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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2023
    Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹, Bochum/online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹ »Totgesagte leben länger«, konstatieren Sascha Kiefer und Torsten Mergen (2021) für die deutschsprachige Novelle, die häufig als Relikt einer...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 05.02.2022
    Kleinprosa und Mikroformate, RWTH Aachen (online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mal als ‚prosetry‘, ‚twitterature‘ oder ‚texticules‘ bezeichnet: Kurze und kürzeste Prosatexte und Mikroformate beherrschen die aktuelle Literaturszene. Prägnant und bündig formuliert und nicht selten im kleinen Format publiziert, eignen sie sich...

    Fields of research Novella,  Short prose,  Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment) and 4 more
    Created on: 04.02.2022
  6. 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

  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment To be held at the NeMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, 10-13 March 2022; Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2021 Andreas Gailus has characterized the German...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 5 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2021
    American Golden Age Mystery and Detective Fiction, Mean Streets Journal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Submissions Third issue of Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction Topic: AMERICAN “GOLDEN AGE” MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION 1920-1945 Proposals: July 15, 2021 Final essays:...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Narratology and 5 more
    Created on: 30.04.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020
  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. Jana Volkmann
    University or institution: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French 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; East Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Narratology; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Aesthetics; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

  15. Ursula Kocher
    University or institution: Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Italian literature; South Asian literature; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Novella; Rhetoric; Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 20th century