ENSFR 7th Annual Conference Manchester: Landscape and Temporality
Dates: 23-25 October 2023
Our annual conference is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so asap. The deadline is 20 October.
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ENSFR Annual Conference — Manchester October 23-25, 2023: Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality
In The Country and The City (1973) the Welsh cultural theorist Raymond Williams wrote that the landscapes of the country are associated ‘with the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue’, whereas, city is associated with ‘the idea of an achieved centre: of learning, communication, light (p.1. 1973). Williams…
Study Day on Crime Fiction Lille Catholic University, France – 7 October 2022: New Date
Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 May 2022 Modern detective fiction is usually considered to have started with Edgar Allan Poe’s three Dupin short stories and it is certain that the Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand magazine brought the new genre to the attention of the world. Other notable writers who helped shape…
Call for Contributions: Special issue on Thomas Pynchon in Eastern Europe: Translation, Dissemination, Reception
Guest editors: Sergej Macura (University of Belgrade), Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The international reception of Thomas Pynchon’s work has not received much scholarly attention, even though Pynchon is generally recognized as one of the most influential American prose writers of our era. The guest editors of this special issue intend to focus…
ENSFR Annual Conference Lisbon 2022: Short Fiction as World Literature Oct.27-29
Registration is now open for the 2022 ENSFR conference, Short Fiction as World Literature hosted by the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities Centre for Comparative Studies October 27-29th. Keynote Speakers are: Helena C. Buescu (University of Lisbon) Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford) Olivia Michael (Manchester Metropolitan University) To register, please click…
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ENSFR Reading Group
The ENSFR reading group The ENSFR reading group aims to provide a digital space for early career researchers and postgraduate students to come together and discuss classic and new short fiction. The reading group is co-coordinated by Maddie Sinclair (University of Warwick), Paul Knowles (University of Manchester) and Ines Gstrein (University of Innsbruck). The group…