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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Medusa: Essays on Different Media
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This call for papers seeks chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures. Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and music/sound studies and 5 more
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2023
    Lovers, Rakes, And Ideal Husbands – Men In Love in Eighteenth-Century Literature | Rom (31.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ISECS Congress, Rome, June 27–30, 2023 The concepts of love and emotion in general both undergo a paradigmatic shift the during the eighteenth century. Whereas the early decades are still dominated by rationalism and a dualism ...

    Fields of research Elegy,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 18.11.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Seminar: Rethinking Lyric Communities, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, March 16-19, 2023)
    Submitted by: Francesco Giusti

    From the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions around the globe, through the envisioning of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in contemporary episodes of political resistance and...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 14 more
    Created on: 20.10.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2022
    Plotting Poetry 5 - Popular Voices ( Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for papers: Plotting Poetry 5 - Popular Voices 4-6 July 2022 – Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu Plotting Poetry is a conference series focussed on computational and statistical approaches for the study of poetic...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.02.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2022
    Call for Papers for Special Issue of Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies on “Myths, Archetypes and the Literary Arts”
    Submitted by: Ankit Raj

    Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791-6553) invites submissions for a special issue of the journal on Myths, Archetypes and the Literary Arts . Ever since humans came into being, stories have been our...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 28.01.2022
  7. Juliane Prade-Weiss
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Elegy; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Tragedy; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.11.2021
    Worte als Waffen. Invektivität in den Transformationsprozessen des 16. Jahrhunderts, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt/hybrid (12.-13.11.2021)
    Submitted by: Isabelle Stauffer

    Die mit gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen verbundenen Erfahrungen von Unsicherheit werden nicht selten durch erhöhte Aggressivität kompensiert. Diese Beobachtung trifft nicht nur für die Gegenwart zu, sondern auch für das 16. Jahrhundert,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 02.11.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Special issue of CompLit: Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, the Journal of the European Society of Comparative Literature, published by Éditions Garnier: European Popular Literatures and Their Sociocultural Implications
    Submitted by: Olga Springer

    The term ‘popular literature’ is characterized by its adjective coming from Latin ‘populāris’ indicating the ‘belonging to the common people,’ as opposed to more privileged social groups. From the viewpoint of cultural history, the three kinds of...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 17 more
    Created on: 22.12.2020
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2020
    L'élégiaque (revue Romantisme)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions « L’élégiaque » Dossier de la revue Romantisme (2022-2) sous la responsabilité d'Aurélie Foglia et Pierre Loubier Nous proposons d’explorer, dans ce numéro de Romantisme , ...

    Fields of research Elegy
    Created on: 13.07.2020
  11. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 09.08.2020
    Masterclass Rilke
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zum dritten Mal organisiert die Fondation Rilke mit Sitz in Sierre in der Schweiz eine ›Masterclass Rilke‹. Sie findet unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Christoph König (Universität Osnabrück), vom 9.-14.8.2020 in der ›Maison de Courten‹ in Sierre...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 3 more
    Created on: 07.02.2020
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Welt in Weimar. Goethes »Römische Elegien« und die augusteische Dichtung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit Johann Wolfgang Goethes Römischen Elegien (1795). Mit dem Gedichtzyklus stellt sich Goethe explizit in die Gattungstradition der augusteischen Liebeselegie (insbesondere Properz und Ovid). Zudem sind...

    Fields of research Elegy,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  13. Francesco Giusti
    University or institution: University of Oxford
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; Italian literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Elegy; Aesthetics; Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century); Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Anhaltender Verzehr. Zur Sprache der Klage
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Klage gehört zu den ältesten poetischen Formen und ist in der Alltagssprache omnipräsent, wirft aber ein grundlegendes hermeneutisches Problem auf: Klagelauten ist keine Ursache des verlautbarten Schmerzes zu entnehmen, artikulierte Klagen...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 5 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Hend Asaad
    University or institution: Ain Shams Universität
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Near Eastern literature; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Literature and media studies; Novel; Narrative; Short prose; Folk literature; Children's and young adult literature; Formula literature; The fictional; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 20th century