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2012 Perkins Prize Committee Now Accepting Nominations

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $400 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.

For books published in 2010, please send inquiries or informal, brief written nominations to the Chair of the judging committee, Professor Suzanne Keen: skeen@wlu.edu.  Please send a copy of the nominated book to each of the Committee members at the addresses listed below.  Publisher, third party, and self-nominations are appropriate.  Deadline for nominations is June 1, 2011.  Books received after June 1 will be at a disadvantage. The winner will be announced at the Seattle MLA Convention in January 2012, and the prize will be presented at the Narrative Conference in Las Vegas in March 2012.  The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $500 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.

Professor Suzanne Keen
Department of English
Washington and Lee University
204 West Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450 USA

Professor Susan S. Lanser
Comparative Literature and English
MS 023
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453-2728 USA

Professor Priscilla Walton
Department of English
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottowa, ON
K1S 5B6
CANADA

 

Call for Papers, MLA 2012 in Seattle

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Call for Papers

Joint Panel of Henry James Society and International Society for the Study of Narrative

For

2012 Modern Language Association Convention

January 5-8, 2012, Seattle, WA, USA

Questions of narrative form were so fundamental for Henry James that it is difficult to consider any work of his without confronting those same questions.  Inversely, Henry James’s work from the start inspired narrative theorists to coin new terms and to modify understandings of already existent ones.  Papers are now being solicited that provide new insights into any number of topics, such as James’s own pronouncements about narrative form and technique; his use of a particular form; the relationship between form and content in a specific work or group of works; his impact on the development of narrative theory.

Abstracts of 500 words and a one page cv should be sent to both organizers on or before March 1, 2011.

Donatella Izzo (donatella.izzo@fastwebnet.it)

and

Irene Kacandes (irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu)

Call for papers, ISSN session at MLA 2012

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Call for 1-2 paragraph proposals for a 15-20 minute paper:

Tone in Narrative

Ways tone is indicated (or not indicated) within a narrative of any kind; how tone prompts affective response and values within a narrative; how tonal cues can vary, destabilizing affective response and ethical evaluation in a given narrative of any kind; how different media and disciplines have their own repertoire of ways to indicate appropriate tonal responses, etc.

Presenters must be members of both ISSN and MLA.

Send proposals as Word or pdf attachments to Molly Hite, mph7@cornell.edu.

Submissions must be received by Friday, February 25.

ISSN special session at the MLA Convention 2011

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

141. New Thresholds of Interpretation? Paratexts in the Digital Age,

5:15–6:30 p.m. on Thursday 06-JAN-11 in Platinum Salon F, J. W. Marriott

The concept of “paratext” has, since its introduction in Genette’s eponymous study, provided a theoretical basis for many fruitful discussions of the way in which a text’s “relations with the public are organized.” An especially interesting thread of research is concerned with the question of how Genette’s framework can be applied to new forms of texts and textuality, and with them, new kinds and functions of paratexts. With the spread of phenomena like dvd special features and mobile storytelling, the distinction between text and paratext has become ever more precarious. New kinds of paratexts may extend fictional universes and thus arguably become part of the text (e.g. backstories, deleted scenes, mobisodes) or circumscribe these universes by foregrounding the artificiality of works (e.g. “making of”, bloopers, director’s commentary). In this panel, we ask: how do we need to extend Genette’s framework in order to account for and analyze the forms and functions of such new paratexts?

Chaired by: Dorothee Birke (University of Freiburg) and Birte Christ (University of Giessen)
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Call for 2009 MLA Panel Proposals

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Please forward proposals for panel ideas for the Philadelphia MLA in December 2009.  The Society has two time-slots for panels in 2009. Deadline: Nov. 15, 2008.  The committee will consider all ideas for panels, including those already submitted, after Nov. 15, 2008. We will notify applicants before the new year so that the process of paper solicitation can begin.

Send brief descriptions of panel concepts to Suzanne Keen @ keens@wlu.edu