Registration for ENSFR conference Edge Hill May 2016
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CONSTRUCTING COHERENCE IN THE BRITISH SHORT STORY CYCLE 15-16 October 2015 Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) Patrick Alasdair Gill (Mainz) and Florian Kläger (Würzburg) While the American short story cycle has recently been the object of extensive critical discussion, the same can hardly be said of its British counterpart. Still, thematically unified short story cycles…
Registration is now open for the multi-disciplinary Leonora Carrington Centenary Symposium, in honour of the surrealist writer and artist. Leonora Carrington’s short stories are now republished by Silver Press as The Debutante and Other Stories. Amongst many other treats, the event will include a reading of a specially written story by Claire Dean.
Université de Nantes, France contact email: georges.letissier@univ-nantes.fr ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES ÉTUDES BRITANNIQUES CONTEMPORAINES The Spatial Imaginary in Contemporary British Literature and the Arts 18th- 19th October 2013 University of Nantes (France) http://www.laseac.fr/ The “spatial turn” which was largely initiated by Henri Lefebvre’s work La production de l’espace opened up new perspectives to…
Society for the Study of the American Short Story Call for Papers The American Short Story: An Expansion of the Genre A Symposium of the American Literature Association The Society for the Study of the American Short Story (SSASS) requests proposals for papers and presentations at an international symposium on the short story to be…
Katherine Mansfield and France International conference organised by the Université Paris III —Sorbonne Nouvelle (EA 4398 PRISMES) in conjunction with the Katherine Mansfield Society 19–21 June 2014 Guest speakers will be: C. K. Stead, Sydney Janet Kaplan and Gerri Kimber 2014 seems the ideal year to celebrate Katherine Mansfield’s lifelong attachment to France and her passionate…
Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 6.2 includes articles on plot, on auto ethnography and writing short fiction by practitioners David Jauss, Alex Plasatis and Michael Stewart. There are also critical articles on Maeve Brennan, Angela Carter and Alice Munro, an interview with Kirsty Gunn, book reviews and more.