Short Fiction: Co-texts and Contexts University of Leuven (KU Leuven), 4-5-6 May 2017 Since the emergence of the modern short story as a distinct literary form in the second half of the nineteenth century, many critics and writers have sought to decide what it is exactly that distinguishes the short story from longer fiction, such…
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…
Call for Papers Haunting in Short Fiction and Its Adaptations 20-21 November 2015, University of Angers, France (in collaboration with Edge Hill University, University of Leuven, University of Le Mans, and University of Nantes) There is a long tradition of haunting in short fiction, often appearing in the form of ghost stories, folk tales, fairy…
Call For Papers: (Deadline 1 March 2015) Short fiction writers with a theory: re-reading short fiction theory through the lens of new writing and new media 11-12 June 2015, Université Catholique de Lille, France (In collaboration with the University of Angers, France and the European Network for Short Fiction Research) We are all familiar with…
Reading Short Fiction in Transnational Contexts’ A conference of the European Network for Short Fiction Research School of English, University of Dublin, Trinity College; School of English, Drama, and Film, University College Dublin April 17-18, 2015 Much scholarly work has been done in recent years on the idea of transnationalism in literary studies, but the…