CFP: Essays on Boundries
Contributors are invited for the forthcoming edited collection of essays Boundaries: Critical, Creative and Interdisciplinary methods of Making, Breaking, and Negotiating Boundaries*
The papers presented at the recent 'Boundaries: Critical and Creative' Postgraduate Conference at Loughborough University in June 2006 highlighted the quality of academic research being done which interrogates, acknowledges and challenges boundaries in critical and creative literature. This collection is in part inspired by and, in part, a response to the success of the conference and the wide range of high-quality academic discussion that came from it.
This book has been contracted by Cambridge Scholars press and the anticipated publication date will be autumn 2007. Successful contributors will be expected to submit a 6000-8000 word article (excluding notes) that addresses the ways in which critical and/or creative boundaries apply to their research.
Subjects might include, but are not limited to: Geographical boundaries; Sudden boundaries: Wartime shifts in geographical borders; Cultural boundaries; Boundaries of translation between different languages; Sense/Nonsense; Reason/Unreason; Life, Death and the Afterlife; Exceeding human boundaries: ESP, telepathy, mediumship; Interzones: automata, robots and science fiction; Critical/Creative boundaries; Historical events/fictional depiction; Writing creatively about other cultures; Moral responsibility/creative licence; The literary canon; Literary boundaries: genre; The boundary of the stage in theatre; Transgression of legal boundaries: criminality; Social boundaries: criminals, prostitutes, poets; Class boundaries; The Living space and its boundaries: home, cell, ward; Gender boundaries; Bodies, starvation and the self; Sexual boundaries.
If you would like your paper to be considered for inclusion, please send an email indicating your interest in this project to both J.K.Ramone@lboro.ac.uk and G.L.Twitchen@lboro.ac.uk and we will forward a copy of the submission guidelines. Completed essays should arrive to us no later than November 15th 2006. Accepted contributors will be notified within one calendar month.
Contact details:
Jenni Ramone
Department of English and Drama
Loughborough University
J.K.Ramone@lboro.ac.uk
Gemma Twitchen
Department of English and Drama
Loughborough University
G.L.Twitchen@lboro.ac.uk
