’ is...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel,  Rhetoric and 1 more
    Created on: 20.09.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    XV. IVG-Kongress 2025: Narrative psychischer Krisen (Graz)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for papers für die Sektion „Narrative psychischer Krisen“ IVG-Kongress 2025: „Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten – Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Chancen der internationalen Germanistik“, 20. bis 27.7.2025, Ort: Graz, Österreich ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Narratology and 6 more
    Created on: 12.09.2022
  13. Annina Klappert
    University or institution: Universität Augsburg
    Fields of research: Media studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Intermediality; Poetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. Christian Haß
    University or institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Fields of research: French literature; Spanish literature; Didactics of Literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Literature and pedagogy; Poetics; Literary genre; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)

  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2022
    Silence de la parole et parole du silence (Jendouba)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université de Jendouba L’Institut Supérieur des Langues Appliquées et d’Informatique de Béja (Tunisie) Le Département des Langues Organise Colloque Multidisciplinaire international Silence de la parole et parole du silence ...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Aesthetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 2 more
    Created on: 10.06.2022